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A billing account is created when you sign up to use Azure. You use your billing account to manage your invoices, payments, and track costs. You can have access to multiple billing accounts. For example, if you signed up for Azure for your personal projects. You could also have access through your organization's Enterprise Agreement or Microsoft Customer Agreement. For each of these scenarios, you would have a separate billing account.
Azure portal supports the following type of billing accounts:
Microsoft Online Services Program: A billing account for a Microsoft Online Services Program is created when you sign up for Azure through the Azure website. For example, when you sign up for an Azure Free Account, account with pay-as-you-go rates or as a Visual Studio subscriber.
Enterprise Agreement: A billing account for an Enterprise Agreement (EA) is created when your organization signs an Enterprise Agreement to use Azure. An EA enrollment can contain an unlimited number of EA accounts.
Microsoft Customer Agreement: A billing account for a Microsoft Customer Agreement is created when your organization works with a Microsoft representative to sign a Microsoft Customer Agreement. Some customers in select regions, who sign up through the Azure website for an account with pay-as-you-go rates or an Azure Free Account might have a billing account for a Microsoft Customer Agreement as well.
Microsoft Partner Agreement: A billing account for a Microsoft Partner Agreement is created for Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) partners to manage their customers in the new commerce experience. Partners need to have at least one customer with an Azure plan to manage their billing account in the Azure portal. For more information, see Get started with your billing account for Microsoft Partner Agreement.
To determine the type of your billing account, see Check the type of your billing account.
A scope is a node within a billing account that you use to view and manage billing. It's where you manage billing data, payments, invoices, and conduct general account management.
Some scopes are created automatically. For example, when you sign up for Azure with a Microsoft Online Services Program agreement, a billing account is created for you. This billing account contains a subscription. The subscription is the scope where you manage billing data, payments, and invoices.
Other scopes are created manually. For example, when you have an Enterprise Agreement, you can create departments and accounts which are billing scopes.
For more information about scopes, see Understand and work with scopes.
You might see a subscription created for an EA enrollment that appears in both the EA Account billing scope and also under the MOSP billing scope. Viewing it in both places is intended. For EA enrollment account owners, when a MOSP billing scope gets created, all of the subscriptions under the enrollment account are shown under the MOSP account. Although there's a single subscription, you can view it in both places.
If you don't have access to view or manage billing accounts, you probably don't have permission to access. You can ask your billing account administrator to grant you access. For more information, see the following articles:
Scope | Definition |
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Billing account | Represents an agreement that a customer accepts to use Azure. It contains one or more subscriptions. |
Subscription | Represents a grouping of Azure resources. Invoice is generated at this scope. Other billing information such as payment methods and usage address is associated to this scope. |
Scope | Definition |
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Billing account | Represents an Enterprise Agreement enrollment. It contains one or more departments and accounts. Invoice is generated at this scope. |
Department | Optional grouping of accounts to segment costs into logical groupings and set budget. |
Account | Represents a single account owner. Account owners have permissions to create and manage Azure subscriptions that are billed to the enrollment. |
Scope | Tasks |
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Billing account | Represents an agreement that a customer accepts to use Microsoft products and services. It contains one or more billing profiles. |
Billing profile | Represents an invoice and the related billing information such as payment methods and billing address. It contains one or more invoice sections. |
Invoice section | Represents a grouping of costs in an invoice. Azure subscriptions and other purchases such as Azure Marketplace and App source products are associated to this scope. |
Scope | Tasks |
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Billing account | Represents a partner agreement to manage customers' Microsoft products and services in the new commerce experience. It contains one or more billing profiles and customers. |
Billing profile | Represents an invoice for a currency. |
Customer | Represents a customer for a Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) partner. Azure subscriptions and other purchases such as Azure Marketplace and App source products are associated to this scope. |
Reseller | Reseller that provides services to a customer. It's an optional field for a subscription and is applicable only for Indirect providers in the CSP two-tier model. |
Sign in to the Azure portal.
Search for Cost Management + Billing.
In the overview page, select Switch scope.
Note
You will not see Switch scope if you only have access to one scope.
To view details, select a scope.
Sign in to the Azure portal.
Search for and select Cost Management + Billing.
If you have access to just one billing scope, select Properties from the left menu.
The Type value on the Properties pane determines the type of your account. It can be Microsoft Online Subscription Program, Enterprise Agreement, Microsoft Customer Agreement, or Microsoft Partner Agreement. To learn more about the types of billing accounts, see View your billing accounts in the Azure portal.
If you have access to multiple billing scopes, select Billing scopes from the left menu, and then check the type in the Billing account type column.
If you have questions or need help, create a support request.
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