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Resolve Cloud Billing issues | Google Cloud

This document describes some of the Cloud Billing issues you might encounter and provides guidance on how to resolve these issues.

If you're using Google Workspace, see Troubleshoot issues with Google Workspace billing.

If you need help with your Cloud Billing account, Google Cloud offers free Cloud Billing Support to all customers. If you want to talk to a support representative about a Cloud Billing question or a billing-related issue, visit our Cloud Billing Support page for contact options.

Understand why you've been charged

This section describes a few common questions about when you're charged.

Charges that occur more than once a month

For accounts on an automatic payments billing cycle, if your accrued balance exceeds your payment threshold, you're charged on that day. In addition, you're charged on the first day of the next month for any additional costs that you accrue.

For example, if your threshold is €500, you're charged every time that your costs reach €500. So if your costs total €1675 EUR in a month, you're charged €500 three times (3 x 500 = 1500). In addition, you're charged on the first day of the next month for the outstanding balance of €175.

Learn more about automatic payments and threshold billing.

Charges after making a manual payment

If the billing cycle for your Cloud Billing account is set to automatic payments, and you make a manual payment, you might still be charged on your automatic billing cycle. Here are some possible reasons:

If the total of your charges and manual payment is greater than the amount you owe, the remaining balance is added as a credit to your account.

Unrecognized Google Cloud or Google Maps Platform charges

This section describes what you should do if you receive Google Cloud or Google Maps Platform charges that you don't recognize. Your contact options depend on if you have a Cloud Billing account or not.

You have a Cloud Billing account

If the form of payment linked to your Cloud Billing account was charged for Google services that you don't recognize, or you received an unexpected invoice for Google Cloud or Google Maps Platform services, contact Cloud Billing Support.

You don't have a Cloud Billing account

If you were charged by Google Cloud for Google services that you don't recognize, or you received an unexpected invoice for Google Cloud or Google Maps Platform services that you don't recognize, and you don't own a Google Cloud or Cloud Billing account, submit a Cloud Billing Support ticket through the Unknown Google Cloud Charge Inquiry form.

Dispute charges

The process to dispute unauthorized charges depends on your country.

UPI AutoPay in India

If you're a Unified Payment Interface (UPI) user in India and have an unauthorized charge from Google Cloud on your account, follow these steps:

  1. Cancel your UPI AutoPay mandate to prevent further unauthorized charges.
  2. Contact your bank to request a refund.
United States and other countries

Contact your bank to dispute unauthorized charges, which the bank treats as a chargeback.

Your bank notifies Google of the disputed charge, and then Google does the following:

  1. Sends you an email that your dispute was received.
  2. Reviews the details of the dispute and the documentation or evidence you provided.
  3. Submits a decision to your bank, based on the results of that review. This information may agree or disagree with the dispute you filed.

Depending on the decision, you might see one of these changes on your Cloud Billing account:

  1. If Google agrees with your disputed charge: The charge is corrected in your Cloud Billing account. You can see the correction in your transaction history, and you don't need to take any action.

  2. If Google disagrees with the disputed charge, and the card-issuing bank doesn't resolve the chargeback in your favor: The charge won't be returned to you. Your account will remain active.

  3. If Google disagrees with your disputed charge, and the card- issuing bank resolves the dispute in your favor: Your account will have an overdue balance. You can continue service on your account by making a manual payment.

Missing Cloud Billing transactions or documents

Cloud Billing documents and transactions are accessible in the Google Cloud console.

Note: Google Cloud products report usage and cost data to Cloud Billing processes at varying intervals. As a result, you might see a delay between your use of Google Cloud services, and the usage and costs being available to view in Cloud Billing. Typically, your costs are available within a day, but can sometimes take more than 24 hours.

If you can't find a specific document or transaction related to a Google Cloud service or Google Maps Platform API after accounting for reporting delays, contact Cloud Billing Support for assistance.

Resolve service restrictions caused by overdue balances

You might have an overdue balance on your Cloud Billing account if you are late paying your invoice, or there was a declined payment on your self-serve/online account. If you have a delinquent account balance, you might experience service degradation or restrictions that limit your Google Cloud usage. For example, you might experience throttling or be unable to perform actions like:

To restore full platform usage, pay your overdue balance by using the following instructions, depending on whether you have an invoiced or self-serve/online billing account:

Invoiced accounts Self-serve/online accounts

Follow these instructions to resolve declined payments.

Request a refund

If you have unused funds in your account, for example, if you made an early payment and have funds left over, you might be eligible for a refund.

We don't offer refunds in the following cases:

You must be a Billing Administrator on the Cloud Billing account to request a refund.

To request a refund:

  1. In the Google Cloud console, sign in to the Payment overview page for your Cloud Billing account.

    Go to Payment overview

  2. At the prompt, choose the Cloud Billing account that you want to request a refund for. The Billing Payment overview page opens for the selected billing account. If you have a credit on the account, you see the Request a refund button.

  3. Click Request a refund.

  4. Confirm the payment method to receive the refund. Refunds are issued to your original payment method.

    Note: If there's a problem with your original payment method and the refund can't be issued, contact support and provide a valid bank account to receive your refund.

If your refund request is processed, your refund is credited to the payment method associated with the Cloud Billing account.

Viewing credits and adjustments

When Google needs to modify your account balance, you receive adjustments. Adjustments come in the form of credits and debits, which reduce your account balance or create additional invoices you must pay.

If your account is configured for monthly invoicing, you might also receive documents called memos when an adjustment is issued.

Separately, you might also have promotional credits applied to your account. Promotional credits differ from adjustments and are applied to future use charges.

Understand memos and adjustments

Credit and debit memos describe credit and debit adjustments that have been issued to your invoiced Cloud Billing account.

The month a memo is issued can be different from the month the adjustment is applied to your invoice. Credit memos can be applied to a previous, current, or future invoice. For example, a credit memo could be issued in April that documents a credit adjustment applied to a March invoice. Similarly, a credit memo could be issued in May describing a credit adjustment to be applied to your June invoice.

When a credit memo is applied to an invoice, the invoice shows the credit memo amount as an amount paid, reducing the outstanding balance owed on the invoice.

The following table describes how credit and debit memos are reflected in each page, report, or output.

Page, report, or output Description Cloud Billing Documents page

Access documents issued for your Cloud Billing account, where you can view detailed information about individual debit and credit memos and the correlating adjustments.

Cost table report

The Cost table report gives you a detailed, tabular view of your costs by individual invoice. The report lists the individual adjustments so you can see the credit and debit memos applied on the invoice you're viewing. Depending on the type of billing correction issued, adjustment amounts might only appear in the footer of the report. The report doesn't include memos issued but not applied during the invoice period.

Data in the cost table report can be downloaded to CSV.

Billing Reports

In Billing Reports, you can view and analyze your Google Cloud usage costs using many selectable settings and filters. To view billing modifications or adjustments in a billing report, set your Time range to Invoice month. In the report, modifications are labeled Adjustments and appear in the footer of the billing report.

Adjustments are aggregated across all invoices issued for the invoice months you're viewing, so you can see the total of the credit and debit memos applied to all of the invoices issued during the invoice months. The adjustments shown correspond to the invoice, credit memo, and debit memo documents available in the Documents area of the Billing section in the Google Cloud console. The report doesn't include memos issued but not applied during the invoice period.

If you want to analyze your Google Cloud costs after receiving SKU-level corrections, such as a retroactive price adjustment on a previously-billed service, view your costs using a Usage date Time range. When you view costs by usage date, any corrections or charges for late-monetized usage are accumulated, and you don't need to worry about any temporarily incorrect data.

If you want view more detailed information on your corrections, configure your billing report as follows:

  1. Set your report's Time range to Invoice month.
  2. Select a date-based Group by option (for example, Date > Service).
  3. In the report's table, look for any charges with a usage date before the start of the invoice month. These charges are the results of corrections or late-monetized usage.

Data in the billing reports can be downloaded to CSV.

Cost breakdown report

When viewing the Cost breakdown report by invoice month, adjustments are aggregated across all invoices issued for the invoice months you're viewing, so you can see the total of the credit and debit memos applied to all of the invoices issued during the invoice months. The report doesn't include memos issued but not applied during the invoice period.

Data in the cost breakdown report can be downloaded to CSV.

Cloud Billing data export to BigQuery

In your exported data, when adjustments are issued, your export is appended with corrective data. These adjustments fall under one of two categories: billing modifications or corrections.

View invoices, adjustments, and memos applied to your account

Invoices, adjustments, and memos are viewed on the Documents page in Cloud Billing.

  1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Documents page.

    Go to the Documents page

  2. At the prompt, choose the Cloud Billing account you want to view.

On the Documents page:

Look at the details of an invoice or memo

From the Documents table, click the row of the invoice or document that you want to view details for. A dialog opens, showing you document header details including the invoice or memo number, amount, status, purchase order number, and account details.

View promotional credits applied to your account

Promotional credits are viewed on the Credits page in the Billing section of the Google Cloud console.

  1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Billing Credits page.

    Go to the Billing Credits page

  2. At the prompt, choose the Cloud Billing account you want to view.

    The Credits page opens for the selected Cloud Billing account.

The Credits page is a tabular listing of your promotional credits. For each promotional credit, you will see the Credit name, the Status of the credit (available, used, or expired), the Remaining value and Original value, the Type (recurring or one-time), the Credit ID that appears on invoices, the Scope if the credit is restricted to particular services or SKUs, and the Start date and End date.

Discounts are a different category of credits and aren't included on the Credits page. Discount credits include free tiers, sustained use discounts, committed use discounts, spending based discounts (contractual), subscriptions, and reseller margin.

To view the details of the different types of credits that are applied to your Cloud Billing account, both discounts and promotions, view the Billing Reports.

The Credits page is also accessible from the Billing Account Overview page.

Resolving declined payments on self-serve (autopay) accounts

Sometimes payments are declined, and when they are, we might stop running your services until your payment can be processed. You can get your services running again in just a few steps.

  1. Find out the reason for the decline. You can view declined payment information for your billing account on the Transactions page. In your transaction history, you can see the date of the decline, the amount, and, if your bank shared it with us, the reason for the decline. (Keep in mind that Google doesn't decline payments; your bank or credit card institution does.)

  2. Contact your bank or credit card company. If you can't figure out why your payment was declined or if you can't solve the issue, contact your bank or credit card company. Give them the date and amount of the declined payment, and they should be able to tell you what the problem is and help you fix it.

    Note: If you're a customer in India, your card might be declined due to local financial regulations. Learn about resolving declined recurring payments in India.
  3. Re-enable your form of payment. After you've contacted your bank and made sure that the form of payment will work, here's how to re-enable it:

    1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Payment method page.

      Go to the Payment method page

    2. At the prompt, choose the Cloud Billing account you want to manage.

    3. On the Payment method page, find the form of payment and make sure that all of the details are correct for this form of payment.

    4. Below the information for the form of payment, click Fix.

  4. Make a payment. After you've contacted your bank and made sure that the payment method will work, you can make a manual payment. If you're using a bank account, the amount might be subject to a delay in posting.

Note the following:

(Customers in India) Automatic payments declined due to Reserve Bank of India (RBI) regulations

Due to Reserve Bank of India (RBI) regulations, for new Google Cloud accounts, we might be unable to charge you automatically for one of these reasons:

In these cases, you get this error message: Your card does not support automatic recurring payments.

To keep your services running, if your automatic payments are being declined, we recommend one of these options:

Changes to card information stored in Google

Starting October 1, 2022, due to Reserve Bank of India (RBI) card storage regulations, Google can't save your card details in the current format. Depending on your card, you can authorize us to save your card details in a format that complies with RBI regulations.

Learn more about authorizing Google to save your card details in a new format.

Other Cloud Billing issues

If you're stuck and you want to talk to a support representative about a Cloud Billing question or a billing-related issue that you're having, visit Cloud Billing Support for contact options.


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