Members of your organization's Owners team can give billing manager permissions to people. Once a person accepts their invitation to become a billing manager for your organization, they can invite additional people to be billing managers.
Note
Billing managers do not use paid licenses in your organization's subscription.
Permissions for billing managers
Billing managers can:
- Upgrade or downgrade between GitHub Free and GitHub Team plans
- Add, update, or remove payment methods
- View payment history
- Download receipts
- View, invite, and remove billing managers
- Start, modify, or cancel sponsorships
In addition, all billing managers will receive billing receipts by email on the organization's billing date.
Billing managers are not able to:
- Upgrade to GitHub Enterprise or downgrade an enterprise account
- Create or access repositories in your organizations
- See private members of your organization
- Be seen in the list of organization members
- Purchase, edit, or cancel subscriptions for GitHub Marketplace apps
- Purchase, edit, or cancel subscriptions for GitHub Copilot Business or GitHub Copilot Enterprise
Tip
If your organization requires members, billing managers, and outside collaborators to use two-factor authentication, the user must enable two-factor authentication before they can accept your invitation to become a billing manager for the organization.
Inviting a billing manager
Note
Enterprise accounts, and organizations owned by enterprise accounts, created after June 2, 2024, have access to the new billing platform. Enterprises that participated in the public preview program also have access to the new billing platform.
If you are on the new billing platform, the process for adding a billing manager is different. See Roles for the new billing platform.
The invited person will receive an invitation email asking them to become a billing manager for your organization. Once the invited person clicks the accept link in their invitation email, they will automatically be added to the organization as a billing manager. If they don't already have a GitHub account, they will be directed to sign up for one, and they will be automatically added to the organization as a billing manager after they create an account.
- In the upper-right corner of any page on GitHub, click your profile picture, then click Settings.
- In the "Access" section of the sidebar, click Organizations.
- Next to the organization, click Settings.
- If you are an organization owner, in the "Access" section of the sidebar, click Billing and licensing.
- Under "Billing management", next to "Billing managers", click Add.
- Type the username or email address of the person you want to add and click Send invitation.
Further reading
- Inviting people to manage your enterprise in the GitHub Enterprise Cloud documentation