docs/content/billing/get-started/introduction-to-billing.md

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Introduction to billing and licensing	Learn about the billing platform's key functionalities, and how they can help you manage your spending more effectively.	feature enhanced-billing-platform	/billing/using-the-enhanced-billing-platform-for-enterprises/about-the-enhanced-billing-platform-for-enterprises /billing/using-the-new-billing-platform/about-the-new-billing-platform-for-enterprises /billing/using-the-new-billing-platform/about-the-new-billing-platform /billing/using-the-new-billing-platform/getting-started-with-the-new-billing-platform /billing/managing-your-billing/about-the-new-billing-platform	Billing Personal account Enterprise Team	Introduction to billing	get-started

Key functionalities

The billing and licensing pages on {% data variables.product.github %} contain views and options to help you understand and manage the cost of using paid products, plans, and subscriptions. Key tasks you can perform are:

• Prevent overspending: Use budgets and alerts to track and control your spending.
• Observe and understand spending: Understand how your spending is distributed across products.
• Estimate future spending: View trends in your spending based on the usage across cost centers (enterprise accounts only) and budgets (all accounts).
• Gather insights and data: Generate usage reports to share with your team or stakeholders, and know if you're on track with your budget.
• Allocate costs to centers: Improve accountability by creating and assigning organizations, repositories, and members to cost centers.

Accessing the billing pages

You can only access billing information for an account where you are an owner, a billing manager, or have equivalent permissions. For more information, see AUTOTITLE.

1. In the upper-right corner of any page on {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom %}, click your profile picture.

   • For personal accounts, click Settings: https://github.com/settings/billing.
   • For organizations, click Your organizations, then next to the organization, click Settings.
   • For enterprises, click Your enterprises, then click Settings.

2. Click Billing & Licensing.

   • For personal accounts and organizations, the option is displayed under "Access" in the side bar. Then click Overview.
   • For enterprises, the Billing & Licensing option is displayed as a separate tab, next to the "Settings" tab.

If you have questions, please contact {% data variables.contact.contact_support_page %}.

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Accessing billing information programmatically

You can use the REST API to download the usage report for a personal or organization account. First you will need to create a fine-grained access token with the permissions defined by the end point, see:

• Get billing usage report for a user
• Get billing usage report for an organization
• Get billing usage report for an enterprise

For more information, see AUTOTITLE.

Next steps

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