Ad Manager billing setup

If you're setting up a Google Ad Manager 360 account, see 360 billing setup instead.

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Ad Manager requires publishers who exceed the impression thresholds for display, video, or mobile apps, to enter into a paid contract in order to pay for the additional impressions. 

Once you sign up for billing, you will be charged for the additional impressions when you exceed an impression threshold. The billing cycle will be from the month you sign up. You will not be charged for previous months.

If you're not an admin user, you may see an alert in Ad Manager that indicates there are problems with your account. If this is the case, please contact your administrator.

Invalid or no payment method

Invalid payment method

If there's an invalid payment method on file, ad serving will stop 30 days after Google is unable to process payment. Update your payment method or contact your bank to avoid interruption in ad serving.

To update your payment method:

1. Navigate to Billing  Invoice settings.
2. Under "How you get paid", click Add payment method.
3. Update the existing payment method or add a new one.
4. Click Save.

You must have permission to view and modify payment methods to complete these steps successfully. If you are unable to navigate to the "Invoices" page, inform your Ad Manager administrator. 

No payment method

If you haven't added a valid payment method, you'll receive a warning when you've exceeded the threshold for free impressions. If you continue to exceed the free impression thresholds without adding a payment method, your account will be converted to read-only mode, and may ultimately be suspended—at which point your ad serving may cease. You can restore access by signing up with a valid payment method or contacting Google support.

Paid contracts

If you are currently in the process of negotiating or considering another paid contract with Google, please contact your Google sales representative prior to signing up for billing. In some cases, Google sales may work with you to configure an order form with specific features or rates. If this is the case, it will be reflected in the order form that you see in the sign-up flow.

Add a payment method for the first time

1. Sign in to Google Ad Manager.
2. Click Billing  Sign up. You can view rate cards applicable to your region and enter a payment method so that we can charge you if you exceed your free impression threshold.
3. Read the "Welcome" page and click Continue.
4. Select the region where your billing address is located and your currency from the drop-downs, then click Continue. If your country is not listed, contact your Account Manager for assistance. 
5. Review your fee schedule and rate card, then click Accept and Continue when ready.

Payments profile

6. Enter your Google payments profile information. You can use your payments profile to make and receive payments for any Google service, including Ad Manager.
   • You can change the Google payments profile associated with this Ad Manager account using the dropdown.
   • Any changes you make in the following steps will apply to all Google products that share the selected profile.
7. Click Done. You've now successfully completed the billing setup process.
   • If you already had a Google payments profile and you made updates to the settings on this page, your profile will be updated accordingly.
   • If you didn't have a Google payments profile before completing these steps, a new profile is created.

If your account has been configured to receive monthly invoices, you will not be asked to enter a payment method, and instead, the Billing page will indicate a pending screen until the billing setup is completed by Google. This usually takes 24-48 hours.

_{* Some currencies may not be supported in certain geographic regions, and will be gradually rolled out.}

Avoid exceeding impression thresholds

• Reduce your number of unfilled impressions.
  • Generate a yield report and click Unfilled Impressions to see which ad units are responsible.
  • Run an Ad Exchange opportunities report to determine whether Ad Exchange or AdSense can compete for these impressions.
• Determine whether the unfilled impressions are actually being rendered on the page. Check your site for implementation errors (for example, calling multiple ad units in a page header, rather than in the body). Misplaced Google Publisher Tag (GPT) code results in ad calls but no ads being delivered, so fix or remove broken GPT code from sites.
• Remove ad units that are used purely for tracking purposes, such as 1x1 pixels, to reduce billable volume. Contact your account manager about using Audience Solutions or Google Analytics to achieve similar functionality.
• Increase the volume of inventory for which Ad Exchange, AdSense, or AdMob can compete. This can maximize your yield, and ensure that impressions monetized by Ad Exchange or AdSense are not billed.
• Trafficking Ad Exchange/AdSense/AdMob line items using dynamic allocation rather than as Network/Price Priority/House ensures that these do not count toward paid impressions.

Free impression thresholds

If you are using the free version of Ad Manager, you may serve the following impression thresholds without being charged:

Non-video ad units

Video ad units

For video, there is a monthly limit of 800,000 regardless of your location.