About payments profiles

• Who pays: The name and address of the person or company legally responsible for account costs.
• What you pay with: The payment methods that you use to pay for ads. You can access this in a separate page.
• Tax details: Your tax status, country and ID.
• Contacts: The names and contact details for people who are on the profile.
• Document language: In some countries, you can choose the language for your billing and payment documents. If language selection isn’t available, the official language of the billing country will be used.

Your profile will be set up automatically when you create your Google Ads account if using either automatic or manual payments. To create a payments profile on monthly invoicing, contact us.

How it works

Payments accounts

A payments account is part of your payments profile. It holds the settings for your Google Ads billing and payments activity. You might see this called an 'invoice set-up' or 'billing set-up' and is only for customers on monthly invoicing. If your account is on monthly invoicing, you can change your payments account by going to the Billing transfers page and clicking the pencil icon , then selecting Change invoice set-up.

Each payments profile can have multiple payments accounts associated with it. You may want to have multiple setups so that you can manage billing and payments for multiple Google Ads accounts. For example, an agency can use multiple invoice setups to manage billing activity for each of their multiple clients.

To request a change of account type (individual or organisation), contact the Google Ads support team.

Instructions

View or edit your profile

To view, edit or check the details of your payments profile, follow the steps below.

Bear in mind that what you can edit in your payments profile depends on your specific payment setting and your billing country.

1. In your Google Ads account, click the Billing icon .
2. Click Settings.
3. Find the 'Payments profile' section where you can view details like your payments profile ID, account type and other details. If you're on monthly invoicing, this section will be called 'Payments profile'.

To edit your payments profile, you can make changes to any field that has a pencil icon , then click Save.

View or edit payments users

Payments users are contacts associated with the payments profile that can have different access levels to the payments profile (for example, admin, read-only and more). Some actions linked to your payments profile may be required by the payments admin.

Find the payments admins in your Google Ads account:

1. In your Google Ads account, click the Billing icon .
2. Click Settings.
3. Find the 'Payments users' section. Click Add a new user or click the drop-down to open existing user information to manage permissions related to the payments profile, including granting or revoking access to make purchases or edit the profile.

Learn more about Manage users in your payments profile.