A paying manager is a manager account that controls monthly invoicing billing setups used by the Ads accounts beneath it in a manager account hierarchy.
Users with standard, admin and billing-only access that are signed in to the paying manager (or any manager account above it) can view invoices, edit budgets and perform billing transfers for Ads accounts under that manager. Although one Ads account can be linked to multiple manager accounts, the billing setup for that Google Ads account is managed by only one of those manager accounts. That’s because a single Google Ads account can only have one active billing setup, and therefore one Paying Manager, at any given time.
You can find the paying manager name and ID for a Google Ads account by navigating to the Billing tab.
- In your Google Ads account, click the Billing icon
.
- Click Settings.
- At the top, you'll find the paying manager account name and the account ID.
You can also find the paying manager name and ID for all your linked Google Ads accounts by adding the Paying manager column to the "Budgets page" of your manager account.
- In your Google Ads manager account, from the page menu on the left, click Accounts.
- Click Budgets in the left menu.
- Click the columns button
to modify your table columns.
- Under Budgets, select "Paying manager" and click Apply.
- In your table, you can now find the "Paying manager" column for all your linked Google Ads accounts.
