If you’re like me, you can’t stand forwarding erratic Google Ads invoice emails to your accounting department. These invoices seem to come in at all times for unusual amounts and who can help but miss 1 or 2 or 10 of these, resulting in a glaring eye and a million questions from your finance person. Rightfully so, mind you. the problem here isn’t accounting, it’s Googles “proprietary” way of doing things.

Anyways, the point is that it will make your life, AND accounting’s life, much easier if Google Ad invoices are being sent directly to their finance inbox. Cut out the middle man, am I right?

It’s Not Called Billing Contact

The first thing you need to get your head around is that the billing contact in Google Ads, is not called “Billing Contact”. Why would it be? I mean it’s not like anything else about Googles UX makes sense. What you’re looking for is “Payment Users”. Obviously.

Here’s How to Add a Payment User

1. Click Billing on the Sidebar.
2. Click Setting at the bottom of the secondary menu that pops up.
3. Click “Payment Users” in the table that pops up.
4. Click “Add a new user”

I know what you’re thinking: “I don’t want the finance department in there mucking around!” Don’t worry. Despite this looking like, and sounding and telling you that it’s adding a user. This will only result in them sending your finance department invoices/receipts. UNLESS you open up the permissions drop down and give them access to other things. Don’t do that, except for maybe “Edit payments profile”.

What you should do is set up some email preferences here. I always just set it to “All payment emails”.

Google Ads Billing Contact Added

Despite the added hassle, and having to answer some questions from accounting about why they’ve been added as a user, you’ve saved yourself a headache in the long run. You get to run Google Ads and your finance department received the receipts so they can keep you from forcing the company into crippling debt, just because you forgot to put a decimal point into your daily budgets.