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Setting your billing email

Your account's billing email is where GitHub sends receipts and other billing-related communication.

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Setting your personal account's billing email

Your personal account's primary email is where GitHub sends receipts and other billing-related communication.

Your primary email address is the first email listed in your account email settings. We also use your primary email address as our billing email address.

If you'd like to change your billing email, see "Changing your primary email address."

Setting your organization's billing email

Your organization's billing email is where GitHub sends receipts and other billing-related communication.

Only organization members with the owner or billing manager role can access or change billing settings for your organization.

  1. In the top right corner of GitHub, click your profile photo, then click Your profile.
    Profile photo
  2. On the left side of your profile page, under "Organizations", click the icon for your organization.
    organization icons
  3. Under your organization name, click Settings.
    Organization settings button
  4. Under Billing email, type a valid email address. The email does not need to be unique to the organization account.
    Billing email textbox
  5. To confirm your changes, click Update profile.
    Update profile button

Managing additional recipients for your organization's billing email

If you have users that want to receive billing reports, you can add their email addresses as billing email recipients. This feature is only available to organizations that are not managed by an enterprise.

Adding a recipient for billing notifications

  1. On GitHub, navigate to the main page of the organization.
  2. Under your organization name, click Settings.
    Organization settings button
  3. In your organization's Settings sidebar, click Billing.
    Billing settings
  4. Under "Billing management", to the right of "Email recipients", click Add.
    Add recipient
  5. Type the email address of the recipient, then click Add.
    Add recipient modal

Changing the primary recipient for billing notifications

One address must always be designated as the primary recipient. The address with this designation can't be removed until a new primary recipient is selected.

  1. On GitHub, navigate to the main page of the organization.
  2. Under your organization name, click Settings.
    Organization settings button
  3. In your organization's Settings sidebar, click Billing.
    Billing settings
  4. Under "Billing management", find the email address you want to set as the primary recipient.
  5. To the right of the email address, use the "Edit" drop-down menu, and click Mark as primary.
    Mark primary recipient

Removing a recipient from billing notifications

  1. On GitHub, navigate to the main page of the organization.
  2. Under your organization name, click Settings.
    Organization settings button
  3. In your organization's Settings sidebar, click Billing.
    Billing settings
  4. Under "Email recipients", find the email address you want to remove.
  5. For the user's entry in the list, click Edit.
    Edit recipient
  6. To the right of the email address, use the "Edit" drop-down menu, and click *Remove**.
    Remove recipient
  7. Review the confirmation prompt, then click Remove.

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