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# Setting up billing
Setting up billing, invoices and the payment method in AdPage.
Billing in AdPage is arranged per company. Every company has its own invoice details, its own payment method and its own list of invoices. That means each company is billed separately, and an agency that manages several clients can have the invoices for a client go to that client directly instead of through the agency.
Before the first invoice can be sent, two things need to be in place: the details that have to appear on the invoice, and the way the invoice gets paid. As long as one of them is missing, you will see a **Not set up** label on that card. Both settings can be filled in by an agency user and by a user of the company itself, so you can agree between you who takes care of it.
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### Open the billing settings
How you get to the settings depends on how you use AdPage.
**As an agency**: go to your **Clients** overview and click the **settings icon** behind the company you want to arrange billing for.
**As a client**: go to your **Containers** overview and click the **settings icon** behind your container.
The settings screen opens on the **General** tab, where you manage the company name and the members. Switch to the **Billing** tab. Everything about invoicing and payment is in this one place.
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### Fill in the invoice details
The **Invoice details** card holds the address and VAT number that appear on the invoices for this company. Click **Edit details** to fill them in.
Take a moment for this, because these details end up on every invoice for this company. An invoice with the wrong company name, address or VAT number is often unusable for bookkeeping, and correcting it afterwards is more work than getting it right the first time. If you are an agency filling this in on behalf of a client, use the client's official company details, not your own, unless you have agreed that you will be invoiced yourself.
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### Add a payment method
The **Payment method** card determines how invoices for this company are paid. Click **Edit method** to add one. You can pay by credit card or by direct debit.
Once a payment method is active, the card no longer shows **Not set up** and invoices are collected automatically. Do keep an eye on the expiry date of a credit card: an expired card is one of the most common reasons a payment fails.
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### Viewing your invoices
Below the two cards you will find the **Invoices** section. Every invoice for this company appears here with its date, invoice number, status and amount.
As long as no invoice has been generated for this company yet, you will see the message that no invoices are available yet. That is not an error, it simply means there is nothing to bill yet.
### Good to know
* Billing details are per company. Setting them up for one company does not arrange them for your other companies.
* The **Not set up** label is a signal, not an error. It only means that part of the billing has not been completed yet.
* Do you not see the Billing tab? Then your user probably does not have sufficient rights within this company. Ask a colleague with more rights to arrange it, or contact our support team.
* Changing invoice details only affects invoices that are created from that moment on. Invoices that have already been sent stay as they are. If something is wrong on an invoice you already received, contact our support team.
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