Apply for monthly invoicing for your client's business

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As a Business Manager admin, you can apply for monthly invoicing as a payment method if your Business Manager has been qualified for it. Monthly invoicing is a payment method available to eligible businesses, which reduces the number of your transactions by letting you pay monthly for your accrued advertising costs. You must manage your ad accounts in Business Manager to qualify for monthly invoicing. 

Before you apply

To apply for monthly invoicing on behalf of your client's business, ensure the following prerequisites are met: 

  • Business Manager role - You must be a Business Manager admin. 
  • Monthly invoicing qualification - Your Business Manager must qualify for monthly invoicing. This means your business’s ad accounts have spent at least $3,000 on LinkedIn Ads in two consecutive months during the last year. If you’re new to monthly invoicing, you must contact LinkedIn support or your LinkedIn Sales Representative to access the monthly invoicing application in Ads Billing Center.
  • Access to client's payment method - You need access to your client's monthly invoicing payment method. If your client already has access to monthly invoicing, they’ll need to share their monthly invoicing payment method with you in Business Manager. If not, they can request access, or you can apply for access on their behalf.

Apply for monthly invoicing

To apply for monthly invoicing on behalf of your client’s business:

  1. Sign in to Business Manager.

  2. Click  Ads | Business Manager  in the upper-left corner of the page and select Ads Billing Center.  

  3. Click Payment methods in the left menu.

  4. Click the Apply for monthly invoicing button.

    • If you’ve previously applied for monthly invoicing, click the  Add icon to the right side of Payment methods. 

  5. Choose My client's business (Shared access) as the entity you’re applying for and select the checkbox to confirm you’re acting in accordance with the LinkedIn Ads Agreement.

  6. Select an option for whether your client has a Business Manager: 

    • If your client has a Business Manager account, you don’t need to apply for monthly invoicing on their behalf. Instead, you can request your client share their monthly payment method with your Business Manager.
    • If your client doesn’t have a Business Manager account or if you’re unsure, you’ll need to apply for monthly invoicing on their behalf.

  7. Complete the application fields, ensuring you include the company’s registered legal name as it appears on legal documents. Your application might be rejected if the registered legal name is not provided. 

  8. Click the Submit application button in the lower-right corner of the page. 

Important to know

If your client will be billed directly by LinkedIn, they should apply for and set up monthly invoicing from their own Business Manager account.

After you apply

After you submit the application, you can check the status from the Payment methods page. If the application is approved, you and other Business Manager admins will receive an email confirming that the application is approved. You can then set up your ad accounts for monthly invoicing by creating invoice setups using this payment method.

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You can learn more with our agency monthly invoicing getting started guide and agency invoicing FAQs.

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