Customizing your Amazon payment preferences - Amazon Billing
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Customizing your Amazon payment preferences

You can use the Payment preferences page of the Amazon Billing and Cost Management console to perform the following tasks for all payment types:

Notes

View your payment methods

You can use the console to view the payment methods that are associated with your account.

To view payment methods that are associated with your Amazon Web Services account
  1. Sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console and open the Amazon Billing and Cost Management console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/billing/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Payment preferences.

Payment methods that are associated with your Amazon Web Services account are listed in the Payment method section.

Designate a default payment method

You can use the console to designate a default payment method for your Amazon Web Services account.

If you receive invoices from more than one Amazon service provider (seller of record or SOR), you can use payment profiles to assign a unique payment method for each one. For more information, see Using payment profiles.

To designate a default payment method
  1. Open the Amazon Billing and Cost Management console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/billing/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Payment preferences.

    Payment methods that are associated with your Amazon Web Services account are listed in the Payment method section.

  3. Next to the payment method that you want to use as your default payment method, choose Set as default.

Note

More information or actions might be required, depending on your payment method. Additional actions might include completing your tax registration information or choosing a supported payment currency.

Remove a payment method

You can use the console to remove a payment method from your account.

To remove a payment method from your Amazon Web Services account
  1. Open the Amazon Billing and Cost Management console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/billing/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Payment preferences.

  3. Ensure that your account has another valid payment method set as the default.

  4. Select a payment method to remove, and choose Delete.

  5. In the Delete payment method dialog box, choose Delete.

Changing the currency to pay your bill

To change the currency that you use to pay your bill, for example, from Danish kroner to South African rand, perform the following procedure.

To change the local currency that's associated with your account
  1. Sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console and open the Amazon Billing and Cost Management console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/billing/.

  2. On the navigation bar in the upper-right corner, choose your account name (or alias), and choose Account.

  3. In the navigation pane, choose Payment preferences.

  4. In the Default payment preferences section, choose Edit.

  5. On the Payment currency section, choose the payment currency you want to use.

  6. Choose Save changes.

Adding additional billing contact email addresses

Use additional billing contacts to contact another person about billing related items impacting your Amazon Web Services accounts. Additional billing contacts will be contacted with the root account contact and alternate billing contact about billing events.

Notes
  • If you use credit or debit cards as your payment method, see Adding or updating alternate contacts.

  • If you have pay by invoice as your payment method, you can use the following procedure to add additional billing contacts to receive emails.

To add additional billing contacts to your account
  1. Open the Amazon Billing and Cost Management console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/billing/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Payment preferences.

  3. In the Default payment preferences section, choose Edit.

  4. For Billing contact email, enter the additional billing contact email messages that you want Amazon to send billing-related email notifications to.

  5. Choose Save changes.