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Managing your payment profiles

You can use payment profiles to assign payment methods that are different than your default payment method to pay your invoices automatically. If you receive invoices from more than one Amazon service provider ("seller of record"), use payment profiles to assign a unique payment method for each one.

After you create a payment profile for a service provider, your payment profile pays your Amazon bills automatically by using the payment method that you specified, as long as your payment profile uses the same currency as the invoice and the selected payment method is eligible for automatic payments.

For example, you receive an invoice from Amazon Europe for 100 Euro (EUR). If you create a payment profile for Amazon Europe and select the EUR currency, your payment profile will automatically pay your bill from Amazon Europe by using the payment method selected in your payment profile.

If the currency for a payment profile isn't the same as your invoice, Amazon ignores your payment profile and will charge your default payment method instead.

Payment profiles are useful in avoiding situations such as incomplete payments, failed subscription orders, and unprocessed contract renewals despite having a valid default payment method. When you use payment profiles, you can do the following:

  • Use different payment methods for different Amazon Web Service providers

  • Customize your payment preferences for your Amazon Organizations member accounts that use different service providers

  • Consistently have valid payment methods for your automatic bill payments

  • Avoid service interruptions and incomplete balances

Note

Because some country and technological limitations, not all payment methods are available for all providers. If your default payment method isn't valid for different service providers, create payment profiles by using the payment methods that are accepted by your service provider. For more information, see Creating your payment profiles.

Creating your payment profiles

You can create new custom profiles using the following steps in the Billing and Cost Management console.

To create payment profiles

  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 under Preferences, choose Payment methods.

  3. Under the Payment profiles section, choose Visit payment profiles.

  4. Under the Payment profiles section, choose Create payment profiles.

  5. Choose a service provider that matches your invoice.

  6. Choose a payment currency that matches your invoice from your service provider.

  7. (Optional) Enter a name for your payment profiles.

  8. Under the Payment method section, choose the payment method to pay your specified service provider and currency with.

    • To add a new payment method

      1. Choose Add a new payment method to open a new tab.

      2. Add a new payment method to your account. For more information, see Managing Your Payments.

      3. Return to the Create payment profile tab.

      4. Under the Payment method section, choose the refresh icon.

      5. Choose the new payment method that you created.

  9. Choose Create payment profile.

Note

Check that your payment profile currency matches the currency of your invoice for the same service provider.

This section shows an example of how to create a payment profile for the bills that you receive from the Amazon Inc. service provider. In this example, your Amazon Organizations management account is with Amazon Europe (shown as "Amazon EMEA SARL" as the service provider). Your default payment currency is Euro (EUR).

If you have a valid default payment method on file, you can pay your Amazon Europe invoices automatically. Examples of a valid payment method include a credit card and a SEPA direct debit account. For more information, see Managing your payments in Amazon Europe.

For your Amazon Inc. invoices, you can create a payment profile to pay using a EUR currency credit card that's eligible for Amazon Inc.

To create a payment profile for this Amazon Inc. example

  1. Open the Amazon Billing and Cost Management console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/billing/.

  2. In the navigation pane under Preferences, choose Payment methods.

  3. Under the Payment profiles section, choose Visit payment profiles.

  4. Choose Create payment profiles.

  5. For Service provider, choose Amazon Inc.

  6. For Currency, choose EUR - Euro.

  7. (Optional) Enter a name for your payment profiles (for example, My Amazon Inc. payment profile).

  8. Under the Payment method section, choose the payment method to pay your specified service provider and currency with.

  9. Choose Create payment profile.

After this payment profile is created, your Amazon Inc. invoices are paid automatically using EUR currency and the payment method that you specified.

This section shows an example of how to create a payment profile for the bills that you receive from the Amazon Europe ("Amazon EMEA SARL") service provider. In this example, your Amazon Organizations management account is with Amazon Inc. Your default payment currency is US dollars (USD).

If you have a valid default payment method on file, you can pay your Amazon Inc. invoices automatically. Examples of a valid payment method include a credit card and a US bank account for ACH direct debit payments. For more information, see Managing Your Payments.

For your Amazon Europe invoices, you can create a payment profile to pay using a USD currency credit card that's eligible for Amazon Europe.

To create a payment profiles for this Amazon Europe example

  1. Open the Amazon Billing and Cost Management console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/billing/.

  2. In the navigation pane under Preferences, choose Payment methods.

  3. Under the Payment profiles section, choose Visit payment profiles.

  4. Choose Create payment profiles.

  5. For Service provider, choose Amazon EMEA SARL.

  6. For Currency, choose USD - US dollar.

  7. (Optional) Enter a name for your payment profiles (for example, My Amazon Europe payment profile).

  8. Under the Payment method section, choose the payment method to pay your specified service provider and currency with.

  9. Choose Create payment profile.

This section shows an example of how to create a payment profile for the bills that you receive from the Amazon Brazil ("Amazon Web Services"/> Serviços Brasil Ltda.") service provider. In this example, your Amazon Organizations management account is with Amazon Inc. Your default payment currency is US dollars (USD).

If you have a valid default payment method on file, you can pay your Amazon Inc. invoices automatically. Examples of a valid payment method include a credit card and a US bank account for ACH direct debit payments. For more information, see Managing Your Payments.

For your Amazon Brazil invoices, you can create a payment profile to pay using a Brazilian real (BRL) currency credit card that's eligible for Amazon Brazil.

To create payment profiles for this Amazon Brazil example

  1. Open the Amazon Billing and Cost Management console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/billing/.

  2. In the navigation pane under Preferences, choose Payment methods.

  3. Under the Payment profiles section, choose Visit payment profiles.

  4. Choose Create payment profiles.

  5. For Service provider, choose Amazon Web Services"/> Serviços Brasil Ltda.

  6. For Currency, choose BRL - Brazilian real.

  7. (Optional) Enter a name for your payment profiles (for example, My Amazon Brazil payment profile).

  8. Under the Payment method section, choose the payment method to pay your specified service provider and currency with.

  9. Choose Create payment profile.

Editing your payment profiles

After you create a payment profile, you can edit the details by using the Billing and Cost Management console at any time.

To edit a payment profile

  1. Open the Amazon Billing and Cost Management console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/billing/.

  2. In the navigation pane, under Preferences, choose Payment methods.

  3. Under the Payment profiles section, choose a payment profile and choose Edit.

  4. Update your payment profile and choose Save changes.

Deleting your payment profiles

You can delete your payment profiles by using the Billing and Cost Management console at any time.

To delete a payment profile

  1. Open the Amazon Billing and Cost Management console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/billing/.

  2. In the navigation pane, under Preferences, choose Payment methods.

  3. Under the Payment profiles section, choose Visit payment profiles.

  4. Choose a payment profile, and then choose Delete.