Ordering a Google Cloud Platform Subscription

To start using the service, it is necessary to order a Subscription to a Plan. For every Subscription of an Account, a new customer billing account is created on the Google side.

The "Google Cloud Platform" Plan has only one period — endless — so that it is not possible to change the period of a Subscription. A Subscription itself is free, and a customer pays for the consumed resources only. The payment amount is accumulated during the Billing period as resources are consumed.

For the general description of ordering a Subscription, see Buy subscription in the Customer Control Panel Guide. Ordering a Subscription to the Google Cloud Platform service has an additional step for specifying information about a customer billing account:

  1. Billing subaccount name — the value will be used in the customer billing account name as a part of the name template. Up to 36 characters.
  2. Admin email — the email of a user to become the first administrator of the customer billing account. More administrators can be added manually after activating the Subscription.
  3. Domain — the domain name of the customer organization.



When a Subscription is created, the customer account administrator receives 2 messages to the specified email:

  1. An invitation from Google with a link to access Google Cloud Console.
  2. The Subscription activation instruction (see also Google Cloud Platform. "Information" section).

Use the Entry Point menu to manage the Google Cloud Platform Subscription (see Managing a Google Cloud Platform Subscription). Click the Entry Point to access Google Cloud Console (see Accessing Google Cloud Console).