## Billing Management in m3ter Console

The _Billing_ area of the m3ter Console is designed to let you run, view, and manage Bills for your Accounts. You can:

- View Bills for your Accounts.
- Select a billing period, and view Bills for that period.

You can also access and manage for specific Accounts Bills directly from the Bills tab for the Account:

- View the Bills for an Account.
- Open a Bill in Bill Management and view Bill details with a breakdown of charges.

You can also perform common tasks for billing management workflows:

- View and approve a Bill.
- Lock an approved Bill or set a global lock date for all Bills.
- Re-calculate a Bill.
- Re-run billing.
- Add Credit or Debit line items to a Bill.
- Review the Bill History for a selected Account.
- Download Bills.
- Run billing manually by date and billing frequency using a _Run billing_ modal.

You might want Bills to be updated on a regular basis. If so, you can set up scheduling for Bill creation at set intervals as part of your Organization configuration.

### Key Guides
- [Running Bills and Viewing Bill Details](https://docs.m3ter.com/guides/billing-and-usage-data/running-viewing-and-managing-bills/running-bills-and-viewing-bill-details)
- [Managing Bills](https://docs.m3ter.com/guides/billing-and-usage-data/running-viewing-and-managing-bills/managing-bills)
- [Approving and Locking Bills](https://docs.m3ter.com/guides/billing-and-usage-data/running-viewing-and-managing-bills/approving-and-locking-bills-managing-bill-lifecycle)
- [Adding Credit Line Items to Bills](https://docs.m3ter.com/guides/billing-and-usage-data/running-viewing-and-managing-bills/adding-credit-line-items-to-bills)
- [Adding Debit Line Items to Bills](https://docs.m3ter.com/guides/billing-and-usage-data/running-viewing-and-managing-bills/adding-debit-line-items-to-bills)
- [Viewing Bill History](https://docs.m3ter.com/guides/billing-and-usage-data/running-viewing-and-managing-bills/viewing-bill-history)
- [Scheduling Billing](https://docs.m3ter.com/guides/billing-and-usage-data/running-viewing-and-managing-bills/scheduling-billing)
- [Working with Bill Statements](https://docs.m3ter.com/guides/billing-and-usage-data/running-viewing-and-managing-bills/working-with-bill-statements)
- [Bill Line Item Types](https://docs.m3ter.com/guides/billing-and-usage-data/running-viewing-and-managing-bills/bill-line-item-types)
- [Bill Line Items - Default Descriptions](https://docs.m3ter.com/guides/billing-and-usage-data/running-viewing-and-managing-bills/bill-line-items-default-descriptions)
- [Bill Line Items - Mapping to Accounting Products](https://docs.m3ter.com/guides/billing-and-usage-data/running-viewing-and-managing-bills/bill-line-items-mapping-accounting-products)
- [Troubleshooting Bills](https://docs.m3ter.com/guides/billing-and-usage-data/running-viewing-and-managing-bills/troubleshooting-bills)

**Tips:**
- **Encountering Billing Issues?** If you are having issues with Bills - such as a Bill is not generating for an Account or line item and/or total amounts are not what you expect them to be for a Bill, please review the [Troubleshooting Bills](https://docs.m3ter.com/guides/billing-and-usage-data/running-viewing-and-managing-bills/troubleshooting-bills) in this section, which offers a checklist of common billing issues with guidance on how to follow-up on and resolve issues.

- **Reviewing Billing Data?** You can query for Billing data and review the returned data using the [Usage Data Explorer (v2)](https://docs.m3ter.com/guides/data-explorer/usage-data-explorer-v2).

- **End-dating billing entities associated with an Account?** You can end-date the billing entities associated with an end-customer Account - Account Plans, Prepayments, Pricings, and Contracts - from an Account page. This is useful in cases where you need to create new agreements with end-customers - such as for renewals or mid-service term amendments - and for service cancellations. For more details, see [End Dating Account Billing Entities](https://docs.m3ter.com/guides/end-customer-accounts/end-dating-account-billing-entities).