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I manage a few accounts for different clients of mine. Now and then (not often) I get an email about some billing service being discontinued (or perhaps a free

I manage a few accounts for different clients of mine. Now and then (not often) I get an email about some billing service being discontinued (or perhaps a free trial of something has ended). When this happens, I have no idea which account it refers to as the emails provide no details. I just have to cross my fingers and hope nothing goes offline. EDIT: Here's what they look like: http://i.imgur.com/XcatLQm.png http://i.imgur.com/XcatLQm.png AFAIK the account id denoted there as XXX-XXXXX-XXX is some behind-the-scenes account identified that isn't displayed anywhere in the UI. To hunt it down, I would have to log into a google account, then click on the link. Then repeat over and over with a dozen google accounts until I log into the one actually tied to that billing account. Ridiculous.

kyrra 10y ago
Is the id there the billing id listed here[0]? AdWords does something similar but their account ids are sorter. One hack that may work: use + in the name part of your email (ex: name+account@example.com). Gmail at least routes them all to the "name" account. Then you can filter or label as you would like. [0] https://console.cloud.google.com/billing https://console.cloud.google.com/billing
- markdown 10y ago
  > Is the id there the billing id listed here[0]? Looks like you're right. It's still a meaningless number in this context. It's not something I can or should have to memorise. To make it worse, an account can have multiple billing accounts. The suggested hack should work, thanks. Hopefully Google improve the content of their email though. Hacks shouldn't be needed.
boulos 10y ago
Isn't the email sent to you, the billing account holder? That is, if you're the account holder then the (original) To: field in the email headers is the Google Account it's intended for. I agree we could (and should) repeat that, but you shouldn't have to cycle through all your Google Accounts to do so.

kyrra 10y ago

Is the id there the billing id listed here[0]? AdWords does something similar but their account ids are sorter. One hack that may work: use + in the name part of your email (ex: name+account@example.com). Gmail at least routes them all to the "name" account. Then you can filter or label as you would like. [0] https://console.cloud.google.com/billing https://console.cloud.google.com/billing

markdown 10y ago
> Is the id there the billing id listed here[0]? Looks like you're right. It's still a meaningless number in this context. It's not something I can or should have to memorise. To make it worse, an account can have multiple billing accounts. The suggested hack should work, thanks. Hopefully Google improve the content of their email though. Hacks shouldn't be needed.

boulos 10y ago

Isn't the email sent to you, the billing account holder? That is, if you're the account holder then the (original) To: field in the email headers is the Google Account it's intended for. I agree we could (and should) repeat that, but you shouldn't have to cycle through all your Google Accounts to do so.