# Sending invitations
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When you sign in to your organization's management account, you can invite the management account of another organization to designate your account to manage and pay their consolidated bill.

## Considerations
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**Only management accounts can send invitations**

Invitations can only be sent between management accounts.

**Invitations are unidirectional**

Only the account that will manage and pay for the consolidated bill (bill-transfer account) can send invitations. Bill-source accounts cannot send invitations asking other accounts to manage and pay for their consolidated bill.

**Invitations must be accepted before the start date**

Invites must be accepted 24 hours before the billing transfer start date. For example, an invitation with a start date of May 1st, needs to be accepted by April 29th 6:59:59PM Eastern Standard Time (11:59:59 PM UTC), which is two days before the start date.

**Transfers start at the beginning of month**

If an invitation is accepted, the start date is 00:00:00 UTC on the first day of the month specified in the invitation (for Eastern Standard Time this is 7:00 PM on the evening before the first day of the month).

## Send an invitation
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To send a billing transfer invitation, complete the following steps.

**Terms and concepts**  
The following are terms and concepts used in the AWS Billing and Cost Management console:  
**Inbound billing**: Billing transfers that allow you to manage and pay for another organization’s consolidated bill.
**Outbound billing**: Billing transfers that allow an account outside your organization to manage and pay your consolidated bill.

**Minimum permissions**  
To send an invitation, you must have the following permissions:  
`organizations:InviteOrganizationToTransferResponsibility`
`billingconductor:CreateBillingGroup`
`billingconductor:ListPricingPlans`

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**To send an invitation**

1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the AWS Billing and Cost Management console at [https://console.aws.amazon.com/costmanagement/](https://console.aws.amazon.com/costmanagement/).

1. On the left navigation in **Preferences and Settings**, choose **Billing transfers**.

1. On the **Billing transfers** page, select the **Inbound billing** tab.

1. On the **Inbound billing** page, choose **Send invitation**.

1. On the **Send a billing transfer invitation** page, enter the following information:
   + **Name:** Name you want to assign to the transfer.
**Note**  
When you use two-level billing transfer as a bill receiver account, you can control the names only for your direct transfers. The bill transfer accounts control transfer names for their bill source accounts. For distribution partners, we recommend using your downstream sellers' names consistently for each billing transfer. This helps you search for all billing transfers associated with a specific downstream seller.
   + **Email address or account ID of the AWS management account:** Account you want to invite. This must be the management account of an organization.
   + **Monthly billing period start:** Start date when your account will begin managing and paying for their consolidated bills. It can be either the first day of the next month or two months in the future.
**Note**  
The start date is the first day of the month you select. Transfers begin on the start date regardless of the date the invitation is accepted. Invitations expire at 8 PM Eastern Standard Time two days before the start date.
   + **Pricing configuration:** Pricing seen by the *bill-source account* once the transfer begins.
   + **(Optional) Message to include in the request**: Text included in the email sent to the management account. For example, "Hello account owner, I'd like to pay your organization's consolidated bill."
   + **(Optional) Add new tags**: Specify one or more tags that are automatically applied to the inbound transfer. To do this, choose **Add tag** and then enter a key and an optional value. Leaving the value blank sets it to an empty string; it isn't `null`. You can attach up to 50 tags to an inbound transfer.

1. On the **Send a billing transfer invitation** page, choose **Send invitation**.

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**To send an invitation**  
You can use one of the following operations:
+ AWS CLI: [invite-organization-to-transfer-responsibility](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/organizations/invite-organization-to-transfer-responsibility.html)

  ```
  $ C:\>  organizations invite-organization-to-transfer-responsibility \
      --type BILLING \
      --target '[{"Id":"123456789012","Type":"ACCOUNT"}]' \
      --start-timestamp yyyy‑MM‑dd HH:mm:ss.SSS \
      --sourceName "My billing transfer" \
      --notes "Optional notes for the invitation"
      --tags '[{"Key":"exampleKey","Value":"exampleValue"}]'
  ```
+ **`type` (Required)**: `BILLING`.
+ **`target` (Required)**: A `HandshakeParty` object. Contains details for the account you want to invite.

  - `Id`: Email address or account ID of the account you want to invite. For example, `{"Id":"alejandro_rosalez@example.com","Type":"EMAIL"}`

  - `Type`: The type of ID for the participant: `ACCOUNT` or `EMAIL`.
+ **`start-timestamp` (Required)**: Start date when your account will begin managing and paying for their consolidated bill. It can be either the first day of the next month or two months in the future. It must be the beginning of the day (00:00:00.000).
**Note**  
The start date is the first day of the month you select. Transfers begin on the start date regardless of the date the invitation is accepted. Invitations expire at 8 PM Eastern Standard Time two days before the start date.
+ **`sourceName` (Optional)**: Name you want to assign to the transfer.
+ **`notes` (Optional)**: Text included in the email sent to the management account. For example, "Hello account owner, I'd like to pay your organization's consolidated bill."
+ **`tags (Optional)`**: Specify one or more tags that are automatically applied to the inbound transfer. You can attach up to 50 tags to an inbound transfer.
+ AWS SDKs: [InviteOrganizationToTransferResponsibility](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/organizations/latest/APIReference/API_InviteOrganizationToTransferResponsibility.html)

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**What to do next**  
You will receive an email notification if you get a response to your invitation. After you send an invitation you can monitor the status in the AWS Billing and Cost Management console or using the . For more information, see [View invitation](orgs_transfer_billing-view-invitation.md).