When you enter new payment information for a Google product or service, we save it for you in a payment profile. The next time you buy something through Google, you can reuse the information in the payment profile, or you can create a new one. Any payments profile you create or are invited to manage is associated with your Google Account.
Google payments profiles keep information, including the following:
- Name, address, and the tax ID of who's responsible for the profile, when required legally
- Credit cards, debit cards, bank accounts, and other payment methods you’ve used to buy through Google in the past
- Receipts and other information about past transactions
- Subscriptions and recurring payments
- Business subscriptions and recurring payments
- Who you’ve invited to manage your profile
- Merchant payout history and reports
- Merchant tax settings
You can create a payments profile, edit or remove payments profiles, and manage other payments profiles when you’re invited.
Profile types
Important: For some business products, like Google Ads, you may find Account type = "Organization" instead of "Business."
When you create a new payment profile, you must choose to set it up for an "Individual" or a "Business." Keep in mind:
- This information must be accurate for tax and identity verification reasons.
- You cannot change the profile type later.
Make sure to choose the profile type below that best fits how you plan to use your profile:
- Individual: If you’re using your account for your own personal payments, choose this payments profile type.
- Business: If you’re paying or accepting payments on behalf of a business, organization, partnership, or educational institution, choose this payments profile type.
When you check out with some Google products, you can create another profile. If you have the option to create a new profile, you’ll be asked to enter your payment information when you sign up.
When to create multiple profiles
If you’re using your profile for personal payments only, we recommend you only create one payments profile to manage all of your Google purchases from a single place.
You might want to create another profile if:
- You want to have separate personal and business profiles tied to your Google Account.
- You want to manage profiles for more than one business or organization.
- You want to have profiles in multiple countries. Note: You may have to create a new profile when changing countries.
Update, remove, manage, or leave a payments profile
Update payments profile nameUpdate your name in Settings
- Sign in to Settings.
- Next to “Name,” click Edit
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- If you can’t update your name, click Change name.
- Follow the steps to complete the name change form.
- If you can’t update your name, click Change name.
- Enter your updated name.
- Click Save.
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Complete the name change form
To update your verified name in your payments profile, you may need to provide more info and documentation to re-verify your name. If you can’t update the name field in Settings:
- Below your name, click Change name.
- Click Start name change.
- To enter your info and upload documents, follow the on-screen instructions.
Troubleshoot change name issues
If you can’t update your payments profile name with the steps above, fill out a form to request a payments profile name update.
You can edit a profile you created or are an admin on by following these steps:
- Sign in to the Payments profile.
- If you have more than one payments profile:
- On the top left of the page next to your name, click Down arrow
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- Choose the profile you want to edit.
- On the top left of the page next to your name, click Down arrow
- Click Settings.
- To edit information, click Edit
- Click Save.
.To remove a business payments profile, follow these steps to close it first.
Note: Merchants cannot remove their profiles.
To accept an invitation to manage a payments profile, follow these steps:
- Open your invitation email, then click Review and accept.
- Review the information and make sure it’s accurate.
- Click Accept.
Follow these steps to remove yourself as a user of someone else's payments profile:
- Sign in to the payments profile.
- On the top left of the page next to your name, click Down arrow
- Choose the profile you want to leave.
- Click Settings, then click Manage payments users.
- Next to your name on the user management card, click Down arrow
- Click Remove and confirm you want to be removed.