---
title: "Account and billing"
description: "Your Outpost account, its owner, and where to sign up, choose a plan, add a payment method, read invoices, and cancel."
url: "https://support.outpostplatform.com/account/"
product: "platform"
type: "landing"
status: "draft"
ai_summary: "Landing page for the Outpost account. The account is created in the Outpost portal, where the account owner chooses a plan, adds payment methods, pays invoices, and cancels. The console's Settings > Billing page shows the plan, usage, and invoices to technicians who hold billing:read. Links to every account and billing page."
source: "https://gitlab.com/outpostplatform/docs/-/edit/main/src/content/docs/account/index.md"
license: "CC BY 4.0"
---

# Account and billing

Your Outpost account is the subscription behind your Outpost: who it belongs
to, which plan it is on, how it is paid for, and where it is hosted. This
section is for the person who signs up and pays, and for anyone who has to
explain a line on an invoice.

## The account, the portal, and the console

You deal with your account in two places:

- **The Outpost portal** is where you sign up, choose your plan and your
  Outpost address, add payment methods, pay invoices, and cancel. You sign in
  to it with a code sent to your email address, or with a passkey.
- **The console** is where your team manages endpoints. Its **Settings** >
  **Billing** page shows your plan, the current period's usage, and your
  invoices, so the people who need to read the bill do not need the portal.

## The account owner

The person who completes the sign-up is the account owner, and becomes the
first owner of the console when the Outpost is set up. Only the account owner
can change the plan, manage payment methods and the billing address, edit the
account details, and schedule cancellation.

In the console, owners and any role that holds the `billing:read` permission
can open **Settings** > **Billing**. See [Permissions](/reference/permissions/).

## Start here

- [Create your Outpost account](/account/create-account/): the sign-up wizard,
  step by step.
- [Choose your Outpost address and region](/account/outpost-address/): the
  last step of sign-up, and the one you cannot change later.
- [Sign in to the Outpost portal](/account/portal-sign-in/): sign-in codes,
  passkeys, and sessions.

## Plans and trials

- [Plans and limits](/account/plans-and-limits/): what each plan includes and
  costs.
- [Free trials](/account/free-trials/): how a trial runs and what happens when
  it ends.
- [Home Lab terms](/account/home-lab/): the free plan's rules.
- [Upgrade or change your plan](/account/change-plan/).

## Paying for Outpost

- [Manage payment methods and billing address](/account/payment-methods/).
- [Invoices, taxes, and payments](/account/invoices/): how billing works, the
  invoice statuses, and the console's Billing page.

## Leaving

- [Cancel your subscription and export your data](/account/cancel-and-export/).

## When something goes wrong

- [Troubleshoot sign-up and sign-in](/account/troubleshoot-signup/): the
  messages the sign-up wizard, the address step, and the sign-in page can
  show, with what each one means.