---
title: "Get started with Billing and Usage"
description: "Check your TIR balance, add infra credits on a prepaid account, and find the payment in your statements."
content_type: "get-started"
product: "tir-billing"
platform: "TIR"
url: "/tir/tir-billing/get-started/"
---

# Get started with Billing and Usage

Check your balance, add infra credits, and see the payment in your statements. On a prepaid account,
your instances, VMs, and endpoints run on infra credits, so add them before you launch anything.

## Before you begin

You need to be the account owner. The owner can open every part of **Billing & Usage**, and an
Admin can open only **Account Usage**.

## Check your balance

The top bar of TIR shows your balance. A prepaid account shows **Credits**, your infra credit balance. A
postpaid account shows **Usage**, your usage for the current month, in your billing currency.

Select the balance to see more. On a prepaid account, a balance of zero or less means you need to
add credits to keep using paid services. On a postpaid account, unpaid invoices are separate from this month's
usage. From the balance, you can view your usage, and the account owner can **Add credits** (prepaid) or
**Pay now** (postpaid).

For a fuller picture, open the account menu at the top right and select **Billing & Usage**.
**Overview** shows your balance, recent transactions, and your AutoPay settings.

## Add infra credits

1. Open the account menu at the top right, select **Billing & Usage**, then **Payment & Transactions** in
   the settings menu on the left. You can also select **Add credits** in the balance panel. If your
   billing details or identity verification still need finishing, complete them first with
   **Complete verification**.
2. In **Credits to add**, enter how many infra credits to buy. One infra credit is one unit of your
   billing currency, before GST.
3. Check **Total payable**, the amount you pay, and select **Add credits**.
4. Pay in the checkout that opens. An INR account can pay by card, net banking, e-wallet, or UPI. Any
   other account pays by card.

TIR tells you whether the payment went through. Select **Done**. Your payment is at the top of
**Recent Transactions**, and the **Credits** balance at the top has the new total.

## What to do next

- [Set up AutoPay](/tir/tir-billing/how-to/set-up-autopay/) to buy credits when the balance runs low, so
  your resources keep running.
- [Redeem a coupon](/tir/tir-billing/how-to/redeem-a-coupon/) if E2E sent you a code.
- [Pay now](/tir/tir-billing/how-to/pay-now/) covers postpaid accounts, every payment option, and TDS.
- If a launch is refused for low credits, see
  [Troubleshooting Billing and Usage](/tir/tir-billing/troubleshooting/tir-billing/).