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New Enterprise accounts have metered billing for Git LFS

Enterprise accounts on GitHub.com, created after June 2, 2024, along with organizations owned by these accounts, have access to the enhanced billing platform. This includes enhanced billing for Git Large File Storage (LFS). Enterprises who participated in the beta program also have access to this platform. Other Enterprise accounts on GitHub.com, and Free, Pro, and Team accounts, will gain access to the enhanced billing platform in the coming months.

The enhanced billing platform transitions Git LFS from a pre-paid, quota-based model (data packs) to a post-paid, usage-based model (metered billing). This new platform offers better spending control and detailed visibility, allowing for a clearer understanding of your usage with more granular controls.

Additionally, GitHub is increasing the free, included amount of Git LFS resources for Enterprise accounts on the enhanced billing platform. They will now receive 250 GiB of storage and 250 GiB of download bandwidth per month at no cost. Beyond these amounts, storage for Git LFS files will cost $0.07 per GiB per month (USD), and download bandwidth will cost $0.0875 per GiB per month (USD).

For more information, visit “About enhanced billing for Git Large File Storage” and “Using the enhanced billing platform for enterprises.”

Questions or suggestions? Join the conversation in the community discussion.

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United States Sales Tax and Exemptions on your GitHub Account

Starting August 19th, 2024, we will begin collecting state-mandated sales tax, where and when applicable, from paying customers in the United States to align GitHub with industry standard regulatory practices. All United States customers are required to update payment information (specifically your address) to ensure the correct sales tax amount is assessed. If you are a paying customer, there will be a tax line on your receipt that provides a breakdown of the applicable taxes for the GitHub products and services you have purchased.

As of today, you will have the ability to make updates on the Payment Information page. Please update your address and provide the following information if applicable:

  • We have updated the address collection fields to require:
    • Street Address
    • City
    • Zip Code +4 (5-digit ZIP required, +4 as optional)
  • If you qualify for an exemption or as a tax-exempt entity, you MUST submit an applicable and fully completed sales tax exemption certificate for review and approval on the Payment Information page.

You will have until August 19, 2024 to make these changes. Failure to do so may result in a disruption of service.

To learn more about how to make updates to your payment information, please click here to view a step by step guide. For more information on how to submit a sales tax exemption certificate, please click here.

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Separate receipts for GitHub Sponsors

Starting Monday, 20th February, 2023, GitHub Sponsors will be processed through a new account. If you're sponsoring through GitHub Sponsors, you will start receiving two receipts for your GitHub payments as we migrate users over to the new Sponsors account. One of these receipts will be for your GitHub Sponsors payments and one will be for any payments you make for other GitHub services.

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New and improved Enterprise Reports now Generally Available

The recently enhanced GitHub Enterprise "consumed licenses" report and new "enterprise members" report are now generally available. These reports provide more insight into who has access to an enterprise, what level of access, and whether a license is consumed:

  • Consumed License Report: A breakdown of license usage for your GitHub Enterprise and any synced GitHub Enterprise Server instances;
  • Enterprise Members Report: An extensive list of licensed and non-licensed members associated with your Enterprise Cloud environment, including members synced from a GitHub Enterprise Server instance.

To learn more about these reports and how to access them, read our documents about viewing license usage for GitHub Enterprise and exporting membership information about your enterprise.

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License sync updates: new Consumed License data, a new License API and license matching improvements (Public Beta)

We’ve made a series of improvements to the GitHub Connect license sync feature in addition to the "Sync now" button we recently added in GHES:

  1. Enterprise administrators can now access a refreshed Consumed License CSV that includes additional data, such as the saml_name_id and the GitHub Enterprise Cloud email address (for verified domains only) for each user;
  2. Enterprise administrators also have access to two new License REST API endpoints:
    a. consumed-licenses: returns the same Consumed License data found in the CSV download
    b. license-sync-status: returns information related to the license sync job status
  3. We improved the license sync matching algorithm for enterprises that use SAML SSO. We now attempt to match Server user accounts against SAML attributes in addition to matching against users' GitHub Enterprise Cloud email addresses. This improvement eliminates the need for enterprise administrators to require users to add their work-related email addresses to their GitHub Enterprise Cloud account.

Learn more about license sync and give us your feedback

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Scheduled billing maintenance

On Saturday November 13, 2021 from 7:00PM to 9:00PM PST, GitHub’s billing systems will undergo scheduled maintenance.

During this time period, certain payment functionalities will be unavailable including:

  • Adding a new payment method or updating existing payment methods
  • Signing up for a new paid GitHub account
  • Upgrading existing account to a new paid GitHub plan
  • Paying invoices
  • Making new Marketplace purchases
  • Adding new sponsorships or changing tiers of existing sponsorships

Thank you for your patience as we work to improve our systems.

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