# Custom line items
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Use AWS Billing Conductor to create personalized line items and apply them to designated AWS accounts within a billing group. 

You can allocate costs and discounts by using custom line items. You can calculate a custom line item as a *flat charge* or *percentage charge* value. You can configure the presentation for the **Flat** custom line item by using display settings. You can configure specific services for the percentage custom line items through ChargeDetails.LineItemFilters. You can also set an **Itemized** computation rule for the percentage custom line item to have the custom line item displayed next to each applicable line item. Configure the percentage-based custom line item to include or exclude resources. These resources will include billing group costs and other flat custom line items that are associated with a billing group for a billing period. You can then set the custom line items to apply for one month, or to reoccur for multiple months.

 Custom Line Items will appears in Billing and Cost Management tools such as Bills Page, Cost Explorer and Cost and Usage Records with specific line item types, line item subtypes, or charge types. For Custom Line Items which are presented under Billing Conductor service, the types will be **Fee** or **Credit**, depending on the type of the Custom Line Item. For Custom Line Items which are presented under any other service, or for Itemized Custom Line Items, the types will be **Proforma\$1Fee** or **Proforma\$1Credit** , depending on the type of the Custom Line Item. 

Common use cases for custom line item creation include, but are not limited to the following:
+ Allocating Support fees
+ Allocating shared service costs
+ Applying managed service fees
+ Applying tax
+ Distributing credits
+ Distributing RI and Savings Plans savings (as opposed to On-Demand)
+ Adding organizational credits and discount line items

# Creating a flat charge custom line item
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Use the following steps to create a custom line item that applies either a credit or fee line item to an individual billing group.

**To create a custom line item**

1. Open AWS Billing Conductor at [https://console.aws.amazon.com/billingconductor/](https://console.aws.amazon.com/billingconductor/).

1. In the navigation pane, choose **Custom line items**.

1. Choose **Create custom line item**.

1. For **Custom line item details**, enter the name of the custom line item. For naming restrictions, see [Quotas and restrictions](limits.md).

1. For **Description**, enter a description for the custom line item. The character limit is 255.

1. For **Billing period**, choose either the existing billing period or the previous billing period.

1. For **Duration**, choose either one month or recurring (no defined end date).

1. For **Billing group**, choose a billing group. You can only associate the custom charge to one billing group at a time.

   1. (Optional) For **Allocated account**, you can apply your custom line item to a billing group account of your choice. Your custom line item is applied to the primary account of the billing group of your choice by default.

1. Choose **Flat charge** for your **custom line item type**.

1. Choose a **charge type** and enter an input amount.

   A discount line item adds a credit. This reduces the amount that's charged to the selected billing group. A markup line item adds a charge. This increases the amount that's charged to the selected billing group. All custom line items are in USD.

1. For **Display settings**, choose a service that you want the flat custom line item present in the bills. The default value is `AWSBillingConductor`.

1. Choose **Create**.

# Creating a percentage charge custom line item
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Use the following steps to create a custom line item that applies either a credit or fee line item to an individual billing group.

**To create a custom line item**

1. Open AWS Billing Conductor at [https://console.aws.amazon.com/billingconductor/](https://console.aws.amazon.com/billingconductor/).

1. In the navigation pane, choose **Custom line items**.

1. Choose **Create custom line item**.

1. For **Custom line item details**, enter the name of the custom line item. For naming restrictions, see [Quotas and restrictions](limits.md).

1. For **Description**, enter a description for the custom line item. The character limit is 255.

1. For **Billing period**, choose either the existing billing period or the previous billing period.

1. For **Duration**, choose either one month or recurring (no defined end date).

1. For **Billing group**, choose a billing group. You can only associate the custom charge to one billing group at a time.

   1. (Optional) For **Allocated account**, you can apply your custom line item to a billing group account of your choice. Your custom line item is applied to the primary account of the billing group of your choice by default.

1. Choose **percentage charge** for your **custom line item type**.

1. Choose a **charge type** and enter an input amount.

   A discount line item adds a credit. This reduces the amount that's charged to the selected billing group. A markup line item adds a charge. This increases the amount that's charged to the selected billing group. All custom line items are in USD.

1. (Optional) For **Reference values**, choose the values to include in the calculation. By default, the billing group total cost is selected as a resource. This excludes all flat custom line items.

   1. (Optional) By default, Savings Plans discounts are included. To exclude them from the calculation, select the **Exclude Savings Plans discounts** check box.

   1. (Optional) If you want a specific service charges to be executed by the custom line item, select **Choose the custom values using filters** and input the service code under **Value** section.

1. (Optional) Include one of more flat custom line item. Choose each applicable flat custom line item from the table that you want included in the percentage-based calculation.
**Note**  
You can create percentage custom line items with no associated resources. These custom line items show a `$0.00` value in your billing data.

1. For **Display settings**

   1. You can choose a service that you want the percentage custom line item present in the bills. The default value is `AWSBillingConductor`.

   1. Or you can select **Itemized** to have the custom line item displayed next to each applicable line item.

1. Choose **Create**.

# Viewing the custom line items table
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After you create a custom line item, you can view the details of the line item in a filterable table. You can filter by the following dimensions:
+ The line item name
+ The line item description
+ The amount that's charged
+ The billing group that the line item is attributed to
+ The date that line item was created

To view custom line items that you created in previous billing periods, use the **date picker** dropdown list.

# Editing custom line items
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Use the following steps to edit your custom line items.

**To edit a custom line item**

1. Open AWS Billing Conductor at [https://console.aws.amazon.com/billingconductor/](https://console.aws.amazon.com/billingconductor/).

1. In the navigation pane, choose **Custom line items**.

1. Choose **Create custom line item**.

1. Choose the custom line item that you want to edit.

1. Choose **Edit**.

1. Change the parameters that you want to edit.
**Note**  
You can't change the billing period, billing group, allocated account, charge type (flat or percentage), or charge value type (credit or fee).

1. Choose **Save changes**.

# Deleting custom line items
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Use the following steps to delete your custom line items.

**To edit a custom line item**

1. Open AWS Billing Conductor at [https://console.aws.amazon.com/billingconductor/](https://console.aws.amazon.com/billingconductor/).

1. In the navigation pane, choose **Custom line items**.

1. Choose **Create custom line item**.

1. Choose the custom line item that you want to delete.

1. Choose **delete**.

1. Read how deleting the custom line item might affect you, and then choose **Delete custom line item**.