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Expenses and Costs:Establish and Remove a Finance Trusteeship

Last Updated:Dec 04, 2025

Prerequisites for establishing trusteeship

  1. Your Alibaba Cloud account must have an enterprise name and an enabled credit control identity. If your credit control identity is not enabled, contact your account manager to activate it.

  2. Your Alibaba Cloud account cannot invite an account that is already in a financial relationship. You also cannot invite distributor and virtual carrier accounts.

  3. The enterprise name of your Alibaba Cloud account and the linked account must be identical.

  4. You cannot invite an account with overdue payments. The linked account's Available Credit must be 0 or greater. Also, ensure the linked account does not have any of the following:

    • Unpaid orders or orders awaiting payment

    • Active or pending renewals

    • Active or pending temporary upgrades

Establish a trusteeship

  1. Sign in to your Management Account and navigate to the Account Linking page. Click Invite Account.Invite Linked Account button on the Account Linking page

  2. In the dialog box that appears, enter the ID of the account you want to invite, set a name, and click Next. Enter account ID and nickname in the Invite Linked Account dialog box

  3. Select Trusteeship as the settlement policy, select the confirmation checkbox, and click Next. Select Finance Trusteeship as the settlement policy

  4. A success message appears after the invitation is sent. Invitation sent successfully message

  5. The invited user will receive an email invitation. To accept, they must sign in to the Expenses and Costs Console, navigate to Enterprise Finance > Linked Accounts, and accept the invitation. The trusteeship is established once the invitation is accepted.

Prerequisites for removing a trusteeship

  1. The linked account must not have any overdue payments.

  2. The linked account must not have any unpaid orders, orders awaiting payment, or active or pending orders for renewals with specification change or temporary upgrades.

  3. The linked account must have a valid payment method on file.

Remove a trusteeship

  1. On the Account Linking page, find the account you want to remove and click Unlink. Dissociate button next to a linked account

  2. A confirmation dialog box appears. Confirmation dialog box for dissociation

  3. Review the information, select the confirmation checkbox, and click Unlink to remove the trusteeship.