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title: "Reconcile your Grafana Cloud invoices | Grafana Cloud documentation"
description: "Explanation of how to reconcile Grafana Cloud invoices"
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# Reconcile invoices

To reconcile the dollar amounts on your invoices with those on the Billing/Usage dashboard, set the dashboard time-picker to *a few hours after midnight UTC at month end*. This is necessary because the billing script that generates the final bill runs *after* month end (UTC), and the metrics used to render dollar amount panels on the dashboard (for example, `grafanacloud_org_metrics_overage`) are written from the results of the billing script.

> Note
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> The bill itself is calculated with data taken from exactly midnight at month start to midnight at month end (UTC). As an example, the underlying raw usage metric `grafanacloud_instance_active_series` is an input to the billing calculation, and is queried from exactly month start to month end (UTC) by the billing script.