Parent and Child Accounts
Gotransverse account hierarchy enables billing accounts to be linked in parent-child relationships for reporting purposes and usage allocations pooling (refer to Usage Allocation Pools). An account hierarchy is headed by one parent account, which has one or more associated child accounts. The parent - child relationship is only used for reporting purposes.
The Enable Account Hierarchy Management Account system setting must be set to True to enable the creation of account hierarchies. Refer to System Settings for more information about how to configure system settings in the Admin application.
After an account hierarchy relationship is configured, you can take advantage of usage allocations pooling. In this feature a parent account combines service usage of child accounts, and the service usage can be distributed among the child accounts as needed.
Refer to the Account Hierarchy Knowledge Base article for more information about account hierarchy.
Refer to the following topics for additional information about child accounts: