We are happy to announce that bill-to-parent type subaccounts now support (Negative) Account Limits as well as Account Balances!

We updated the bill-to-parent subaccount certificate issuance workflow, providing parent accounts more control over their bill-to-parent subaccounts' certificate spending.

To control a subaccount's spending, the parent account can use one of these options when configuring the bill-to-parent subaccount:

• Set up a negative account limit for the subaccount
  Subaccount can continue to buy certificates until they hit the negative account limit. Once the limit is reached, they need pay off the negative limit to continue buying certificates.
  Note: Negative account limits in bill-to-parent subaccounts do not reflect an account balance against DigiCert, but against the parent account.
• Set up an account balance workflow for the subaccount
  Subaccount must deposit funds to their account before they can begin buying certificates. To continue buying certificates, they must maintain a positive account balance.
  Note: This is a two-step process: set the bill-to-parent subaccount account limit to zero and then, add funds to the account.
• Set up unlimited spending for the subaccount
  Subaccount has unlimited spending and can order as many certificates as needed. For unlimited spending, you now need to use the Unlimited – do not limit spending for this subaccount option.
  Note: Previously, this was how all bill-to-parent subaccounts worked.

Where are these subaccount spending limit settings?

You can configure the negative account limit or set up the account balance workflow when creating the bill-to-parent subaccount. You can also edit an existing bill-to-parent subaccount and configure the negative account limit or set up the account balance workflow.

Managing account balance funds or negative account limit

For the account balance workflow, you can add funds to the account balance on the subaccount details page. Click Add account balance. In the Add balance to subaccount window, add funds to the bill-to-parent subaccount. In the bill-to-parent subaccount, this displays an account balance to track spending. These are not real funds.

For the negative account limit, you can adjust the limit from the Edit subaccount details page. Go to the subaccount details page and click Edit.

For more information, see Configure bill-to-parent subaccount spending limits.