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# Set Up a Payment Method

Confluent Cloud accepts credit cards, US bank accounts, and AWS
Marketplace billing as payment methods. You must add a payment
method before you can register your Confluent Platform cluster.

Confluent Cloud offers the following payment options:

* Credit Card
* US Bank account
* Integrated billing through AWS Marketplace

With AWS Marketplace billing, your Confluent Cloud usage is added to your existing AWS invoice.
For more information on setting up billing, see [Get Started with Confluent Cloud on the AWS Marketplace with Pay As You Go](../../billing/ccloud-aws-payg.md#ccloud-aws-market) and [Get Started with Confluent Cloud on the AWS Marketplace with Commitments](../../billing/ccloud-aws-ubb.md#ccloud-aws-market-ubb).

## Add a payment method

1. On the **Enter payment information** page, select your preferred payment method.
2. Follow the on-screen prompts for the method that you selected:
   * **Cloud Marketplace**: Verify that your cloud account meets the listed requirements and follow the prompts
     to link the account.
   * **Credit Card**: Enter your card details and click **Save**.
   * **Bank (US Only)**: Enter your bank information and click **Continue**. Follow the Stripe prompts
     to securely link your bank account, and then click **Save**.
3. After you save your payment method, click **Continue** to proceed to network configuration.

## Change your payment method

You can change your payment method at any time. In the Confluent Cloud Console, go to
**Administration** > **Billing & payment** and click the **Payment details and contacts** tab.

## What’s next

* [Configure AWS Private Networking for USM Agents](usm-network.md#usm-network) for AWS or [Configure Azure Private Networking for USM Agents](usm-network-azure.md#usm-network-azure) for Azure

## Related content

* [Unified Stream Manager in Confluent Cloud](../overview.md#cloud-usm-overview)
* [Register Your Confluent Platform Cluster](overview.md#cloud-usm-register)
* [Configure AWS Private Networking for USM Agents](usm-network.md#usm-network)
* [Configure Azure Private Networking for USM Agents](usm-network-azure.md#usm-network-azure)
* [Configure a Service Account for the USM Agent](usm-service-account.md#usm-sa)
* [Deploy the USM Agent](deploy-agent.md#usm-agent)
* [Complete the Cluster Registration](complete-registration.md#complete-registration)
