Balance reminders
Understand alert thresholds and recovery.
In Billing, enable email reminders and choose an early threshold (default $5). These best-effort messages use the verified account email when the reminder policy is active. Empty accounts without Live fee or top-up history are not emailed merely for being empty.
Stages are actual balance B at or below the early threshold, B ≤ $1, B ≤ $0, first B < 0, and credit exhaustion B+C ≤ 0. C defaults to $0; approved credit may be $0–$10. Only B+C > 0 permits new Live issuance alongside project readiness. Unpaid requests reserve no commission and do not change B. Existing settlement can continue past the stop threshold.
An actual credited top-up rearms a recovered stage; editing credit or notification preferences does not. The early email has a 24-hour cooldown; urgent stages are independent. Crossing several new stages in one change produces the most urgent new stage. Staying low does not generate daily repeats. A top-up cannot retract an email already in transit.
Use Billing to inspect actual balance and fund it using current treasury instructions. Emails are not an availability guarantee. See account notification API.