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title: "Overview: 8x8 Cost Center"
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# Overview: 8x8 Cost Center

With **8x8 Cost Center**, you can manage the billing needs of your phone system effectively. Whether you want a single consolidated monthly bill for all your offices, review the phone system cost for each office, create a custom bill, or assign services and assets to your cost center, you can do it all via **8x8 Cost Center**. A cost center allows you to keep track of expenses for each department, site, or location. For example, if your company has offices in multiple geographic locations, you can create a cost center for each site and track the expenses individually.

## Features

- Manage your company’s phone system billing needs efficiently.
- View a single consolidated bill for all your offices.
- View the breakdown cost for each office or department.
- Manage cost centers in a hierarchical manner in line with your organizational structures.
- Create a custom bill by building a cost center tailored to your needs.
- Take advantage of improved bulk update capabilities for cost center management using a CSV template.
- Take advantage of improved asset management for billing using CSV templates.
- Name a contact and payment method for each cost center to better manage billing notifications and statements.
- Assign cost centers at the user level.
- Search users (by name, email ID, and phone number) and assign cost centers to them.
- Search assets (by license ID, and product name) and assign cost centers to them.

## Audience

This guide is intended for **8x8 Cost Center** administrators.

## Availability

**8x8 Cost Center** is available to all new and existing mid-market and enterprise customers. For small businesses, contact your 8x8 sales representative.