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vercel-teams-billing skill

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This skill helps you manage Vercel teams, accounts, plans, and spend controls to optimize governance and billing efficiency.

npx playbooks add skill bobmatnyc/claude-mpm-skills --skill vercel-teams-billing

Review the files below or copy the command above to add this skill to your agents.

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---
name: vercel-teams-billing
description: Vercel account, team, and billing management including plans and spend controls. Use when managing teams, accounts, or cost governance on Vercel.
progressive_disclosure:
  entry_point:
    summary: "Vercel account, team, and billing management including plans and spend controls. Use when managing teams, accounts, or cost governance on Vercel."
    when_to_use: "When working with vercel-teams-billing or related functionality."
    quick_start: "1. Review the core concepts below. 2. Apply patterns to your use case. 3. Follow best practices for implementation."
---
# Vercel Teams and Billing Skill

---
progressive_disclosure:
  entry_point:
    summary: "Vercel teams and billing: accounts, plans, spend management, and team settings."
    when_to_use:
      - "When configuring teams or account ownership"
      - "When selecting plans or managing spend"
      - "When controlling billing and usage limits"
    quick_start:
      - "Review account and team settings"
      - "Select a plan that matches usage"
      - "Set spend management policies"
      - "Monitor usage and costs"
  token_estimate:
    entry: 90-110
    full: 3200-4200
---

## Overview

Vercel provides account and billing controls for teams, plans, and spend governance.

## Accounts and Teams

- Manage team membership and ownership.
- Review account settings for security and access.

## Plans and Spend Management

- Select plans based on usage needs.
- Configure spend management and limits.

## Complementary Skills

When using this skill, consider these related skills (if deployed):

- **vercel-security-access**: RBAC, SSO, and access controls.
- **vercel-overview**: Onboarding and platform setup.

*Note: Complementary skills are optional. This skill is fully functional without them.*

## Resources

**Vercel Docs**:
- Accounts: https://vercel.com/docs/accounts
- Plans: https://vercel.com/docs/plans
- Spend management: https://vercel.com/docs/spend-management
- Notifications: https://vercel.com/docs/notifications

Overview

This skill manages Vercel accounts, teams, plans, and billing controls to help teams govern cost and access. It centralizes tasks like membership and ownership administration, plan selection, and spend limit configuration. Use it to standardize billing policies and monitor usage across teams and projects.

How this skill works

The skill inspects team and account settings to report ownership, membership roles, and security-relevant configuration. It evaluates active plans and usage patterns to recommend plan changes and to suggest spend-management controls such as hard limits or alerts. It can produce concise action items for adjusting team roles, updating plans, and enforcing cost controls.

When to use it

  • Onboarding or restructuring teams to verify owners and member roles
  • Choosing or upgrading a Vercel plan to match projected usage
  • Setting spend limits, alerts, or usage policies to avoid overages
  • Auditing account and team settings for cost governance
  • Coordinating billing ownership and payment methods across teams

Best practices

  • Audit team ownership and roles regularly to reduce orphaned privileges
  • Align plan selection with historical usage and expected growth to avoid over-provisioning
  • Set tiered spend controls: alerts first, soft limits next, hard limits last
  • Document billing owners and renewal dates to prevent service interruptions
  • Combine spend controls with monitoring to surface anomalies quickly

Example use cases

  • A platform team reviews all Vercel teams to consolidate billing under a single payer account
  • A dev team evaluates current usage and upgrades from Hobby to Pro for predictable build minutes
  • An engineering manager applies spend alerts and a soft limit before a new marketing campaign launch
  • A security lead audits team membership to ensure only approved owners can change billing settings
  • Finance creates a monthly report of Vercel spend per team and flags unexpected spikes

FAQ

Can this skill change billing ownership or payment methods?

It helps identify current ownership and recommends steps, but actual payment method changes must be performed through Vercel's billing interface with the authorized account owner.

Will it prevent unexpected costs automatically?

It can configure spend management guidance and recommend or flag limits. Enforcement depends on Vercel account capabilities and administrative approval for hard limits.