Compute
Compute account and limits
Understand Compute roles, approvals, rolling limits, and the lowest effective ceiling before accepting chargeable work.
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One account, clear authority
Your Compute account links one identity to an account, organization, and membership. Roles grant specific actions; no role quietly grants every action.
An organization may also share business Macs. Customer access and provider access remain separate grants, even when one person holds both.
Review roles and approvals
Check your member role before accepting a quote or Finance Sync plan. An entitled role may approve account policy, spending changes, or a finance plan.
IT can manage selected Mac setup work when granted. IT cannot read provider earnings amounts or manage Finance Sync. Billing or Finance can manage Finance Sync and permitted earnings views, but cannot deploy Macs or change a payout beneficiary. An Owner alone changes the beneficiary through secure payout onboarding.
Understand the effective ceiling
Your usable spend is the lowest signed ceiling across these checks:
- commercial exposure
- organization limit
- member limit
- API key limit
- accepted quote
- accepted batch
- atomic reservation
Limits may use a rolling 24-hour period, calendar day, week, month, annual period, quote, or batch. The narrowest active rule wins.
Know suspension behavior
At D+1 past due, new chargeable reservations stop. D+14 starts finance review. D+30 sets account suspension for nonpayment.
Suspension still allows billing recovery, invoices, payment status, results, receipts, and documents. It blocks new quote acceptance, runs, and batches.