When creating a subaccount, the current authenticated user must have the billing.accounts.update IAM permission on the parent account, which is typically given to billing account administrators. This method will return an error if the parent account has not been provisioned for subaccounts.
HTTP request
POST https://cloudbilling.googleapis.com/v1/billingAccounts
Optional. The parent to create a billing account from. Format: - billingAccounts/{billing_account_id}, for example, billingAccounts/012345-567890-ABCDEF
Request body
The request body contains an instance of BillingAccount.
Response body
If successful, the response body contains a newly created instance of BillingAccount.
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