Runcost

Invoice

Type
string
Required
Yes, on every row
Added in
FOCUS 1.2
Contract name
invoice_id
Updated

FOCUS column

InvoiceId

The identifier of the invoice the charge was billed on, as issued by the invoice issuer. It ties cost rows to the document finance actually receives and pays, which is what a reconciliation and an audit trail need when a billing period produces more than one invoice.

Example

A billing period with a main invoice and a separate marketplace invoice shows two different ids across its rows.

Where it comes from, per export

The export column that feeds InvoiceId in each format the platform ingests, and the transform applied. A format with no row does not carry the column; the value is then absent rather than guessed.

ExportSource columnTransform
AWS Data Exports, FOCUS
InvoiceId
as is
Azure Cost Management, FOCUS export
InvoiceId
as is
Azure Cost Details (actual cost)Not carried
Azure Cost Details (amortized cost)Not carried
Google Cloud detailed billing exportNot carried

How Runcost uses it

Runcost reconciles to each invoice id, so a period with several invoices still ties out document by document.

Related columns

About this reference

Generated from the column contract and provider rules that Runcost runs, and written by Faisal Saleem, Founder. The normative definitions are in the FinOps Foundation’s FOCUS specification at focus.finops.org.

Your bills, in FOCUS, allocated to owners.

Runcost ingests AWS, Azure and Google Cloud exports into this contract and produces statements, forecasts and alerts from it.

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