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trunghau199
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Oct 22, 2026

Billing Profile Disabled (PastDue) despite Amount Due = $0.00 and no active subscriptions

Hello everyone,

I am trying to create a new Azure subscription, but Azure returns the following error:

You can't add a billing profile. Your billing account has a past due balance.

After investigating with Azure Portal and Azure CLI, I found conflicting information.

Current Account Status

  • Billing Account Status: Active
  • Agreement Type: Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA)
  • Account Type: Individual
  • Role: Billing Account Owner
  • No active Azure subscriptions

Billing Profile

Azure CLI returns:

Billing Profile: TWJS-5ASF-BG7-PGB

Status: Disabled

StatusReasonCode: PastDue

Azure Portal Information

Azure Portal shows:

Amount Due: $0.00

Outstanding Balance: $0.00

Payment Method: Active

Overpayment Credit: $0.04

No unpaid invoices are displayed in the portal.

Historical Invoices Found via Azure CLI

I found the following invoices:

G007411389   Amount Due: $4.69   Status: Unknown

G008278248   Amount Due: $17.21  Status: Unknown

G008948077   Amount Due: $16.18  Status: Unknown

G009572675   Amount Due: $16.32  Status: Unknown

What Confuses Me

Azure Portal indicates that there is no outstanding balance.

However, Azure Billing API still reports:

Billing Profile Status = Disabled

Reason = PastDue

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Because of this, I cannot:

  • Create a new Billing Profile
  • Create a new Azure Subscription

Questions

  1. Is it possible that these historical invoices are still causing the Billing Profile to remain in a PastDue state?
  2. Has anyone experienced a situation where Azure Portal shows $0.00 due but Billing API still reports PastDue?
  3. Is there any way to reactivate the Billing Profile without direct intervention from the Microsoft Billing team?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

3 Replies

  • Your billing account is active, but the billing profile is disabled with a PastDue reason, despite the portal showing no balance. Those are different billing objects, so the account’s Active status does not establish that the profile is usable. The historical invoices marked Unknown do not, by themselves, prove an unpaid debt. First, confirm that the portal and CLI are showing the same billing account and profile, then review that profile’s invoices across the relevant date range. Avoid paying historical amounts again without confirmation that they remain outstanding. Open an Azure billing support request and provide the profile identifier, invoice references, timestamps, and redacted portal/API results privately. Ask Microsoft to reconcile the ledger and profile status. Billing support is available without a paid technical support plan. I cannot confirm a self-service reactivation method for this contradictory state.