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Changing your billing address

You can change your billing address online for your Lumen local or long distance services. Your change will be effective immediately. To change the billing address for other types of services, you will need to create a billing request to have Lumen update your information.

To change your billing address:

  1. Click Billing, then click Billing Requests.

    Control Center shows open billing requests for your organization, closed billing requests for the past 18 months, and a status for each request: Open, Active, or Closed.
Billing Requests
  1. Click CREATE NEW REQUEST.
Create New Billing Request (showing billing accounts)
  1. Use the radio buttons to select the billing account number you want to create a request for, then click CONTINUE.
Create New Billing Request (showing billing request dispute types)
  1. Under the What is your billing request? heading, select the Billing Name/Address/Contract/PO Change radio button.
  1. From the Dispute Type list, select Billing Account Name or Address Change.
Create New Billing Request (after selecting Billing Name/Address/Contract/PO Change)
  1. To change the information on your bill, do the following:

    • If you need to update only the name on the account, type the new name in the New Billing Account Name field.

    • If you need to update only the address on the account, type the new address in the New Billing Account Address field.

    • If you need to update both the name and address, fill in both fields.
  1. Select the bill date for the invoice showing the incorrect information.
  1. In the Describe the billing request field, add any additional information that would be helpful for Lumen to process your ticket.
  1. If you have an internal tracking number or description for your organization, type it in the Customer Tracking ID.
  1. To fill in the contact information, do one of the following:

    • If you'd like to the be primary contact for this ticket, verify your contact information in the fields. (If the information isn't correct, you may want to update the information in your Control Center profile after you submit this request to save typing updates for each request you submit.)

    • If you'd like someone else to be the primary contact for this request, type their contact information in the fields on the left.

    • If you'd like to be the primary contact, but want an additional contact to be listed, verify your information in the fields on the left and type the information for the secondary contact in the fields on the right.
  1. Click SUBMIT.

    Control Center submits your billing request and gives you a request ID; you can now track its status. A Lumen billing specialist will update your request within 72 hours; Control Center changes the status from Open to Processing. (If you don't receive an email, check and change your Control Center notification settings to receive alerts.)