Clarify pending-invitation license billing excludes usage-based GHE

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Prompt summary - submitted by @lucyji1000

Update the "People who consume a license" page so the pending-invitation billing statement is scoped correctly. Pending invitations consume licenses for volume/standard seat-based GHE but do not consume licenses under usage-based (metered) GHE. Resolve the ambiguity between the standard per-seat license page and the usage-based license page.

What's changed

On the Organizations on GitHub Enterprise Cloud section, the statement introducing pending-invitation billing previously read:

If your enterprise does not use Enterprise Managed Users, you will also be billed for each of the following accounts:

This omitted the usage-based (metered) billing exception. Under usage-based billing, pending invitations to join an organization do not consume a license (as documented on the Usage-based billing for enterprise licenses page and the metered-license-measures reusable).

The statement is now scoped to enterprises that use neither Enterprise Managed Users nor usage-based billing, with an explicit note and a link to the usage-based licenses page.

Why

This resolves an ambiguity between the standard per-seat license page (github-license-users) and the usage-based license page. Volume/standard seat-based GHE bills for pending invitations; metered GHE does not. The previous wording could mislead metered customers into believing pending invitations always consume a license.

Source: Confirmed by Lucy Ji in #licensing-and-copilot-access (July 28, 2026): "On metered GHE, pending invitations don't consume licenses. On volume GHE, they do."

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billing/reference/github-license-users.md	fpt ghec ghes@ 3.21 3.20 3.19 3.18 3.17	fpt ghec ghes@ 3.21 3.20 3.19 3.18 3.17

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