# Custom Cost Input
Finout directly supports costs for the major cloud vendors and automatically appear in your MegaBill, but what about smaller vendor costs that are managed manually in spreadsheets?
Finout's Custom Costs feature enables you to add these costs directly to your MegaBill in seconds without any complex integration.
With all your costs in one place, you can get a real-time view of your total technology expenses and accurately assign costs to the appropriate reporting categories. Plus, with Finout's reporting capabilities, you can easily track and analyze all your costs by category, giving you invaluable insights into your spending.
## Adding Custom Costs
Using Finout’s Custom Cost option, you can add a Custom Cost as a one-time expense or a recurring cost for a specific duration.
A cost can be a charge or a refund, and you can tag the custom cost to categorize it. This allows you to view and generate reports based on the relevant categories.
1. Select **Settings**.
2. Select the **Custom Cost** tab.
3. Click **Create Custom Cost**.
4. In the **Choose a vendor** field, either select a vendor or enter a new vendor and click **Add**.
5. Enter an **Amount**. You can enter positive values (for costs) and negative values (for refunds).
6. Enter a **Description** for the custom costs (mandatory).
7. Select a **Tag key** (Project, Team, Features, or Environment) and **Tag value**.
8. To add additional tags, click **+** and select **Tag key** and **Tag value**.
9. Select a date for the cost.
10. If the cost is recurring, simply toggle on the **Recurring** option and specify the frequency of the cost (for example, Every 3 months) and the number of occurrences of the cost.
11. Click **Save custom cost**.
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**Note**: Custom costs may take up to 24 hours to appear in the filters list.
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## Where Can I Use My Custom Costs?
The custom costs can be used to filter (or group) the costs in the MegaBill, in the Dashboards, as well as in the virtual tags. For more information, see [Virtual Tags](https://docs.finout.io/user-guide/inform/virtual-tags).
## Can I Edit an Existing Custom Cost?
As noted above, it may take up to 24 hours for any updates made to Custom Costs to reflect in your account.
1. Select **Settings**.
2. Select the **Custom Cost tab**.
3. For the required custom cost, click **Edit custom cost**.
4. To edit a cost entry, click **Edit custom cost**, double-click on a cost, edit the entry, and then click **Save**.
5. To delete a cost entry, click and then click **Delete**.
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