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# How to automatically trigger a monthly billing report
Exivity enables customers to generate summaries of the cloud spend on a schedule. You may choose to publish a report of your resource usage and costs quarterly, monthly or daily.\
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This article guides you through the steps of publishing a monthly report:\
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In order to trigger the publishing automatically, you must use the [Workflow engine](/data-pipelines/workflows.md).
1\. Navigate to the **Data Pipelines** > **Workflow** menu and select *Workflows*.
2\. Click **Create Workflow**.
3\. Provide a meaningful name and description.
4\. Click **Add Schedule**.
4.1. The **Type** selection should be monthly.
4.2. Furthermore, the interval field **Run Every** should be set to *1 Month*.
4.3. Select the start date (**Effective from**), **Start time** and **Time zone**.
5\. Click the **Add Step** button and set the type to *Publish report*.
6\. Choose your report from the drop-down list.
7\. The **Timeout** setting allows you to choose the interval of waiting, before trying to execute this step again, in the event of a failure.
8\. Finally, click **Create**.
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In combination with the [Notification engine](/administration/notifications.md), you can receive your monthly report on a notification channel (for example: *email*).
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