Information processing apparatus and method using billing destination identification information correlated with user

A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a program for causing a hardware processor to execute a process, the process including:

• receiving user identification information identifying a user from an apparatus that causes the user to input an item of billing destination identification information identifying a billing destination with respect to use of a function in response to reception of a request to execute the function from the user;
• obtaining one or more items of the billing destination identification information from a storage part and causing the obtained one or more items of the billing destination identification information to be displayed on a display of the apparatus as available choices for selection that the user is caused to make by the apparatus, if the one or more items of the billing destination identification information are stored in the storage part in correlation with the user identification information received from the apparatus;
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• causing the apparatus to reject the user logging on to the apparatus if no item of the billing destination identification information is stored in the storage part in correlation with the user identification information received from the apparatus.

An information processing method comprising:

• receiving, executed by a hardware processor, user identification information identifying a user from an apparatus that causes the user to input an item of billing destination identification information identifying a billing destination with respect to use of a function in response to reception of a request to execute the function from the user;
• obtaining, executed by the hardware processor, one or more items of the billing destination identification information from a storage part and causing, executed by the hardware processor, the obtained one or more items of the billing destination identification information to be displayed on a display of the apparatus as available choices for selection that the user is caused to make by the apparatus, if the one or more items of the billing destination identification information are stored in the storage part in correlation with the user identification information received from the apparatus;
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• causing, executed by the hardware processor, the apparatus to reject the user logging on to the apparatus if no item of the billing destination identification information is stored in the storage part in correlation with the user identification information received from the apparatus.