Add developer account users and manage permissions

There are 3 different access levels in Play Console: account owner, admins, and users. Your admission level determines what actions you can perform and what information you lot can access in Play Console. As an admin (administrator), user management allows you to safely control which parts of Play Console your wider team can encounter based on their roles, what data they accept admission to, and the settings they can change.

Account access levels

Type Clarification
Business relationship owner
  • First registered the account in Play Console
  • Has full admission to Play Console
  • Tin can invite and remove users, and manage individual permissions
  • Is the just person who can have a linked payments profile to sell paid apps
  • Is the only person who tin edit information on the Payments Settings page in Play Console
  • Is the only person who can edit Developer Profile information in Play Console
  • Is the only person who tin edit API admission details in Play Console

Admin
  • Has the "Admin (all permissions)" permission
  • Can be given access to all or specific apps
  • Can invite and remove users, and manage individual permissions
  • Doesn't demand to pay the $25 registration fee
User
  • Can have dissimilar levels of access to Play Panel
  • Can be given admission to all or specific apps
  • Can't invite users or edit permissions
  • Doesn't need to pay the $25 registration fee

Give users access

Footstep 1: Decide whether your user needs account or app admission

Earlier you ready permissions, you need to decide if your user needs access at account level or at app level:

  • Account: Account permissions utilize to all apps in your developer account.
  • App: App permissions only utilize to the selected app.

Some permissions are exclusively available for app or account level users only. For details on how business relationship and app access might bear on a specific permission differently, you can check the permission definitions and uses department below.

Step two: Add users and turn permissions on or off

If you're an account owner or admin, yous tin can add users to your Play Panel business relationship and manage permissions across all apps or for specific apps. Before calculation users and turning permissions on or off, review the permission definitions and uses department below to ensure that you empathise them.

  1. Open Play Console.
  2. On the left menu, go toUsers and permissions.
    • To add together new users, get to Invite new users.
    • If you're managing permissions for an existing user, click anywhere on the user'southward row in the user tabular array.
  3. Enter the user's e-mail address, and set an admission expiry appointment if necessary and you accept the Admin (all permissions) permission at business relationship level. Annotation that:
    • Users tin can only sign in to Play Panel with a Google account using the aforementioned e-mail address that you invite.
    • If you lot don't choose an access expiration date, the user has ongoing admission to the Play Console business relationship or app.
  4. Choose what permissions to apply to specific apps using the App permissions tab, or what permissions to apply to all apps in your developer account using the Account permissions tab.
    • To add an app to the permissions table, get to Add app under the App permissions tab, and then go to Utilise.
  5. Select Invite user.

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Permission definitions and uses

General permissions

Admin (all permissions)

Rights Usage notes
  • Invite users
  • Manage permissions of other users
  • Remove users

This permission gives a user admin access. With this permission, an admin also gets all other permissions.

  • If this permission is set per app, the admin can encounter all users with permission to access the aforementioned apps. Per-app admins tin't remove users with global access.
  • If this permission is set to global, the admin can too change access expiration dates and review changes made to Play Panel using the Activity log.

View app data (read-simply)

Rights

Usage notes

  • Read-merely access to all app data, including whatever associated Google Play games services projects–but not fiscal data
  • To grant access to fiscal data, give users the View financial information permission.
  • This permission is available for users with "App" access only. The "Account" equivalent is View app information and download bulk reports (read-just).
  • For instance: Provide read-only access to LiveOps submissions and reporting data.

View app data and download bulk reports (read-only)

Rights

Usage notes

  • Read-only access to all app data for all apps, including all Google Play games services projects–merely not financial data
  • Download majority reports
  • The user can access whatever new app or game y'all add to Play Console afterwards.
  • The user can view all games, including ones not linked to whatsoever app.
  • To grant access to financial information, requite users the View financial data permission.
  • This permission is available for users with "Business relationship" access only. The "App" equivalent is View app information (read-merely).

Edit and delete typhoon apps

Rights Usage notes
  • Edit and delete existing draft apps
  • This permission doesn't permit users to start the roll-out of a release.
  • This permission is available for users with "App" access merely. The "Account" equivalent is Create, edit, and delete draft apps.

Create, edit, and delete draft apps

View financial data

Rights Usage notes
  • View financial and sales reports
  • Access to the Purchases API
  • View revenue information for whatsoever associated Google Play games services projects
  • This permission is bachelor for users with "App" access only. The "Account" equivalent is View financial data, orders, and cancellation survey responses.

View fiscal data, orders, and cancellation data survey responses

Rights Usage notes
  • View financial reports, sales reports, and orders
  • Access to the Purchases API
  • View revenue information for any associated Google Play games services projects
  • Download written responses to the cancellation survey
  • This permission is available for users with "Business relationship" access but. The "App" equivalent is View fiscal information.

Manage orders and subscriptions

Rights Usage notes
  • View orders
  • Refund orders
  • Cancel subscriptions
  • This permission does not allow users to view amass financial reports. This requires the View financial information permission.

Release to production, exclude devices, and utilise Play App Signing

Rights Usage notes
  • Create, edit, and curlicue out releases to production
  • Unpublish and republish apps
  • Exclude devices in the device catalog
  • Use Play App Signing to sign APKs
  • This permission allows users to publish apps to product on Google Play.

Release apps to testing tracks

Rights Usage notes
  • Upload draft apps
  • Create, edit, and gyre out releases to testing tracks
  • Unpublish and republish apps that were previously published to a testing track
  • Upload and modify .obb files
  • Edit release notes for apps which are not active in product
  • Upload APKs for internal sharing
  • This permission does not allow users to publish apps to production on Google Play.

Manage testing tracks and edit tester lists

Rights Usage notes
  • Alter testing configuration for internal, open up, and closed tracks
  • Manage tester lists and associated users
  • This permission does not allow users to publish apps to product on Google Play.

Manage store presence

Rights Usage notes
  • Edit store listing information (including text and images) and perform shop listing experiments
  • Edit pricing, in-app products, and pricing templates
  • Edit distribution data, including content rating
  • Create and edit promotions or sales
  • Manage saved device filters in the device catalog
  • Create and edit LiveOps
  • This permission does not allow users to exclude devices in the device catalog.

Respond to reviews

Rights Usage notes
  • Reply to reviews on Google Play
  • Modify the contact data used in suggested replies
  • Users without this permission tin still view ratings and reviews, only can't reply to them.

Managed Google Play permissions

Create and publish individual apps to your organization

Rights Usage notes
  • Create, edit, and publish private apps which are simply available to users within your organisation.
  • This permission applies to individual apps using Managed Google Play, and does not permit users to manage internal testing tracks, or publish public apps on Google Play.

Google Play games services permissions

Edit Google Play games services projects

Publish Google Play games services projects

Rights Usage notes
  • Publish new Google Play games services projects for all apps
  • Unpublish and republish existing projects
  • This permission is available for users with "Business relationship" level access only.
  • Users also need permission to admission the game in the Google Developers Console.

Manage user admission

Account requirements for invited users

When users are invited to access Play Console, they must sign in with a Google business relationship using the same email address that the admin or Play Console account owner invited. Users can create a Google account using a new Gmail address (@gmail.com), or with an existing email address, such every bit a company e-mail address.

If an invited user needs to access Play Console with a unlike email address, they need to contact the admin and ask them to reissue an invitation with the preferred e-mail address.

If a user does not accept an invitation and sign in within 30 days, the invitation will expire and the admin volition demand to reissue an invitation.

View sent invitations

After you send an invitation, the user's email address will be listed with the status "Invite sent." If the user's admission has an access expiration date, it will exist included in their invitation. When the user accepts the invitation, the account owner will become a confirmation email and the user'south status will change to "Active."

Update account expiration dates

If you're the account possessor, here'southward how you can update users' access expiration dates:

  1. Open Play Console.
  2. On the left menu, go toUsers and permissions.
  3. Become toManage users on the top-right of the user tabular array, and go toSelect users to extend access expiry from the drib-downward carte du jour.
  4. In the tabular array, select the users whose admission y'all want to extend, and click Extend admission.
  5. Choose how long you want to extend access for, and click Extend access.
  6. Select Confirm to relieve your changes.

You tin can also update a user's access expiration dates individually:

  1. Open up Play Console.
  2. On the left menu, click Users and permissions.
  3. Click anywhere on the user'south row in the user tabular array.
  4. On the User details page, bank check the box side by side to "Prepare access death."
  5. Enter an access expiry date or choose one using the calendar.
  6. Save changes.

Remove users

If y'all're the account owner, here'south how you can remove users' access:

  1. Open Play Console.
  2. On the left card, get toUsers and permissions.
  3. Select Manage users >Select users to remove from the drop-down card.
  4. In the table, select the users who you desire to remove, and select Remove.
  5. Relieve changes.

You lot tin can also remove a user'southward admission individually:

  1. Open up Play Console.
  2. On the left menu, become toUsers and permissions.
  3. Click anywhere on the user's row in the user tabular array.
  4. On the User details page, go toRemove user.

Error 403

If you become "Fault 403" inside Play Console, inquire your account owner to grant y'all permissions for that app.

Permissions for integrated features

User permissions for Google Play game services

For a Play Console user to admission Google Play game services information, these requirements must exist met:

Afterwards a Google Play games services project has been created, if y'all add a user to Play Panel or extend an existing user's Play Panel rights to include Edit Google Play games services projects or Publish Google Play games services projects, you'll need to add the user to your Google Developers Console as well.

To add a user to your project on the Google Developers Console:

  1. Sign in to the Google Developers Console.
  2. Select a project.
  3. On the left menu, selectPermissions.
  4. Near the top of your screen, selectAdd Member.
  5. Type the email accost of the user yous added to Play Panel.
  6. Cull a permission level.
  7. SelectAdd.

User permissions for the Google payments centre

For some other user to accept admission to reports on your Google payments center, you need to add together the user on your Google payments center settings. Play Console permissions are separate from any permissions managed inside the Google payments middle.

To add a user to your Google payments centre:

  1. Sign in to the Google payments centre.
  2. On the left menu, selectSettings Settings.
  3. Nether "Payments users," select Manage Payments Users > Add a new user.
  4. Follow the onscreen instructions to add the requested information.
  5. Select Invite.

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