Add developer business relationship users and manage permissions

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

Account access levels

Type Clarification
Account possessor
  • Starting time registered the account in Play Console
  • Has total access to Play Console
  • Can invite and remove users, and manage private permissions
  • Is the simply person who can take a linked payments profile to sell paid apps
  • Is the only person who can edit information on the Payments Settings page in Play Console
  • Is the but person who can edit Developer Contour data in Play Console
  • Is the only person who can edit API access details in Play Console

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

Requite users access

Step 1: Decide whether your user needs account or app access

Before yous set up upwards 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 programmer business relationship.
  • App: App permissions only apply to the selected app.

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

Stride 2: Add users and turn permissions on or off

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

  1. Open Play Panel.
  2. On the left carte du jour, go toUsers and permissions.
    • To add new users, become to Invite new users.
    • If yous're managing permissions for an existing user, click anywhere on the user's row in the user tabular array.
  3. Enter the user's email accost, and set an admission expiry date if necessary and you accept the Admin (all permissions) permission at business relationship level. Note that:
    • Users can just sign in to Play Console with a Google account using the same e-mail address that yous invite.
    • If you don't choose an access expiration date, the user has ongoing access to the Play Console account 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 nether the App permissions tab, and then get to Employ.
  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 besides gets all other permissions.

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

View app data (read-only)

Rights

Usage notes

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

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

Rights

Usage notes

  • Read-only access to all app information for all apps, including all Google Play games services projects–only non fiscal data
  • Download majority reports
  • The user can access any new app or game you add together to Play Panel after.
  • The user can view all games, including ones not linked to any app.
  • To grant admission to financial data, give users the View fiscal information permission.
  • This permission is bachelor for users with "Business relationship" admission just. The "App" equivalent is View app information (read-only).

Edit and delete draft apps

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

Create, edit, and delete draft apps

View financial information

Rights Usage notes
  • View financial and sales reports
  • Access to the Purchases API
  • View acquirement information for any associated Google Play games services projects
  • This permission is available for users with "App" admission 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 "Account" access simply. The "App" equivalent is View financial data.

Manage orders and subscriptions

Rights Usage notes
  • View orders
  • Refund orders
  • Cancel subscriptions
  • This permission does non allow users to view aggregate financial reports. This requires the View financial data permission.

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

Rights Usage notes
  • Create, edit, and roll out releases to product
  • 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 production on Google Play.

Release apps to testing tracks

Rights Usage notes
  • Upload typhoon apps
  • Create, edit, and roll out releases to testing tracks
  • Unpublish and republish apps that were previously published to a testing rails
  • Upload and alter .obb files
  • Edit release notes for apps which are not active in production
  • 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
  • Change 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 production on Google Play.

Manage shop presence

Rights Usage notes
  • Edit shop listing information (including text and images) and perform store listing experiments
  • Edit pricing, in-app products, and pricing templates
  • Edit distribution information, including content rating
  • Create and edit promotions or sales
  • Manage saved device filters in the device itemize
  • Create and edit LiveOps
  • This permission does non permit users to exclude devices in the device catalog.

Reply to reviews

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

Managed Google Play permissions

Create and publish individual apps to your arrangement

Rights Usage notes
  • Create, edit, and publish private apps which are only bachelor to users inside your arrangement.
  • This permission applies to private apps using Managed Google Play, and does not let 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 admission but.
  • Users also need permission to admission the game in the Google Developers Console.

Manage user access

Business relationship requirements for invited users

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

If an invited user needs to access Play Console with a dissimilar e-mail accost, they demand to contact the admin and inquire them to reissue an invitation with the preferred email address.

If a user does not accept an invitation and sign in inside 30 days, the invitation will elapse and the admin volition need to reissue an invitation.

View sent invitations

Later you send an invitation, the user's electronic mail address will exist listed with the condition "Invite sent." If the user'south access has an access expiration date, information technology will be included in their invitation. When the user accepts the invitation, the account owner will go a confirmation email and the user'south condition will change to "Active."

Update account expiration dates

If you lot're the account owner, here's how you lot tin can update users' access expiration dates:

  1. Open Play Panel.
  2. On the left bill of fare, go toUsers and permissions.
  3. Go toManage users on the height-right of the user table, and go toSelect users to extend admission decease from the drop-down carte.
  4. In the table, select the users whose access you want to extend, and click Extend access.
  5. Choose how long you lot want to extend admission for, and click Extend access.
  6. Select Confirm to relieve your changes.

You tin can too update a user'due south access expiration dates individually:

  1. Open Play Console.
  2. On the left menu, click Users and permissions.
  3. Click anywhere on the user'southward row in the user table.
  4. On the User details page, check the box side by side to "Set up access expiry."
  5. Enter an access expiry engagement or choose i using the calendar.
  6. Save changes.

Remove users

If yous're the account owner, here's how you can remove users' access:

  1. Open up Play Console.
  2. On the left menu, get toUsers and permissions.
  3. Select Manage users >Select users to remove from the drop-down carte du jour.
  4. In the table, select the users who you want to remove, and select Remove.
  5. Salve changes.

You lot can too remove a user'southward admission individually:

  1. Open Play Panel.
  2. On the left card, become toUsers and permissions.
  3. Click anywhere on the user's row in the user table.
  4. On the User details page, go toRemove user.

Error 403

If you lot get "Error 403" inside Play Console, ask your business relationship owner to grant you permissions for that app.

Permissions for integrated features

User permissions for Google Play game services

For a Play Panel user to access Google Play game services information, these requirements must be met:

After a Google Play games services projection has been created, if yous add a user to Play Console or extend an existing user's Play Console rights to include Edit Google Play games services projects or Publish Google Play games services projects, you lot'll demand to add together the user to your Google Developers Console likewise.

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

  1. Sign in to the Google Developers Panel.
  2. Select a project.
  3. On the left menu, selectPermissions.
  4. Near the peak of your screen, selectAdd together Member.
  5. Type the electronic mail address of the user you added to Play Console.
  6. Choose a permission level.
  7. SelectAdd.

User permissions for the Google payments eye

For another user to have access to reports on your Google payments middle, you lot need to add the user on your Google payments center settings. Play Panel permissions are carve up from any permissions managed within the Google payments eye.

To add a user to your Google payments eye:

  1. Sign in to the Google payments center.
  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 data.
  5. Select Invite.

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