Reference documentation and code samples for the Google Shopping Merchant Accounts V1 Client class Account.
TheAccountmessage represents a business's account within Shopping
Ads. It's the primary entity for managing product data, settings, and
interactions with Google's services and external providers.
Accounts can operate as standalone entities or be part of a advanced account
structure. In an advanced account setup the parent account manages multiple
sub-accounts.
Establishing an account involves configuring attributes like the account
name, time zone, and language preferences.
TheAccountmessage is the parent entity for many other resources, for
example,AccountRelationship,Homepage,BusinessInfoand so on.
Generated from protobuf messagegoogle.shopping.merchant.accounts.v1.Account
Namespace
Google \ Shopping \ Merchant \ Accounts \ V1
Methods
__construct
Constructor.
Parameters
Name
Description
data
array
Optional. Data for populating the Message object.
↳ name
string
Identifier. The resource name of the account. Format:accounts/{account}
↳ account_id
int|string
Output only. The ID of the account.
↳ account_name
string
Required. A human-readable name of the account. Seestore nameandbusiness namefor more information.
↳ adult_content
bool
Optional. Whether this account contains adult content.
Required. The time zone of the account. On writes,time_zonesets both thereporting_time_zoneand thedisplay_time_zone. For reads,time_zonealways returns thedisplay_time_zone. Ifdisplay_time_zonedoesn't exist for your account,time_zoneis empty. Theversionfield is not supported, won't be set in responses and will be silently ignored if specified in requests.
Required. A human-readable name of the account. Seestore nameandbusiness namefor
more information.
Returns
Type
Description
string
setAccountName
Required. A human-readable name of the account. Seestore nameandbusiness namefor
more information.
Parameter
Name
Description
var
string
Returns
Type
Description
$this
getAdultContent
Optional. Whether this account contains adult content.
Returns
Type
Description
bool
hasAdultContent
clearAdultContent
setAdultContent
Optional. Whether this account contains adult content.
Parameter
Name
Description
var
bool
Returns
Type
Description
$this
getTestAccount
Output only. Whether this is a test account.
Returns
Type
Description
bool
setTestAccount
Output only. Whether this is a test account.
Parameter
Name
Description
var
bool
Returns
Type
Description
$this
getTimeZone
Required. The time zone of the account.
On writes,time_zonesets both thereporting_time_zoneand thedisplay_time_zone.
For reads,time_zonealways returns thedisplay_time_zone. Ifdisplay_time_zonedoesn't exist for your account,time_zoneis empty.
Theversionfield is not supported, won't be set in responses and will be
silently ignored if specified in requests.
On writes,time_zonesets both thereporting_time_zoneand thedisplay_time_zone.
For reads,time_zonealways returns thedisplay_time_zone. Ifdisplay_time_zonedoesn't exist for your account,time_zoneis empty.
Theversionfield is not supported, won't be set in responses and will be
silently ignored if specified in requests.
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