As an admin of the payments profile manager, also known as the manager account with link-management permission , you may have received a request from another manager account to link to a payments profile that you’re managing. By approving that linking request, you’re granting permission for that manager account to use your payments profile credit line. This means that you may be invoiced for ad spending by client accounts under that manager account.
On this page
- Access level permissions
- What you should review before approving a manager account linking request
- How to approve or reject a manager account linking request
- How to unlink a manager account from the payments profile that you manage
Access level permissions
When you approve a linking request, the manager account can perform these actions:
- View billing or invoice setup
- View budget
- View all payments profiles linked to manager accounts within hierarchy
- View all billing setups and budgets within the hierarchy
- View invoices within the hierarchy
- Create or edit account budget
- Change the payments profile that pays for an Ads account
- Change the Ads account’s invoice setup
- Set up billing/Invoice, including consolidated billing
Manager account linking allows the requesting manager account to manage billing for their client accounts with your payments profile credit line. Because of this, you should carefully review the request before you approve the linking request.
What you should review before approving a manager account linking request
- Manager account: You should check whether it’s a manager account that should be using your payments profile credit line.
- Email address of the linking requester: You should check whether it’s from someone in the same organization as you.
- As a standard practice, the email address domain should match those used within your organization or holding company.
- Carefully check the email address domain spelling. For example, the difference between i and í. To facilitate this, Google will include a warning if the email domain of the requester or does not match your email domain. This warning will be included in the requesting email.
How to approve or reject a manager account linking request
- Sign into your Google Ads Manager account .
- Select Billingicon
and then select Payments profileswhere you'll find the list of payments profiles linked to your manager account.
- Select the payments profile for which you have received a manager account linking request.
- Make sure that you have the link-management permission for that payments profile. This is indicated by a “Yes” in the “Link-management permission” column of the payments profile table .
- Go to the Received requeststab to approve or reject the linking request accordingly.
How to unlink a manager account from the payments profile that you manage
If you have approved a manager account linking request in error and want to remove the link from the payments profile you manage, you can follow these steps:
- Sign into your Google Ads Manager account .
- Select Billingicon
- Select the payments profile that you want to unlink.
- Make sure that you have the link-management permission for that payments profile. This is indicated by a “Yes” in the “Link-management permission” column of the payments profile table .
- Identify the manager account that you want to remove the linking from your payments profile and select Removein the “Action” column.
- You can only remove the manager account that has zero accounts using the payments profile.
- If you want to remove the manager account that has some child accounts using the payments profile, contact us .
