Page Summary
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The
Accountresource is the central entity in Shopping Ads, managing product data, settings, and interactions with Google and external services. -
Accounts can be standalone or part of a multi-client account (MCA) structure, where a parent account oversees multiple sub-accounts.
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The
TimeZoneresource represents a time zone from the IANA Time Zone Database, used to configure account settings. -
Several methods are available for managing accounts, including creating, deleting, retrieving, listing, and updating them.
Resource: Account
The Account
message 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.
The Account
message is the parent entity for many other resources, for example, AccountRelationship
, Homepage
, BusinessInfo
and so on.
| JSON representation |
|---|
{
"name"
:
string
,
"accountId"
:
string
,
"accountName"
:
string
,
"testAccount"
:
boolean
,
"timeZone"
:
{
object (
|
| Fields | |
|---|---|
name
|
Identifier. The resource name of the account. Format: |
accountId
|
Output only. The ID of the account. |
accountName
|
Required. A human-readable name of the account. See store name and business name for more information. |
testAccount
|
Output only. Whether this is a test account. |
timeZone
|
Required. The time zone of the account. On writes, For reads, The |
languageCode
|
Required. The account's BCP-47 language code
, such as |
adultContent
|
Optional. Whether this account contains adult content. |
Methods |
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|---|---|
|
Creates a Merchant Center account with additional configuration. |
|
Deletes the specified account regardless of its type: standalone, advanced account or sub-account. |
|
Retrieves an account from your Merchant Center account. |
|
Note: For the accounts.list
method, quota and limits usage are charged for each user, and not for the Merchant Center ID or the advanced account ID. |
|
List all sub-accounts for a given advanced account. |
|
Updates an account regardless of its type: standalone, advanced account or sub-account. |
