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Method: accounts.create
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Creates an account with the specified name and type under the given parent.
- Personal accounts and Organizations cannot be created.
- User Groups cannot be created with a Personal account as primary owner.
- Location Groups cannot be created with a primary owner of a Personal account if the Personal account is in an Organization.
- Location Groups cannot own Location Groups.
HTTP request
POST https://mybusiness.googleapis.com/v4/accounts
The URL uses gRPC Transcoding
syntax.
Query parameters
| Parameters |
primaryOwner
|
string
The resource name of the account which will be the primary owner of the account being created. It should be of the form accounts/{accountId}/
.
|
Request body
The request body contains an instance of Account
.
Response body
If successful, the response body contains a newly created instance of Account
.
Authorization Scopes
Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:
-
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/plus.business.manage
-
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/business.manage
For more information, see the OAuth 2.0 Overview
.
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Last updated 2024-10-16 UTC.
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