Add and edit users

This article describes how to manage users in Google Ad Manager, outlining the requirement for a Google Account for each user and the necessary permissions to add or edit them. It also discusses notification settings, canceling invitations, editing user details (excluding email addresses), and deactivating users to remove their access.

On this page:

• Add new users
• Cancel invitations
• Edit users
• Deactivate users

Users are people who can view or manage orders, line items, and other items in your Ad Manager network.

Each Ad Manager user must have a Google Account . If the person you add already uses a Google product, such as Gmail or Google Ads, they already have a Google Account.

Required permissions:

• The " Edit users, roles, and teams " user role permission is required to add or edit users.
• The " Ad Exchange " permission is required to add and edit users with Ad Exchange permissions.

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Add new users

1. Sign in to Google Ad Manager.
2. Navigate to  Admin, then  Access & authorization, and then  Users.
3. Click New user.
4. Enter user information.
5. Select a  user role .
6. (Optional) Add teams .
7. Click Save.

About notification settingsIf you're in Austria, Germany, Greece, Luxembourg, Norway, or Switzerland, you must confirm the following notification settings via an email you'll receive after turning them on:

• "Optimization tips, best practices and other relevant information"
• "Be invited to opportunities to share feedback and participate in market research to help improve Ad Manager"

• Accepted invitations:An invitation can only be accepted once.
• Invitation expiration dates: Invitations expire in about a month. If the recipient fails to accept in time, the user is deleted. Create the user again to send a new invitation.

Cancel invitations

You must cancel invitations before a user accepts. If you don't, you can deactivate users .

1. Sign in to Google Ad Manager.
2. Navigate to  Admin, then  Access & authorization, and then  Users.
3. Find the user whose invitation you want to cancel.
4. Click the name of the user to go into the user's details.
5. Click Cancel invitation.
   The user's invite is immediately canceled. 

Edit users

You can edit every user attribute except their  email address .

1. Sign in to Google Ad Manager.
2. Navigate to  Admin, then  Access & authorization, and then  Users.
3. Find the user you want to edit.
4. Click the name of the user to go into the user's details.
5. Edit user information.
6. Click Save.

Deactivate users

When you deactivate a user, access to Ad Manager is removed and the user's scheduled reports stop delivering. Any recipients of these scheduled reports are automatically notified by email that report delivery has ended.

1. Sign in to Google Ad Manager.
2. Click Admin, then  Access & authorization, and then  Users.
3. Click the name of the user you'd like to deactivate.
4. In the top-right corner, click Active and select Inactive.
   This change is saved and applied immediately. To re-activate a user, edit the user's status from "Inactive" to "Active."