Setup

AI-generated Key Takeaways

• Upon approval for an Actions Center Local Services Ads Redirect integration, you gain access to the Partner Portal for managing your integration.

• You need to create a SSH public/private key pair to securely log in to Google's SFTP servers.

• After signing into the Partner Portal and submitting your public SSH key, a set of SFTP servers for both sandbox and production environments will be created for you.

• You can optionally grant additional users access to the Partner Portal, configure Brands, and enable/disable features within the Partner Portal.

After you are approved for an Actions Center Local Services Ads Redirect integration, you will gain access to Partner Portal to help you manage your integration. To learn more about Partner Portal, please reference here.

Note: The following steps are for partners who already work the Actions Center. To become an Actions Center partner, fill out the interest form.

Note: Integration tasks can be found under the Setup milestone in Onboarding Guides (documentation) or under Onboarding Tasks for Partner Portal.

Create a SSH public / private key pair

To create a SSH public / private key pair, follow the instructions in the SSH Setup documentation.

Key Point: Keep track of your public key. You need to provide it to Google in some of the later steps.

Note: Most Actions Center partners prefer to use the same public / private key pair across all feeds. If you wish to use a different key pair for each feed or for each environment, you may change your SSH key after the initial setup steps have been completed, within the Feed Configuration page of the Partner Portal. Refer to the Partner Portal documentation to learn how to change your keys.

Initialize the SFTP servers

Once you sign in to the Partner Portal, perform the following steps:

1. Browse to the Onboarding Tasks tab.
2. Enter your public SSH key.
3. Click Submit.

This creates a set of SFTP servers for both sandbox and production environments for you to use. You can find the SFTP server usernames in the Feed page (documentation) within the Partner Portal.

Note: Use any SFTP client to access to the Google-provided SFTP servers. Sign in with the private key you created for this project. The Google SFTP server is available at sftp://partnerupload.google.com on port 19321. This applies to both your sandbox and production servers.

Next steps

At this point, you can use the Partner Portal. You can optionally perform the following setup tasks:

1. Within the Account and Users page, grant additional users in your organization access to the Partner Portal.
2. Within the Brands page, configure the default Brand and set up new Brands in your Sandbox and Production environments.
3. Depending on your integration, within the Features page, enable or disable additional features. These configurations are environment specific.
4. Follow your Onboarding Plan to continue your integration, starting with Feeds.

For more information, see the Actions Center Partner Portal documentation.