Create sub-accounts for merchants

Summary

If you will be creating Merchant Center accounts for more than one merchant, we suggest using a multi-client account (MCA), since authenticating as an MCA allows you to manage its sub-accounts via the Merchant Center and the Content API without having to set up authentication for each new sub-account. MCAs cannot contain product information themselves, so you will need to create sub-accounts for merchants which will contain their product information. You can create these sub-accounts either manually or via the Content API as described in the following sections.

Note: By default, MCAs are limited to 50 sub-accounts. If you need more than 50 sub-accounts, you can request more using the quota form.

Manual steps

1. In the Merchant Center for your MCA, go to the Accounts tab.
2. Click on the blue + button.
3. Fill in the information for the new sub-account, and then click save.

Automatic steps

Using the Content API for Shopping, perform the following steps:

1. If you are creating an account on behalf of a client, you should first ask them to accept the Google Merchant Center Terms of Service.
   • Make sure to present the client with the Terms of Service for their particular country and language.
   • The links above cannot be used in an iframe, so you may need to present the user with your own stored copy of the Terms of Service and to have a way to keep your stored copy up to date with the current Terms of Service.
   • Keep a record of the acceptance of the Terms of Service and be prepared to provide these records to Google if requested.

2. To create a new account, use the Accounts.insert method of the Accounts service.

   Note: There are example uses of the Accounts.insert method in the Shopping samples.