Set up your Google Cloud reseller account

We recommend working with your IT administration team to set up your reseller account including the following administrators:

• An administrator who can access your company's domain host and manage DNS settings.
• Super admins with access to Google Cloud and Partner Sales Console user settings and resources.
• Organization admins who manage permissions and access to your organization resource. For details, go to Creating and managing organization resources.

Setting up your reseller account isn't technically complex, but does require choosing the configuration that fits your business.

We recommend setting up your Cloud Identity or Google Workspace reseller account using a subdomain, for example, reseller.your-company.com. Then, your users sign in to the Partner Sales Console and Google Cloud console with their account, for example, [email protected].

Alternatively, you can use your company domain for your Cloud Identity or Google Workspace reseller account.

Benefits of a subdomain

• If your company already uses Google Workspace, you have separation between your company account and your reseller account. A super admin on your reseller team won't have full access to your company's Google Workspace account.
• If you resell Google Workspace, you can purchase the Google Workspace or Cloud Identity Premium subscription for your company. Or, you can transfer your existing Google Workspace subscription to your reseller account.

Considerations for a subdomain

• You need to manage a separate set of user accounts and credentials. The super admins and user management admins in your Cloud Identity or Google Workspace reseller account must actively manage user accounts. For example, if a user leaves the company, the admin is responsible for removing the user's account.
• To receive notifications, users must set up email forwarding from their reseller account to their user account.

Reseller domain requirements

Before you set up your reseller account, check that your domain or subdomain meets these requirements:

• The domain is the primary domain for your Cloud Identity or Google Workspace account. You cannot change the primary domain. Instead, you need to sign up for Cloud Identity or Google Workspace again with the new domain name.
• The domain is registered and verified.
• If you resell Google Workspace, you have a paid Google Workspace subscription for the domain. 

Domains that can't be used:

• Secondary domains and domain aliases in your Cloud Identity or Google Workspace account.
• Domains purchased when you signed up for Cloud Identity or Google Workspace
• Domains that are unverified, purged, expired, or deleted.

The following conditions apply when setting up a Google Cloud organization resource:

• One organization resource is connected to one Partner Sales Console.
• All Google Cloud reseller billing accounts must belong to an organization.

An organization resource can have Google Cloud reseller billing accounts in different currencies. Each reseller billing account generates an individual invoice.

Before you can create a Google Cloud organization resource, you must sign up for a Google Workspace or Cloud Identity subscription and verify your domain. 

For the steps, go to Creating and managing organization resources.

Single organization resource

With a single organization resource, you start with one Google Cloud reseller billing account that operates in a single currency. The reseller billing account has a selected tax status and link to a payment profile of a legal affiliate. If you work with multiple currencies and legal affiliates, you can set up multiple Google Cloud reseller billing accounts. Changes to permissions at the organization level apply to all Google Cloud reseller billing accounts in the organization resource.

Advantages

• One set of users to manage.
• One organization resource to manage. Permissions set at the organization level are inherited by all Google Cloud reseller billing accounts in the organization resource.

Considerations

• Users with Partner Sales Console access can view all customers' names, domain, and contact information. Only users with permissions on a reseller billing account can view a customer's billing subaccount information.
• To sign in to the Partner Sales Console, users need an account in the Google Admin console and a role in your organization resource.

Multiple organization resources

Set up separate organization resources based on your business' country, region, branding, or other factors. Each organization resource requires its own subdomain or domain.

Advantages

Each organization resource has its own Partner Sales Console and separate sets of super administrators and billing account administrators.

Considerations

• Multiple organization resources and Cloud Identity or Google Workspace accounts to manage
• Multiple users and permissions to manage for each organization resource

You can give each team its own Admin console, Partner Sales Console, organization resource, and Google Cloud reseller billing accounts. IT administrators for each domain are responsible for managing their own set of users.

Or you can set up a secondary domain, which gives you a separate organization resource, Partner Sales Console, and Google Cloud reseller billing account. Your IT organization manages all users and domains in one Admin console.

No. You can continue using multiple consoles if you prefer. But we encourage you to use your existing console if you want to add new currencies because of the benefits previously listed.

We don't currently support migration or consolidation of multiple Partner Sales Consoles. We'll notify you when consolidation of multiple consoles becomes available.

No. However, you can set up multiple currencies using the Cloud Channel API. Learn about using multiple Workspace billing accounts with the Cloud Channel API.

Yes. You will receive one invoice per billing account.