As an admin of the payments profile manager, also known as the manager account with link-management permission, you may have received a request from another manager account to link to a payments profile that you’re managing. By approving that linking request, you’re granting permission for that manager account to use your payments profile credit line. This means that you may be invoiced for ad spending by client accounts under that manager account and take the following actions.
- View billing or invoice setup
- View budget
- View all payments profiles linked to manager accounts within hierarchy
- View all billing setups and budgets within the hierarchy
- View invoices within the hierarchy
- Create or edit account budget
- Change the payments profile that pays for an Ads account
- Change the Ads account’s invoice setup
- Set up billing/Invoice, including consolidated billing
As the manager account linking opens up the ability for the requesting manager account to manage billing for their client accounts with your payments profile credit line, it’s recommended that you carefully review the request before you approve the linking request.
What you should review before approving a manager account linking request
- Manager account: You should check whether it’s a manager account that should be using your payments profile credit line.
- Email address of the linking requester: You should check whether it’s from someone in the same organization as you.
- As a rule of thumb, the email address domain should match those used within your organization or holding company.
- Be wary of the email address domain spelling. For example, the difference between i and í. To facilitate this, Google will include a warning if the email domain of the request or does not match your email domain. This warning will be included in the requesting email.
How to approve or reject a manager account linking request
- Sign into your Google Ads Manager account.
- Click the Billing icon
and then click Payments profile where you will find the list of payments profiles linked to your manager account.
- Click the payments profile for which you have received a manager account linking request.
- Make sure that you have the link-management permission for that payments profile. This is indicated by a “Yes” in the “Link-management permission” column of the payments profile table.
- Go to the Received request tab to approve or reject the linking request accordingly.
How to unlink a manager account from the payments profile that you manage
If you have wrongly approved a manager account linking request and would like to remove the linking between that manager account and the payments profile that you manage, you can follow these steps:
- Sign into your Google Ads Manager account.
- Click the Billing icon
- Click the payments profile that you want to remove the linking.
- Make sure that you have the link-management permission for that payments profile. This is indicated by a “Yes” in the “Link-management permission” column of the payments profile table.
- Identify the manager account that you want to remove the linking from your payments profile and click Remove in the “Action” column.
- You can only remove the manager account that has 0 accounts using the payments profile.
- If you wish to remove the manager account that has some child accounts using the payments profile, contact us.
