Manage your Business Profile owners and managers

If you own a Business Profile, you can invite users to become owners or managers. Additional owners and managers can help you handle daily operations. They can edit info, respond to reviews and manage posts.

Tip: To access and manage Business Profiles without the need to share your password, each user needs their own Google Account. Learn how to create a Google Account.

Understand Business Profile owner and manager roles

Owners

As the owner, you have full control over the profile. You can add or remove users, manage profile info and even delete the profile. A Business Profile can have multiple owners but only one primary owner.

Tip: A profile must have at least one other owner or manager to transfer primary owner access to. Learn how to transfer primary ownership of a Business Profile.

Managers

Managers, formerly known as 'site managers', have mostly the same access to the profile as owners. The only exception is that they can’t add or remove users or remove the profile.

Tip: You can’t add Google Groups as managers or owners of profiles.

Owner and manager capabilities
Capability Owner Manager
Add and remove users tick  
Remove Business Profiles tick  
Edit all URLs tick tick
Accept all Google updates tick tick
Opt in or out of Bookings tick tick

Update location settings like:

  • Edit the name, category or website on
    a location
  • Close a location
  • Create location groups
tick tick
Manage Business Profile directly on Search and Maps tick tick
Manage Google Ads account links tick tick
Use Messaging tick tick
Add custom labels to make it easy to find particular groups of locations tick tick
Edit attributes tick tick
Edit food delivery link tick tick
Edit main business info, like hours and
address
tick tick
Edit phone number tick tick
Edit services tick tick
Create, manage and publish posts tick tick
Add, delete and edit cover photos and additional photos tick tick
Add, delete and edit logos tick tick
Add, delete and edit product tick tick
Respond to reviews tick tick
Download insights tick tick
Respond to Q&A tick tick

Add owners and managers

  1. Go to your Business Profile.
  2. Select More More and then Business Profile settings and then People and access.
  3. At the top left, select Add Invite new users.
  4. Enter an email address.
  5. Under 'Access', select Owner or Manager.
  6. Select Invite.

Tips:

  • Invited users can accept the invite and become users right away. If they accept, you’ll get an email. Users in the account can find names and email addresses of the owners and managers.
  • You can find all current users and pending invites in the 'People and access' page. To cancel an invite, under the 'PENDING' section, find the user and select Cancel invitation.
  • To transfer a primary ownership, learn how to transfer ownership of a Business Profile.

Change access roles for owners and managers

  1. Go to your Business Profile.
  2. Select More More and then Business Profile settings and then People and access.
  3. Select the user that you’d like to change access.
  4. Next to 'Access', select Edit Edit.
  5. Select the new role and then Save.

Tip: Only owners can change access roles for other owners and managers.

Remove an owner or manager

  1. Go to your Business Profile.
  2. Select More More and then Business Profile settings and then People and access.
  3. Select the user you’d like to remove and then Remove person.

Tips:

  • If you can’t select the user, it might mean that you only have manager-level access.
  • Only owners can remove other owners and managers.
  • When you remove a user, they get an email. They can’t change business info or do admin tasks, but their replies to reviews, posts, comments and other actions stay on the Business Profile.

Remove yourself as a profile owner or manager

Important: If you're the primary owner, you can't remove yourself until after you transfer primary ownership to someone else. Learn how to transfer primary ownership of a Business Profile.

  1. Go to your Business Profile.
  2. Select More More and then Business Profile settings and then People and access.
  3. Select yourself from the list of users and then Stop managing and then Confirm.

Tip: Once you stop managing the profile, you can no longer change business info. Even after you remove yourself, your past replies to reviews, posts, comments and other actions will stay on the Business Profile. Learn how to edit or delete your Google Maps reviews and ratings.

Understand limits for new profile owners and managers

When you become a profile owner or manager, you have to wait seven days before you can manage some profile features. During that time, you’ll get an error if you try to:

  • Delete or undelete a profile
  • Remove other owners or managers
  • Transfer primary ownership

If you delete your account within the first seven days, you’ll be removed from the profile. If you change your mind, you need to be added back again.

Tip: If an existing owner tries to make someone else the primary owner in their first seven days, they’ll get an error.

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