There are three different access levels in Play Console: account owner, admins, and users. Your access level determines what actions you can perform and what information you can access in Play Console. As an admin (administrator), user management allows you to safely control which parts of Play Console your wider team can see based on their roles, what data they have access to, and the settings they can change.
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Give users access
Step 1: Decide whether your user needs account or app access
Before you set up permissions, you need to decide if your user needs access at account level or at app level:
- Account: Account permissions apply to all apps in your developer account.
- App: App permissions only apply to the selected app.
Some permissions are exclusively available to app or account level users only. For details on how account and app access might impact a specific permission differently, you can check the permission definitions and uses section.
Step 2: Add users and turn permissions on or off
If you're an account owner or admin, you can add users to your Play Console account and manage permissions across all apps or for specific apps. Before adding users and turning permissions on or off, review the permission definitions and uses section to ensure that you understand them.
- Open Play Console(Users and permissions > Invite new users).
- To manage permissions for an existing user, click anywhere on the user’s row in the user table.
- To add a new user, type the user’s email address and set an access expiry date if necessary. Make sure you have the Admin (all permissions) permission at account level.
Note: Invited users can only sign in to Play Console using the same email address that you provided. Also, if you don't choose an access expiry date, the user will have ongoing access to your Play Console account or app indefinitely. - Select the permissions you want to apply to specific apps using the App permissions tab. To select permissions to apply to all apps in your developer account, use the Account permissions tab.
- To add an app to the permissions table, select Add app under the App permissions tab and then click Apply.
- Select Invite user.
Permission definitions and uses
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Managed Google Play permissions
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Google Play games services permissions
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Manage user access
Account requirements for invited usersWhen users are invited to access Play Console, they must sign in with a Google account using the same email address that the admin or Play Console account owner invited. Users can create a Google account using a new Gmail address (@gmail.com) or with an existing email address, such as a company email address.
If an invited user needs to access Play Console with a different email address, they need to contact the admin and ask them to resend an invitation to their preferred email address.
If a user doesn't accept an invitation and sign in within 30 days, the invitation will expire and the admin will need to resend an invitation.
After you send an invitation, the user's email address will be listed with the status "Invite sent." If the user's access has an access expiration date, it will be included in their invitation. When the user accepts the invitation, the account owner will get a confirmation email and the user’s status will change to "Active."
If you're the account owner, take the following steps to update users’ access expiration dates:
- Open Play Console (Users and permissions > Manage users).
- Select users to extend access expiry from the drop-down menu.
- In the table, select the users whose access you want to extend and click Extend access.
- Choose how long you want to extend access for and click Extend access.
- Select Confirm to save your changes.
To individually update a user’s access expiration date, take the following steps:
- Open Play Console (Users and permissions > User details).
- Click anywhere on the user’s row in the user table.
- On the User details page, check the box next to "Set access expiry."
- Enter an access expiry date or choose one using the calendar.
- Click Save changes.
If you're the account owner, take the following steps to remove users’ access:
- Open Play Console Users and permissions > Manage users).
- Select users to remove from the drop-down menu.
- In the table, select the users who you want to remove and select Remove.
- Click Save changes.
To individually remove a user’s access, take the following steps:
- Open Play Console (Users and permissions > User details).
- Click anywhere on the user’s row in the user table.
- On the User details page, select Remove user.
If you get "Error 403" within Play Console, ask your account owner to grant you permissions for that app.
Permissions for integrated features
User permissions for Google Play game servicesFor a Play Console user to access Google Play game services information, the following requirements must be met:
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If you want to add a user to your project after a Google Play games services project has been created, you need to extend an existing user's Play Console rights and add the user to your Google Developers Console so they can edit and publish Google Play games services projects.
Here are the steps to add a user to your project on the Google Developers Console:
- Sign in to the Google Developers Console.
- Select a project.
- On the left menu, select Permissions.
- Near the top of your screen, select Add Member.
- Type the email address of the user you added to Play Console.
- Choose a permission level.
- Select Add.
For another user to have access to reports on your Google payments center, you need to add the user on your Google payments center settings. Play Console permissions are separate from any permissions managed within the Google payments center.
Here are the steps to add a user to your Google payments center:
- Sign in to the Google payments center.
- On the left menu, select Settings .
- Under "Payments users," select Manage Payments Users > Add a new user.
- Follow the onscreen instructions to add the requested information.
- Select Invite.
Related content
- Learn more about adding users and managing user permissions in Play Academy.