Method: accounts.create

  • This endpoint creates a new Google My Business account with a specified name, type, and primary owner, but Personal accounts and Organizations cannot be created directly.

  • Location Groups have ownership restrictions, preventing creation by Personal accounts under certain conditions or ownership of other Location Groups.

  • The request requires specifying the primary owner's account ID and the account details in the request body, using the POST method with the provided URL.

  • Successful requests return the newly created account details, while authorization requires specific OAuth scopes for account management.

  • This endpoint is deprecated and Google recommends using the Account Management API instead for creating accounts.

Creates an account with the specified name and type under the given parent.

  • Personal accounts and Organizations cannot be created.
  • User Groups cannot be created with a Personal account as primary owner.
  • Location Groups cannot be created with a primary owner of a Personal account if the Personal account is in an Organization.
  • Location Groups cannot own Location Groups.

HTTP request

POST https://mybusiness.googleapis.com/v4/accounts

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Query parameters

Parameters
primaryOwner

string

The resource name of the account which will be the primary owner of the account being created. It should be of the form accounts/{accountId}/.

Request body

The request body contains an instance of Account.

Response body

If successful, the response body contains a newly created instance of Account.

Authorization Scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/plus.business.manage
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/business.manage

For more information, see the OAuth 2.0 Overview.