Required. The ID of the managing account. If this parameter is not the same as accountId, then this account must be a multi-client account and accountId must be the ID of a sub-account of this account.
Language code IETF BCP 47 syntax (for example, en-US). Language code is used to provide localized SMS and PHONE_CALL. Default language used is en-US if not provided.
Response body
Response message for the accounts.requestphoneverification method.
If successful, the response body contains data with the following structure:
JSON representation
{"verificationId": string}
Fields
verificationId
string
The verification ID to use in subsequent calls to verifyphonenumber.
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A `POST` request is sent to a specified URL with `merchantId` and `accountId` as required path parameters. The request body, in JSON format, includes the `phoneRegionCode`, `phoneNumber`, `phoneVerificationMethod`, and optional `languageCode`. A successful response contains a `verificationId`, which is used for subsequent phone number verification. Authorization requires the `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/content` OAuth scope.\n"],null,["# Method: accounts.requestphoneverification\n\n- [HTTP request](#body.HTTP_TEMPLATE)\n- [Path parameters](#body.PATH_PARAMETERS)\n- [Request body](#body.request_body)\n - [JSON representation](#body.request_body.SCHEMA_REPRESENTATION)\n- [Response body](#body.response_body)\n - [JSON representation](#body.RequestPhoneVerificationResponse.SCHEMA_REPRESENTATION)\n- [Authorization scopes](#body.aspect)\n- [Try it!](#try-it)\n\nRequest verification code to start phone verification.\n\n### HTTP request\n\n`POST https://shoppingcontent.googleapis.com/content/v2.1/{merchantId}/accounts/{accountId}/requestphoneverification`\n\n### Path parameters\n\n| Parameters ||\n|--------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| `merchantId` | `string (`[int64](https://developers.google.com/discovery/v1/type-format)` format)` Required. The ID of the managing account. If this parameter is not the same as accountId, then this account must be a multi-client account and accountId must be the ID of a sub-account of this account. |\n| `accountId` | `string (`[int64](https://developers.google.com/discovery/v1/type-format)` format)` Required. The ID of the account. |\n\n### Request body\n\nThe request body contains data with the following structure:\n\n| JSON representation |\n|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| ``` { \"phoneRegionCode\": string, \"phoneNumber\": string, \"phoneVerificationMethod\": enum (/shopping-content/reference/rest/v2.1/PhoneVerificationMethod), \"languageCode\": string } ``` |\n\n| Fields ||\n|---------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| `phoneRegionCode` | `string` Required. Two letter country code for the phone number, for example `CA` for Canadian numbers. See the [ISO 3166-1 alpha-2](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2#Officially_assigned_code_elements) officially assigned codes. |\n| `phoneNumber` | `string` Phone number to be verified. |\n| `phoneVerificationMethod` | `enum (`[PhoneVerificationMethod](/shopping-content/reference/rest/v2.1/PhoneVerificationMethod)`)` Verification method to receive verification code. |\n| `languageCode` | `string` Language code [IETF BCP 47 syntax](https://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp47) (for example, en-US). Language code is used to provide localized `SMS` and `PHONE_CALL`. Default language used is en-US if not provided. |\n\n### Response body\n\nResponse message for the accounts.requestphoneverification method.\n\nIf successful, the response body contains data with the following structure:\n\n| JSON representation |\n|--------------------------------------|\n| ``` { \"verificationId\": string } ``` |\n\n| Fields ||\n|------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| `verificationId` | `string` The verification ID to use in subsequent calls to `verifyphonenumber`. |\n\n### Authorization scopes\n\nRequires one of the following OAuth scopes:\n\n- `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/content`\n\nFor more information, see the [OAuth 2.0 Overview](/identity/protocols/OAuth2)."]]