Manage User Access Invitations

  • Google Ads administrators can manage user access invitations to a Google Ads account.

  • Invitations are sent by creating a new CustomerUserAccessInvitation using the MutateCustomerUserAccessInvitation method.

  • Sent invitations must be manually accepted by the user, and the status can take up to 24 hours to update after acceptance.

  • Invitations can be revoked by removing the CustomerUserAccessInvitation using the MutateCustomerUserAccessInvitation method.

  • Pending user invitations can be retrieved by querying customer_user_access_invitation entities using Google Ads Query Language, potentially filtering by invitation_status = PENDING.

As a Google Ads administrator, you can manage user access invitations to a Google Adss account.

Invite users

You can send an email invitation to a new user as part of managing access to a Google Ads account. This is done by creating a new CustomerUserAccessInvitation using the MutateCustomerUserAccessInvitation method of the CustomerUserAccessInvitationService. The email invitation needs to be manually accepted by the user who received the invitation. The invitation can also be accepted by the user using an alternate email address. It can take up to 24 hours for the status to change from pending once the invitation is accepted.

This code snippet shows how to send an invitation:

Java

// Constructs an access invitation.
CustomerUserAccessInvitation invitation =
    CustomerUserAccessInvitation.newBuilder()
        .setEmailAddress(emailAddress)
        .setAccessRole(accessRole)
        .build();

// Constructs an operation to send the invitation.
CustomerUserAccessInvitationOperation operation =
    CustomerUserAccessInvitationOperation.newBuilder().setCreate(invitation).build();

// Creates a CustomerUserAccessInvitationServiceClient.
try (CustomerUserAccessInvitationServiceClient client =
    googleAdsClient.getLatestVersion().createCustomerUserAccessInvitationServiceClient()) {
  // Issues the request.
  MutateCustomerUserAccessInvitationResponse response =
      client.mutateCustomerUserAccessInvitation(String.valueOf(customerId), operation);

  // Prints some information about the result.
  System.out.printf(
      "Customer user access invitation was sent for customerId = "
          + "%d to email address = '%s' and access role = '%s'. The invitation resource "
          + "name is '%s'.%n",
      customerId, emailAddress, accessRole, response.getResult().getResourceName());
}
InviteUserWithAccessRole.java

C#

MutateCustomerUserAccessInvitationRequest invitationRequest =
    new MutateCustomerUserAccessInvitationRequest()
    {
        CustomerId = customerId.ToString(),
        Operation = new CustomerUserAccessInvitationOperation()
        {
            Create = new CustomerUserAccessInvitation()
            {
                EmailAddress = emailAddress,
                AccessRole = accessRole
            },
        }
    };
try
{
    var response = service.MutateCustomerUserAccessInvitation(invitationRequest);

    Console.WriteLine("Customer user access invitation was sent for customerId = " +
        "{0} to email address = {1} and access role = {2}. The invitation resource " +
        "name is {3}.", customerId, emailAddress, accessRole,
        response.Result.ResourceName);
}
catch (GoogleAdsException e)
{
    Console.WriteLine("Failure:");
    Console.WriteLine($"Message: {e.Message}");
    Console.WriteLine($"Failure: {e.Failure}");
    Console.WriteLine($"Request ID: {e.RequestId}");
    throw;
}
InviteUserWithAccessRole.cs

PHP

// Creates a customer user access invitation.
$customerUserAccessInvitation = new CustomerUserAccessInvitation([
    'email_address' =>  $emailAddress,
    'access_role' => AccessRole::value($accessRole)
]);

// Creates a customer user access invitation operation.
$customerUserAccessInvitationOperation = new CustomerUserAccessInvitationOperation();
$customerUserAccessInvitationOperation->setCreate($customerUserAccessInvitation);

// Issues a mutate request to send the customer user access invitation and prints its
// information.
$customerUserAccessInvitationServiceClient =
    $googleAdsClient->getCustomerUserAccessInvitationServiceClient();
$response = $customerUserAccessInvitationServiceClient->mutateCustomerUserAccessInvitation(
    MutateCustomerUserAccessInvitationRequest::build(
        $customerId,
        $customerUserAccessInvitationOperation
    )
);
printf(
    "Customer user access invitation with resource name '%s' was sent from customer "
    . "ID %d to email address '%s' with access role '%s'.%s",
    $response->getResult()->getResourceName(),
    $customerId,
    $emailAddress,
    $accessRole,
    PHP_EOL
);
InviteUserWithAccessRole.php