Googles accounts are used by millions of folks the world over and because they have so many products and users, Google’s account login and access processes differ and can be fairly complicated. If you’re a small business using Google Ads, you might have struggled with how to easily grant someone access to your account without having to provide your personal logins. Luckily, within your Google Ads accounts, there is a section made for facilitating new user access.

These simple steps are the key to opening your account to partner users, because by sharing access to your Google Ads account, you can work with other people in your business on the same Google Ads account and keep all the work and data in the same controlled environment. Once you’ve granted access, you can edit a user’s access level, or you can always remove access later on.

How To Grant Access To Your Google Ads Account

  1. Sign in to your Google Ads account.
  2. In the upper right corner of your account, click the tools icon, then under “Setup,” click Account access.
  3. Click the plus button.
  4. Select an access level for your invitee, then enter their email address.
  5. Click Send invitation.
  6. After the person accepts your email invitation, you’ll receive a notification in your account. If you need to revoke your invitation, click Revoke in the “Actions” column.

How To Remove Access To Your Google Ads Account

  1. Sign in to your Google Ads account.
  2. In the upper right corner of your account, click the tools icon , then under “Setup,” click Account access.
  3. Find the user you want to remove, and in the “Actions” column, click Remove access.

How To Edit Access Level

  1. Sign in to your Google Ads account.
  2. In the upper right corner of your account, click the tools icon , then under “Setup,” click Account access.
  3. Place your cursor over a user’s access level in the “Access level” column, then click the arrow that appears to select a new access level for the user.

Understanding Different Levels Of Access Levels

Each time you grant access to your Google Ads Account, you’ll be able to select which features the user can impact by assigning an access level.

This chart details the levels of access you can assign and the corresponding features available for each access level.

If you’ve accepted an invitation to link to a manager account, people who have administrative access to the manager account can receive notification emails and manage your campaigns. If the manager account has ownership, users with administrative access to the manager account can also edit user access, managers, and product links within your account.

You can manage which users can perform tasks like making payments, changing payment methods, or receiving invoices by adding or removing them from your Google payments profile in the Google payments center.