Shared developer account

[Mark Downey]

Our company has an app published in the chrome store and we'd like to have a shared developer account. 

Firstly, we don't want to rely on a single developer's account and secondly, we'd like the marketing folks to be able to login and edit the app description, screenshots, etc.

The obvious solution is to create a new Google Apps user and share his credentials but paying $5/month for a chrome app on top of the developer fee sounds excessive.

@Google: could you recommend a best practice here?

Thanks in advance.

[Chris Hughes]

Mark, that fee is collected one time only... If the developer account that has the build posted is different than the shared one you are speaking of, you could I guess transfer the app/extension.

There are no monthly fees though, the onetime payment per developer account (or better put publisher account) is only collected at the time you're ready to put something in the store.

IT WOULD BE AWESOME if google had support for multiple developers.

There is this issue in the tracker, star it to get support for easier transfers... there seems to have been a lot of activity here lately

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=93468

Hope this helps.

-Chris

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium Apps" group.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/chromium-apps/-/lt0v7yycDlAJ.
To post to this group, send email to chromi...@chromium.org.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to chromium-app...@chromium.org.
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-apps/?hl=en.

--
sig ver 2.4
twitter: @chews (drunk tweet me)
blog: http://spazout.com
iPhone: 310.933.4533

[Joe Marini]

Correct, that fee is only one-time.

If you want to create a new developer account, we can transfer ownership to it.

-joe

Joe Marini

Developer Advocate / Chrome

joem...@google.com | +Joe Marini | @joemarini

[Mark Downey]

I didn't phrase my sentence correctly. The $5/month is to create a new Google Apps emails which would own the developer account.

[Joe Marini]

You don't need to do that. Any email address can own the developer account.

To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/chromium-apps/-/oI0pJoH-1XkJ.

To post to this group, send email to chromi...@chromium.org.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to chromium-app...@chromium.org.
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-apps/?hl=en.

[Mark Downey]

My point is that I would like the account to be owned by multiple people (hence a dedicated shared email address). Or by the organization. 

It's very inconvenient within an organization to have only 1 person own this.

[Joe Marini]

Yes, I understand. All I'm saying is that the email address you use to control ownership doesn't have to be a Google Apps one - you can create an email address solely for the purpose of owning this developer account and give the relevant people access to it, and it can be on any email service.

We are looking into enabling group ownership in the CWS, but I don't have any details on this currently.

To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/chromium-apps/-/ybCNd9A6JJ4J.

To post to this group, send email to chromi...@chromium.org.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to chromium-app...@chromium.org.
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-apps/?hl=en.

[Adrian Aichner]

Am Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2013 20:38:50 UTC+1 schrieb Joe Marini:

Yes, I understand. All I'm saying is that the email address you use to control ownership doesn't have to be a Google Apps one - you can create an email address solely for the purpose of owning this developer account and give the relevant people access to it, and it can be on any email service.

Hello Joe, I can't see how this would work with anything else but a gmail account with a shared password.

How can you "...give the relevant people access to it, and it can be on any email service..."?

http://android-developers.blogspot.de/2012/03/making-developer-console-work-for-your.html

suggests that Android has the feature of granting multiple individual accounts role-based access to the Android Developer Console.

I have this situation where I do all the coding, issue tracking, and testing work but then have to wait until the dashboard owner gets around to publishing a new version.

They would be happy to let me publish, but don't want to give up complete control of their project, which I can understand.

Looking forward to your advice,

Adrian

[Joe Marini]

1. You create an email account. Let's suppose "my_cws_...@gmail.com" for example.

2. You use this email as the developer account on the CWS.

3. You give the password to this account to the people you want to be able to publish and make changes. 

Joe

To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to chromium-app...@chromium.org.

To post to this group, send email to chromi...@chromium.org.

Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-apps/?hl=en.

For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/groups/opt_out.
 
 

[Adrian Aichner]

Thanks Joe, that confirms my understanding.

Adrian

[Joe Marini]

We're working on a better solution, but I don't have anything firm I can discuss yet.

Joe

On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Adrian Aichner <adrian....@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks Joe, that confirms my understanding.

Adrian

[ma...@cosmiccart.com]

Joe, is there any update on this? Our company really needs multiple developer account access to a single business account. We use Google Apps for our domain, so having the Chrome Web Store integrated in a similar fashion would be ideal. Actually, "ideal" is an overstatement. Honestly, at the risk of sounding snarky, it should be the default. Sharing usernames and passwords is no way to operate. Also, will the account we deploy with have ownership of those apps forever? I ask because if we decided to have one developer use his/her account to do the deployments and NOT share the username/password with anyone, would we be able to transfer the app away from that user in the future if we needed to?

Thanks,

-Matt

[James Mortensen]

Just create a Gmail account called cosmi...@gmail.com, for free, then give the username and password of that Gmail account to your other developers.  There's no $5 per month fee, and no one has to share their individual account details since you're creating cosmi...@gmail.com specifically for the purpose of managing the Chrome apps.

Of course, this is just a workaround until the team implements the shared access they eluded to earlier.  Hope this helps!

James

[Matt Senter]

Yep that's what we ended up doing. Seems to be the only way right now. We suffered a little bit of analysis paralysis, though, trying to determine if our extensions would be permanently stuck under that gmail account if and when the multi-account access features became available. But then I found the transfer form in another thread, so I think we'll be ok when that time comes. I'll leave that form link here in case anyone else stumbles across this issue:

https://support.google.com/chrome_webstore/contact/dev_account_transfer

Thanks,
-Matt

On Jul 1, 2013, at 8:21 PM, Matt Senter <ma...@cosmiccart.com> wrote:

Yep that's what we ended up doing. Seems to be the only way right now. We suffered a little bit of analysis paralysis, though, trying to determine if our extensions would be permanently stuck under that gmail account if and when the multi-account access features became available. But then I found the transfer form in another thread, so I think we'll be ok when that time comes. I'll leave that form link here in case anyone else stumbles across this issue:

https://support.google.com/chrome_webstore/contact/dev_account_transfer

Thanks,

-Matt

[Joe Marini]

We can always transfer ownership later, it's very quick and easy.

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium Apps" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to chromium-app...@chromium.org.
To post to this group, send email to chromi...@chromium.org.

Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-apps/.

[ad...@splitscreenstudios.com]

Hi Joe,

We try to transfer the ownership of our games (Steel Legions and Pirate Galaxy) to this account from the personal account of one of our staff members with this tool: https://support.google.com/chrome_webstore/contact/dev_account_transfer . The tool seems to work at the beginning (the staff members gets an email to confirm a transfer) but with no detail on what to confirm an the games does not show up at this (new) account dashboard after confirmation.

Does it take some time to transfer? Means: are we doing something wrong or do we just have to wait?

Thanks for your support!

Best,
Timm (from Splitscreen Studios)

On Tuesday, July 2, 2013 5:09:10 AM UTC+2, Joe Marini wrote:

We can always transfer ownership later, it's very quick and easy.

On Jul 1, 2013 5:23 PM, "Matt Senter" <ma...@cosmiccart.com> wrote:

Yep that's what we ended up doing. Seems to be the only way right now. We suffered a little bit of analysis paralysis, though, trying to determine if our extensions would be permanently stuck under that gmail account if and when the multi-account access features became available. But then I found the transfer form in another thread, so I think we'll be ok when that time comes. I'll leave that form link here in case anyone else stumbles across this issue:

[Joe Marini]

Hmm. I can do this for you - have the staff member send me an email from his account confirming the transfer.