Removing ManagedCustomerService Accounts

[Justin]

Hi,

After creating a sub account using the API's ManagedCustomerService -> mutate -> ADD operation. How can this account be subsequently removed/deleted?

My understanding is to un-link the sub-account via mutateLink and set the LinkStatus to Inactive. However the sub-account will then not have a user with administrative access or a manager account with administrative ownership and the operation will return a CANNOT_UNLINK_ACCOUNT_WITHOUT_ACTIVE_USER error.

Is there a way to completely remove these sub-accounts (not just link to another account)?

Thanks in advance,

Justin

[googleadsapi...@google.com]

Hello Justin,

Yes, you understood right. Unfortunately, there is no other way to delete the accounts completely. You can link them to another MCC account and then un-link from the current manager account otherwise give access to a user as an adminstrative user to that account and then do the un-linking. You could refer this guide to grant account access. Please let me know if you have any further questions.

Regards,
Sai Teja, AdWords API Team

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