Create MCC account with API

[Justin Knight]

Hi,

we are trying to use the googleads API to create an MCC account, linked to our main MCC account and then send linking requests from the new sub-MCC account to several customer accounts.

Our account structure looks like this:

Main MCC account

              |

              |

New MCC account

              |

              |

Linked customer accounts

'Main MCC account' and the 'linked customer accounts' already exist.

I'm trying to create the 'New MCC account' and send linking requests from that to several customer accounts.

I've managed to create an normal account using CreateCustomerClient, but the manager field in the Customer passed in  CreateCustomerClientRequest is marked as output only in the documentation (https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/reference/rpc/v6/Customer), so I'm not sure how I can create an MCC account with the API.

I then tried to link this new account with a test customer account using CustomerClientLinkService, passing the new account customer ID as the manager_customer_id and the test customer account as the client_link customer_id but get status = StatusCode.PERMISSION_DENIED details = "The caller does not have permission"

I've tried setting the login customer ID to be both our main MCC customer ID and the new account customer ID.

Calling customer_service.list_accessible_customers() also does not include the new account customer ID in the list of accessible customers, even though I just created it with the same credentials.

I am using the latest v6 googleads API with the python client library.

Thank you in advance for any help you can provide with this.

Kind regards,

Justin.

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hi Justin,

Thank you for reaching out. The answer is that you could only create the manager account manually. Please manually create the manager account and then link them.

Thanks and regards,
Xiaoming, Google Ads API Team

Xiaoming Google Ads API Team

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