Merchant API 内の Accounts サブ API を使用すると、Google Merchant Center アカウントの作成、構成、管理をプログラムで行うことができます。Merchant Center アカウントのライフサイクル全体とコア構成を管理するための包括的なツールスイートを提供します。この API は、アカウントの設定と継続的なメンテナンスを自動化しようとしている企業やサードパーティ プロバイダにとって不可欠です。
Accounts サブ API を使用すると、次のことができます。
Merchant Center アカウントのコア オペレーションを実行する: 新しい Merchant Center アカウントの作成、詳細の取得、コア設定の更新、アカウント レベルの問題のモニタリング、アクセス可能なアカウントのリスト表示、必要に応じたアカウントの削除。
Content API の移行: Content API for Shopping からの移行については、アカウント管理の移行をご覧ください。
Merchant Center アカウントの構造と関係
Merchant Center エコシステムでは、さまざまなビジネスニーズに対応するために、さまざまなアカウント構造がサポートされています。これらのアカウントは、互いにリレーションシップを形成することもできます。この場合、1 つのアカウント（サービス プロバイダ）が別のサービスに特定のサービスを提供します。Accounts サブ API を使用すると、これらのタイプとその関係を操作して管理できます。
販売アカウント
これは Merchant Center アカウントであり、通常は個々のビジネスが自社の商品リスティングとプログラムを直接管理するために使用します。
一般的なユースケース:
自社で e コマース プレゼンスを管理している中小企業。
Google Merchant Center の設定を直接管理したい販売者。
プラットフォームがアカウントの作成と管理をサポートする e コマース プラットフォームを使用している販売者。
[null,null,["最終更新日 2025-07-25 UTC。"],[[["\u003cp\u003eThe Merchant Accounts API enables programmatic creation and management of merchant accounts, users, and sub-accounts.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThird-party providers can leverage the API to build interfaces for merchants to manage their account details.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eGet started by creating your first merchant account and verifying its connection to the Merchant API for seamless integration.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eComprehensive details about the API can be found in the \u003ccode\u003eAccount\u003c/code\u003e reference documentation.\u003c/p\u003e\n"]]],["The Merchant Accounts API facilitates programmatic creation and management of merchant accounts, users, and sub-accounts. Third-party developers can build interfaces for merchants to manage their account details. Key actions include creating a merchant account, verifying its API access, and creating/managing sub-accounts. Information on controlling account access is also provided. The `Account` reference documentation offers further details on the API. Guides are provided on creating and configuring accounts, managing sub-accounts and managing account access.\n"],null,["# Overview of Accounts sub-API\n\nThe Accounts sub-API within the Merchant API lets you programmatically create,\nconfigure, and manage your Google Merchant Center accounts. It offers a\ncomprehensive suite of tools for managing the entire lifecycle and core\nconfigurations of your Merchant Center accounts. This API is essential for\nbusinesses and third-party providers looking to automate account setup and\nongoing maintenance.\n\nWith the Accounts sub-API, you can do the following:\n\n- **Perform core Merchant Center account operations:** Creating new Merchant Center accounts, retrieving their details, updating core settings, monitoring for account-level issues, listing accounts you can access, and deleting accounts when necessary.\n- **Establish your business information and online store presence:** Configure your essential business details (like address and contact information), self-declared identity attributes, and set up your online store's website by specifying, verifying, and claiming your homepage URL. This is key to how your business is represented.\n- **Manage user access and communication preferences:** Discover how to control who can access your Merchant Center account, define their specific permissions, and configure their email notification preferences for important account updates and news.\n- **Manage program enrollment and participation:** Manage your enrollment in various Merchant Center programs (like Free listings or Shopping ads), manage your participation status, and understand program-specific requirements to expand your product's reach.\n- **Configure logistics: shipping, returns, and regions:** Set up your account-level shipping settings, define your online return policies for customers, and create geographical regions for precise targeting and service delivery.\n- **Leverage advanced integrations and account linking:** Learn to manage settings for omnichannel experiences, link to Google Business Profile accounts and local feeds partnership (LFP) providers, and establish and manage service relationships with other accounts, such as third-party providers or agencies.\n\nThis set of guides provides detailed instructions and examples for common use\ncases:\n\n- **[Create an account](//developers.google.com/merchant/api/guides/accounts/create-and-configure):** Learn the steps to programmatically establish a new Merchant Center account.\n- **[Create and manage sub-accounts](/merchant/api/guides/accounts/sub-accounts):** Discover how to create and oversee accounts if you operate an [advanced account](//support.google.com/merchants/answer/14089347), essential for managing multiple sellers or brands.\n- **[Relationships](//developers.google.com/merchant/api/guides/accounts/relationships):** Understand how service relationships between different Merchant Center accounts (e.g., with advanced accounts or third-party providers) are structured and managed.\n- **[Link a Google Business Profile](//developers.google.com/merchant/api/guides/accounts/link-business-profile):** Connect your Merchant Center account with your Google Business Profile to enhance your local business presence.\n- **[Control access to your account](//developers.google.com/merchant/api/guides/accounts/control-access):** Manage user permissions and roles within your Merchant Center account to control who can perform specific actions.\n- **[Manage Merchant Center email notifications](//developers.google.com/merchant/api/guides/accounts/email-notifications):** Customize the email notifications you and other users receive for account alerts, news, and tips.\n- **[Manage homepage settings](//developers.google.com/merchant/api/guides/accounts/manage-homepage-settings):** Set, verify, and claim your online store's website URL, a crucial step for account verification and program participation.\n- **[Content API migration](//developers.google.com/merchant/api/guides/compatibility/accounts):** To learn about the migration from Content API for Shopping, see Migrate account management.\n\nMerchant Center account structure and relationships\n---------------------------------------------------\n\nThe Merchant Center ecosystem supports different account structures to cater to\nvarious business needs. These accounts can also form relationships with each\nother, where one account (a service provider) offers specific services to\nanother. The Accounts sub-API lets you interact with and manage these types and\ntheir relationships.\n\n### Merchant Accounts\n\nThis is a Merchant Center account, typically used by an individual business to\nmanage their own product listings and programs directly.\n\n**Common Use Cases:**\n\n- Small to medium-sized businesses managing their own ecommerce presence.\n- Merchants who want direct control over their Google Merchant Center setup.\n- Merchants who use ecommerce platforms where the platform helps create and manage their account.\n\n**Relationships and services:**\n\nMerchant accounts can be linked to service providers for assistance with tasks\nlike product data management or account and campaign management.\n\n### Advanced Accounts\n\nAn [advanced account](//support.google.com/merchants/answer/14089347) is a specialized account within Google\nMerchant Center. It's designed for businesses and platforms that need to manage\nmultiple Merchant Center accounts at scale.\n| **Important:** Some API methods are not applicable to advanced accounts. Refer to individual method documentation for details on applicability.\n\n**Common use cases:**\n\n- **Store builders:** Ecommerce platforms that enable merchants to create and operate their online stores.\n- **Marketplaces:** Online platforms that host multiple individual merchants selling their products.\n- **Merchants that own multiple brands:** These merchants own multiple brands and sell products in physical stores or online on multiple domains.\n- **International retailers:** Retailers selling products across multiple countries and domains.\n- **Channel partners:** Entities that help merchants list their products on various marketing channels and often provide related services.\n\n**Relationships and Services:**\n\nWhile all advanced accounts manage multiple merchant accounts, the optimal\nconfiguration and use of relationships and services often differ based on the\nspecific business model. Understanding these distinctions is key to leveraging\nthe API effectively. The following are recommended best practices for common use\ncases:\n\n#### Store builders and Channel partners\n\nThese partners should create an advanced account and establish relationships\nwith the merchants they work with.\n\n- **For existing Merchant Center accounts:** The platform should establish an `Account Management` service link with the merchant's existing individual account. This allows the platform to manage aspects of the account with the merchant's consent.\n- **For new merchants without an account:** The platform can use the API to create a new individual Merchant Center account for the merchant. A new account can be created under the platform's advanced account using the `Account Aggregation` service.\n\n| **Important:** The setup for Channel Partners can resemble that of Store Builders, especially if they provide services using store builder app stores. In these instances, the account relationship and service configurations may be analogous. Refer to the [Storebuilder Blueprint guide](//developers.google.com/merchant/storebuilder/online) for integration best practices.\n\n#### Marketplaces\n\nMarketplaces operate one advanced account per domain and create seller accounts\nwith the `Account Aggregation` service. It is common for marketplaces to use\nmultiple seller types, some of which require additional configuration by\nGoogle's support team. The domain claim and program management is done on the\nadvanced account level and inherited by the seller accounts. For additional\ndetails refer to the\n[valid marketplace account structure](//support.google.com/merchants/answer/14228975) help center\narticle.\n\n- **Marketplace-owned seller account:** A dedicated account for the marketplace's own products. This allows the marketplace to use its brand recognition, seller ratings, and specific 1P campaign strategies.\n- **Single-seller accounts:** Each account contains products for a single third-party seller. This structure is ideal for larger sellers requiring distinct, seller-specific attributes or running seller-specific advertising campaigns.\n- **Multi-Seller accounts:** A single account contains products from multiple third-party sellers, which simplifies the account and product management. For additional details refer to the [multi-seller accounts](//support.google.com/merchants/answer/15108683) help center article.\n\n#### Merchants that own multiple brands\n\nMulti-brand businesses typically use an advanced account to manage individual\naccounts for each brand, linked using an `Account Aggregation` service. This\nallows brands to operate independently (e.g., website claims, product data)\nwhile the advanced account simplifies centralized functions like user access,\nreporting, and sometimes campaign oversight.\n\n#### International retailers\n\nInternational retailers manage their global presence using an advanced account,\nwith individual accounts per country or region linked using an `Account\nAggregation` service. Their setup often varies based on domain structure:\n\n- **Single domain (with country subdomains/paths):** The main domain is typically claimed at the advanced account level and inherited by regional accounts. These regional accounts then focus on managing localized product data, pricing, and availability.\n- **Multiple country-specific domains:** Each regional account claims its own specific domain. In this model, the individual accounts handle local operations, while the advanced account is primarily used for centralized functions like user access, global reporting, and overarching campaign management."]]
