Turn on account approval for your SaaS products

This document describes how to turn on account approval for SaaS products that are sold as private offers.

When a customer purchases a private offer, Google creates an entitlement and uses Pub/Sub to notify you. By default, you must approve the customer's account resource before the offer becomes active. When you turn on account approval for a SaaS product, you can use Producer Portal to approve account resources.

Before you begin

  • Your product must be integrated with Cloud Marketplace.

  • For the Google Cloud project where you manage your products, you must have the Project Editor (roles/editor) Identity and Access Management (IAM) role.

    If you don't have this role, request access from a Project Owner (roles/owner). For details on granting access, see the IAM documentation on Granting, changing, and revoking access to resources.

Turn on account approval

To turn on account approval for one or more of your Cloud Marketplace SaaS products, complete the following steps:

  1. In the Google Cloud console, go to Producer Portal's Private Offers page.

    https://console.cloud.google.com/producer-portal/private-offers

  2. Click Settings.

  3. Under Account approval, you find a list of eligible SaaS products. Select the product or products that you want to turn on account approval for.

  4. Under Update the integration with the Partner Procurement API, select the checkbox to verify that you've updated your backend integration for the selected products to manage accounts with account approval turned on.

  5. Click Activate account approval.

  6. After you've activated account approval, you should use a test billing account to test purchasing your product through a private offer.

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