---
title: "POST /v1/accounts"
method: POST
path: "/v1/accounts"
tags: ["accounts"]
---

# POST /v1/accounts

`POST /v1/accounts`

Creates an account with the specified name and type under the given parent. - Personal accounts and Organizations cannot be created. - User Groups cannot be created with a Personal account as primary owner. - Location Groups cannot be created with a primary owner of a Personal account if the Personal account is in an Organization. - Location Groups cannot own Location Groups.

## Request body

- Account — An account is a container for your location. If you are the only user who manages locations for your business, you can use your personal Google Account. To share management of locations with multiple users, [create a business account] (https://support.google.com/business/answer/6085339?ref_topic=6085325).
  - `vettedState` 'VETTED_STATE_UNSPECIFIED' | 'NOT_VETTED' | 'VETTED' | 'INVALID' — Output only. Indicates whether the account is vetted by Google. A vetted account is able to verify locations via the VETTED_PARTNER method.
  - `verificationState` 'VERIFICATION_STATE_UNSPECIFIED' | 'VERIFIED' | 'UNVERIFIED' | 'VERIFICATION_REQUESTED' — Output only. If verified, future locations that are created are automatically connected to Google Maps, and have Google+ pages created, without requiring moderation.
  - `type` 'ACCOUNT_TYPE_UNSPECIFIED' | 'PERSONAL' | 'LOCATION_GROUP' | 'USER_GROUP' | 'ORGANIZATION' — Required. Contains the type of account. Accounts of type PERSONAL and ORGANIZATION cannot be created using this API.
  - `primaryOwner` string — Required. Input only. The resource name of the account which will be the primary owner of the account being created. It should be of the form `accounts/{account_id}`.
  - `permissionLevel` 'PERMISSION_LEVEL_UNSPECIFIED' | 'OWNER_LEVEL' | 'MEMBER_LEVEL' — Output only. Specifies the permission level the user has for this account.
  - `organizationInfo` OrganizationInfo — Additional information stored for an organization.
    - `registeredDomain` string — Output only. The registered domain for the account.
    - `phoneNumber` string — Output only. The contact number for the organization.
    - `address` PostalAddress — Represents a postal address, such as for postal delivery or payments addresses. With a postal address, a postal service can deliver items to a premise, P.O. box, or similar. A postal address is not intended to model geographical locations like roads, towns, or mountains. In typical usage, an address would be created by user input or from importing existing data, depending on the type of process. Advice on address input or editing: - Use an internationalization-ready address widget such as https://github.com/google/libaddressinput. - Users should not be presented with UI elements for input or editing of fields outside countries where that field is used. For more guidance on how to use this schema, see: https://support.google.com/business/answer/6397478.
      - `postalCode` string — Optional. Postal code of the address. Not all countries use or require postal codes to be present, but where they are used, they may trigger additional validation with other parts of the address (for example, state or zip code validation in the United States).
      - `sortingCode` string — Optional. Additional, country-specific, sorting code. This is not used in most regions. Where it is used, the value is either a string like "CEDEX", optionally followed by a number (for example, "CEDEX 7"), or just a number alone, representing the "sector code" (Jamaica), "delivery area indicator" (Malawi) or "post office indicator" (Côte d'Ivoire).
      - `revision` integer — The schema revision of the `PostalAddress`. This must be set to 0, which is the latest revision. All new revisions **must** be backward compatible with old revisions.
      - `administrativeArea` string — Optional. Highest administrative subdivision which is used for postal addresses of a country or region. For example, this can be a state, a province, an oblast, or a prefecture. For Spain, this is the province and not the autonomous community (for example, "Barcelona" and not "Catalonia"). Many countries don't use an administrative area in postal addresses. For example, in Switzerland, this should be left unpopulated.
      - `regionCode` string — Required. CLDR region code of the country/region of the address. This is never inferred and it is up to the user to ensure the value is correct. See https://cldr.unicode.org/ and https://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/30/supplemental/territory_information.html for details. Example: "CH" for Switzerland.
      - `addressLines` string[] — Unstructured address lines describing the lower levels of an address. Because values in `address_lines` do not have type information and may sometimes contain multiple values in a single field (for example, "Austin, TX"), it is important that the line order is clear. The order of address lines should be "envelope order" for the country or region of the address. In places where this can vary (for example, Japan), `address_language` is used to make it explicit (for example, "ja" for large-to-small ordering and "ja-Latn" or "en" for small-to-large). In this way, the most specific line of an address can be selected based on the language. The minimum permitted structural representation of an address consists of a `region_code` with all remaining information placed in the `address_lines`. It would be possible to format such an address very approximately without geocoding, but no semantic reasoning could be made about any of the address components until it was at least partially resolved. Creating an address only containing a `region_code` and `address_lines` and then geocoding is the recommended way to handle completely unstructured addresses (as opposed to guessing which parts of the address should be localities or administrative areas).
      - `locality` string — Optional. Generally refers to the city or town portion of the address. Examples: US city, IT comune, UK post town. In regions of the world where localities are not well defined or do not fit into this structure well, leave `locality` empty and use `address_lines`.
      - `sublocality` string — Optional. Sublocality of the address. For example, this can be a neighborhood, borough, or district.
      - `languageCode` string — Optional. BCP-47 language code of the contents of this address (if known). This is often the UI language of the input form or is expected to match one of the languages used in the address' country/region, or their transliterated equivalents. This can affect formatting in certain countries, but is not critical to the correctness of the data and will never affect any validation or other non-formatting related operations. If this value is not known, it should be omitted (rather than specifying a possibly incorrect default). Examples: "zh-Hant", "ja", "ja-Latn", "en".
      - `recipients` string[] — Optional. The recipient at the address. This field may, under certain circumstances, contain multiline information. For example, it might contain "care of" information.
      - `organization` string — Optional. The name of the organization at the address.
  - `accountName` string — Required. The name of the account. For an account of type `PERSONAL`, this is the first and last name of the user account.
  - `role` 'ACCOUNT_ROLE_UNSPECIFIED' | 'PRIMARY_OWNER' | 'OWNER' | 'MANAGER' | 'SITE_MANAGER' — Output only. Specifies the AccountRole of this account.
  - `name` string — Immutable. The resource name, in the format `accounts/{account_id}`.
  - `accountNumber` string — Output only. Account reference number if provisioned.

## Response `200`

Successful response

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