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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.
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.
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.
Click Activate account approval.
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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