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Add another Google Ads account

To add another Google Ads account, open Settings > Connections and click Connect account. To open Settings, click your profile picture at the bottom of the sidebar, then click Settings. You can also open the account switcher at the top of the sidebar and click Add account. Click Connect Google Ads, and sign in with the Google login that has access. Pick the account and the business that it goes into. Then click Use this account. You can connect up to 10 Google Ads accounts.

An account in Hero Marketer is a Google Ads account. Each account is in one business. A business is the company that you advertise, and it holds your products. Each chat, dashboard, and report covers one account at a time. See Businesses, accounts and products.

How many Google Ads accounts you can connect​

You can connect up to 10 Google Ads accounts. There is no plan to upgrade. If you already have 10, the app shows You've hit your account limit instead of the connection flow. Disconnect an account you no longer need to make room.

Adding an account needs a balance above 0​

Your first Google Ads account connects free during onboarding. To connect more accounts, you must have a balance above 0. The connection itself does not use credits. But each account that you add gets daily checks, at 0.25 credits a day for each account. With no credits, Add account opens a preview of the flow with an offer to buy credits. After you buy, the flow unlocks on the same page.

Each account you connect still gets its own free scan for problems, and its own free AI summary on the dashboard. See How credits work.

Connect another account​

  1. Open Settings > Connections. To open Settings, click your profile picture at the bottom of the sidebar, then click Settings.
  2. Click Connect account.
  3. The Pick an ad platform step shows what connecting does and what it costs. Click Connect Google Ads.
  4. Google's account chooser and consent screen opens. Sign in with the Google login that has access to the account.
  5. Pick the account from the list of accounts that the login can reach. Accounts already in Hero Marketer show Already added. You cannot pick them again.
  6. Under Business, pick the business that the account goes into. To add a new client, pick A new business and type the Business name.
  7. Click Use this account. Hero Marketer gets the account's time zone and currency.

To see the accounts of another Google login, click Use a different Google account on the Choose an account step.

What opens after you connect the account​

The free scan of the new account runs in the background, and its alerts go to your Alerts inbox. The new account becomes the active account. What opens next depends on the business that you picked:

  • A business that you already have. The dashboard of the new account opens. The account uses the products of that business, so you do not add a product.
  • A new business. Hero Marketer creates the business with one product, which has the name of the account. The campaign wizard opens on that product. Its first step is Tell us about this product first, which reads the product's website. The website read usually uses under half a credit. You can leave the wizard and read the website later.

Which business is picked first​

The Business list starts on the business that the account switcher shows. When you click Add account in the switcher, that is the business of the active account. You can pick any other business, or A new business, before you click Use this account. To move the account to another business later, see Businesses, accounts and products.

Automations and alerts also apply to the new account​

The recommended automations that you turned on also apply to the new account. They can act on the new account from its first scan. Recommended automations have no setting for each account. To keep them off the new account, turn them off in Settings > Automations before you connect it. This turns them off for every account. A custom automation runs only on the account that was active when you saved it. See Turn on an automation.

Your alert settings also apply to every account that you connect.

What is separate and what is shared across accounts​

Each Google Ads account in Hero Marketer has these items of its own:

  • Its own campaigns, dashboards, reports, and Hero AI chats.
  • Its own Google Ads connection.
  • Its own daily checks, at 0.25 credits a day.

Accounts in the same business share the products of that business. Accounts in different businesses do not share products.

What is shared across every account that you connect:

  • Your credit balance. One balance covers every connected account. Daily checks cost 0.25 credits a day for each account.
  • Your Hero AI usage. Hero Marketer tracks the limit of 10 saved chats per Google Ads account, but the credits those chats spend come from the one shared balance.
  • Your alert and automation settings. They apply to every account that you connect.
  • Your billing settings.

Work in a different connected account​

Once you connect a second Google Ads account, the account switcher at the top of the sidebar lets you move between them. This is different from connecting a new account. When you connect, you add an account that is not yet in Hero Marketer. When you switch, you move between accounts you have already connected. To move between connected accounts, see Switch between accounts.

Connect client accounts under a Google manager (MCC)​

If you sign in with a manager account (MCC), the list shows the enabled client accounts directly under that manager. Client accounts under a sub-manager do not show. To add one of those accounts, sign in with the sub-manager login or with a login that has direct access.

To add another client of the same manager, click Connect account again. On Google's screen, choose the same Google login. Then pick a different client account. You connect client accounts one at a time.

If you manage several client accounts​

Put each client in its own business. Pick A new business when you connect the first account of a client. Then each client keeps its own products. You can connect up to 10 client accounts, one at a time. Each client account has its own dashboards, reports, and Hero AI chats. Each client account costs 0.25 credits a day while daily checks run. One credit balance pays for every account.

Your alert and automation settings apply to every client account. Hero Marketer has no view that combines client accounts. It has no team seats and no client invites.

Add an account under the same or a different Google login​

  • Same Google login, different account. Click Connect account. On Google's screen, choose the same Google login. Then pick a different account from the list.
  • Different Google login. Click Connect account. On Google's screen, sign in with the other Google login.

Remove a Google Ads account​

To stop managing a Google Ads account through Hero Marketer, disconnect it. A disconnect stops daily checks for that account. Your live campaigns in Google Ads keep running. See Disconnect Google Ads.

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