Google Base multiple accounts

August 24th, 2006

After successfully traversing Google Base last week I quickly realised that you can only upload one client’s data per account. This is obviously a problem if you serve multiple clients. You don’t want to be setting up an account for each client!

After a bit of searching I found a link to how do i set up a multi-user account?. Ah ha I thought, this wont be that bad after all…Thats until I read what I had to do to obtain this account! Put simply you have to manually email google with the file name of the database, the company name and various other details for every new client you wish to add! Google will then email back (after about 3 days) with confirmation of the new multi account and then you upload as normal. Every subsequent client you wish to add has to be emailed in the same fashion.

This very clumsy method is hopefully only a stop gap for some unfinished part of the site. As I said in my previous article, Google clearly still have outstanding issues with their new Base system which will hopefully be rectified in the near future.