You’re an app developer and you want to spend your time developing apps, not managing your account. That said, sometimes a little account maintenance is necessary. Maybe you need to update your name or add some new users. The good news is we’ve just added some new features to make updating your account easier and completely self-serve!
Here are four tips to make updating your Amazon Developer account as simple as possible:
What if you’re regretting that name you thought was cool last week, but now feels outdated, boring, or maybe a little embarrassing? As we discussed recently, having a great name is crucial to your app’s success. It’s the way customers will know who you are, learn to trust you, and find all your apps. It helps your customers easily find and recognize you and your apps.
So if you want to change your name, do you need to close your account and open a new one? No you do not! You can update it right from the Developer Console.
Updating your account name just became a whole lot easier. It’s now self-serve:
- The owner of the account can sign in to the Developer Console.
- On the top navigation bar, select Settings.
- Select Company Profile in the sub-navigation bar.
- Click Edit.
- In the Developer name or company name field, enter the new company name.
- Click Save.
Did somebody new join your company? Are you bringing on new collaborators for app development, marketing, or accounting? Giving them their own login can help streamline collaboration and make managing a team more efficient.
Any administrator can add a new user like this:
- Sign in to the Developer Console.
- Go to Settings > User Permissions.
- Click Add New.
- Type the user's email address and select their role.
- After you finish adding users and configuring roles, click Save.
After you add a user, the Developer Console sends an email invitation to them, which they just need to accept.
Speaking of administrators and roles, what are those?
There are four roles that each user on a company’s developer account can have — Administrator, Marketer, Developer, and Analyst — and each role has its own set of permissions.
- Administrator: This role grants complete access to all sections of the developer account, including reporting and payment information. Most importantly, any account administrator has the ability to manage user permissions, including inviting or removing users from the account.
- Developer: Outside of an Administrator, this is the only role that gives users the ability submit and adjust application files.
- Marketer: Outside of an Administrator, this is the only role that gives users the ability to edit the content associated with apps (for example, descriptions and images) and IAPs. Like the Analyst, this role also gives access to sales reports.
- Analyst: Outside of an Administrator, this is the only role that gives users the ability to view earnings reports. Like the Marketer, this role also gives users access to sales reports.
What if you’ve sold your company (congratulations!), or you’re moving a new role at your company, or you’re changing email addresses?
Do you need to create a new account? No you do not!
You just need to update the account owner and, just like updating your developer name, this experience is now self-serve. This ensures continuity in account management without the risk of lost customers, data, or payments, which can come with closing an account, opening a new one, or transferring an app.
The account owner is the only user on your Amazon Developer account that cannot be removed by another account administrator and it is the only user that can close the account. Every Amazon Developer account will have a single account owner. By default, this is the user that created the account.
To change the owner of the developer account, you must currently be the owner. You can only transfer ownership to another account administrator.
Just follow these steps:
- Sign in to the Developer Console.
- On the top navigation bar, select Settings.
- Select the User Permissions in the sub-navigation bar.
- Next to an administrative user, click Change ownership.
- To assign a new owner, select the radio button next to a user, then click Save.
That’s just a few of the tips we’ve put together about updating your Amazon Developer account. To see the rest, go to our Amazon Developer community space and check out the appstore-account topic, which we’ve added to all our related articles.
If you have any account-related issues or question, be sure to let us know!
