This account is where your app will be published, managed, and maintained on the Google Play Store. From here, you can manage your store listing, promotions, or set prices for tours or games sold in-app.
In this guide:
A. Account Creation
B. Invite Locatify Team as Admins
Your own account vs. hosting under Locatify
This guide walks you through creating your own Google Play Console developer account — the recommended path, since it gives you full ownership and control over your app.
If you're unable to create your own account, your app can instead be hosted under Locatify's developer account. In that case:
- In-app purchases won't be available (e.g., selling tours or games in-app), since payments would go directly to Locatify.
- Locatify will appear as the developer name on your app's Play Store listing, since the app is published under Locatify's account.
If you'd like to go this route instead, select "Host under Locatify's developer accounts" under Developer Accounts — no further steps in this guide are needed.
A. Account Creation
1. Before you begin, you will need to sign up to your Google account or if you don’t have one, create an account by clicking on the following link: hptts://accounts.google.com/SignUp
2. Open your browser and type play.google.com/console or click directly on that link: Pre-registration | Google Play Console
3. Choose the account type: Organization
To create a developer account, Google will request the following to verify your account:
- A D-U-N-S number for your organization
- A contact phone number and email address for Google Play users
- A contact phone number and email address for Google
- A form of payment (to pay the one-time USD 25 registration fee)
4. Click on Get Started
5. Add your developer's name. This is what users will see on Google Play to represent your developer profile and apps. It can be different from the legal name of your organization and can be changed later. It has to be unique and can contain a maximum of 50 characters.
Example: TurfHunt
6. Create a payment profile: Add your organization’s address and your phone number. Your phone number has to be valid; Google will request to verify your account by sending you a code.
7. After receiving your confirmation code, enter the code and click on Verify, then Next.
8. Apps. This page concerns your App Development Plan. You will be asked:
- the number of Apps you are planning to publish (1; 2 to 5; 6 to 10 or more than 10). We suggest choosing more than 1 app even if you only have one app, this is to allow some margin of error.
- Earning Money on Google Play: select the options that apply to your project. You have options such as In-App Purchases and others.
- App categories: select the options applicable to your app or select none of the above if your app does not fall under any of these categories. Click on Next.
9. Terms: read and accept the terms of Google Play Console. It is recommended that you read Google Play developer distribution agreement and Google Play console terms of services. Click both check boxes to proceed.
10. Pay Registration Fees: there is a US$25 one-time registration fee that you can pay with the following credit or debit cards:
- - MasterCard
- - Visa
- - American Express
- - Discover (the U.S. only)
- - Visa Electron (Outside of the U.S. only)
- Note: Prepaid cards are not accepted. The types of cards accepted may vary by location.
11. Now your Developer Account is created!
12. Click on Go to Play Console. In the dashboard, you will be asked to Verify your ID, follow the instructions, and upload a valid ID. The validation process can take a few hours to 2 business days. To find out if this is validated, connect to your account, it will be mentioned there when it’s ready.
13. Finish setting up your developer account. Once your ID is submitted, Google Play may ask you to complete a few more verification steps before you can publish apps:
- Verify your organization's website — if you don't have one, a simple landing page (even a single page with basic information about your organization) is usually enough to complete this step.
- Verify your phone numbers (only the account owner can complete this step)
These steps help Google confirm your identity, protect your account, and keep Play Store users safe. Follow the on-screen instructions for each; once complete, your account will be fully ready to publish apps.
From here, you may see an option to "Create your first app." Please leave this step to the Locatify team — we'll create the app entry once your account is set up and the Locatify team has been invited as Admins.
B. Invite Locatify Team as Admins
1. Last Step, invite Locatify accounts to your account: User and permissions<Invite new user
2. Add the 3 following email addresses with Admin rights: Account Permissions < Admin < Invite User
- brandedapp@locatify.com
- jackfengji@locatify.com
- dev@locatify.com