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Linking your Google Play Developer Account

Appfigures connects to your Google Play developer account directly and securely using advanced encryption and collects everything to track downloads and revenue for your apps, in-app purchases, subscriptions, and more.


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Linking your Google Play account will enable you to track the following with Appfigures:


  • App downloads and revenue
  • In-App Purchase downloads and revenue
  • Subscriptions revenue, MRR, Churn, and more
  • Hourly ranks
  • Ratings
  • Reviews
  • Featured placements


Connecting Your Google Play Account


Note: Managing linked accounts requires the Admin or Owner role. If you are a viewer, please share this article with a team member who has the required role.


  1. Log in to your Appfigures Account
  2. Click on your avatar (top right) and then on "My profile"
  3. Go to Linked Accounts
  4. Click on "Link an Account"
  5. Select Google Play from the list of providers
  6. Enter the email address and password for your Google account
  7. Click on "Add"


Important: **Upon linking for the first time, **Google alerts to a login from a geographic location that is different from your normal location.


We connect to your Google account from IPs based in the United States. More specifically, we have IPs in New York and Texas. As such, if you're not from New York or Texas you might see this notice in your Google account after linking us with your Google Play developer account.


To approve this notification, you must go back into your Google account follow these steps:


  1. Go into the 'Recent security activity' tab of your Google account: Notifications
  2. Check if you have received 'New sign-in' from 'New York, USA` alerts from Google. If yes, open the alert and reassure Google by answering "Yes, it was me".
  3. Go back to the Appfigures Linked Accounts page and re-enter the credentials for your Google account.


Appfigures will now verify your information and connect your account. You may be asked to verify with Google during this process.



Creating a Sub User in the Play Console


To restrict access to only sales data, we recommend creating a separate Google account with limited permissions and using it instead of your main Google account.


You'll need to have admin privileges with Google to continue with this process.


  1. Start by logging into your Google Play Developer Console. 
  2. Click on Users and permissions
  3. Select Invite new users
  4. Give the sub-user an email that isn't your main email, but you have access to.
  5. Set Access expiry date to Never
  6. Next, give the new user permissions through the Account permissions tab:


  • App Access → View app information and download bulk reports (read-only)
  • Financial access → View financial data, orders, and cancellation survey responses
  • User Feedback → Reply to reviews



Important: These permissions provide read-only access to reports, so we'll only be able to get reports and won't have the ability to manage your apps or banking information.


  1. Click on Invite user
  2. Check your email. Google will send an email to the address you provided. Follow the instructions in the

email to complete the setup.

  1. Head back into your Appfigures account to complete the steps from "Connect Your Google Play account". Go to your profile → Linked Accounts to connect the Google Play account with the new credentials.


When creating a new subaccount, Google will take about 24 to 48 hours to fully process the new account + permissions. Downloadable reports will be available once that's completed on Google's end, and importing sales reports will begin once those are detected.



Linking with Google Workspace (formerly known as GSuite Setup)


If you're a part of a Workspace account, you'll need to make sure to whitelist the Appfigures app.


Workspace has a standard default period of 14 days. This means, unless you increase the verification window with Google, you will need to re-verify the account every two weeks.



Permission checks to run within Google Workspace:


Allow Workspace users to access Google Cloud Platform


  1. Go to Apps → Additional Google Services
  2. Make sure that Google Cloud Platform and Google Play Console are ON for everyone or the accounts you would like to link to Appfigures.


With Workspace, you should ensure that Reauthentication is set to allow trusted apps:


Google's documentation


  1. Go to Security → Google Cloud Session Control
  2. If Require reauthentication is set, also set Exempt Trusted apps if Never require reauthentication is set no changes are required.


Whitelisting in Google Workspace:


1. Go to the G Suite Trusted App Panel. If you don’t have access to this and are a G Suite organizational user, you might need to ask a G Suite administrator to follow these steps.

2. Click the "Whitelist An App" button in the lower-right of the page.

3. Fill in the following, depending on the type of account you're linking:


Google Play


Google Ads (Adwords)


4. Submit, and we should now be able to sync your Google Play account.


Support for Google's Offline One Time Password


  1. Follow the steps from Connecting your Google Play Account
  2. Then, log into your Google app and click on your icon in the top right corner.
  3. Click on "Manage Your Google Account".
  4. Go to your Security tab.
  5. Open the section for "Security Code".
  6. Lastly, add the security code from step 4 into the prompt in Appfigures.




Why Am I Seeing A Login from NYC?


We use a sophisticated automated data importing system to bring in reports from your Google Play Developer Console. Because Google does not offer a direct API for all of the data we need to fully automate the process, we've built our own process to do that. This process emulates a browser to sync reports securely and automatically without ever exposing your credentials.


If the IP address associated with the login is 204.145.71.20 this is perfectly normal.

This process is completely automated, secure, and is only used to sync data reports from your Google Developer Console. No other areas of your Google account (like your Gmail account) are ever accessed.


Even though this is a perfectly normal and secure process, in some cases, it triggers Google's anti-fraud measures when syncing for the first time, particularly for Google accounts based outside of New York and the United States. This should only happen once. As we continue to sync your account, Google learns and will not alert you again.


Noteworthy


SSO Systems Supported When Connecting to Google's Developer Account:

  • Okta
  • OneLogin
  • Entra ID (Azure)
  • JumpCloud


While these four systems are supported fully, any other SSO system should work out of the box as well.

Updated on: 04/12/2025