The Google Play Connect allows you to receive and respond to reviews from the Rwiz.

Before You Start

❗️IMPORTANT Service Accounts in Google Play Console can only be created by account owners. If you need to create one, you’ll need assistance from the owner of the Google Play Developer account or access to their account. Service Accounts cannot be created with an Admin role.

Create a Service Account

1. Go to Google Cloud Console and navigate to IAM & admin → Create a new project. The easiest way just search “create a project”.

   

2. Name a project

   

3. Select a newly created project

   

4. Confirm your account’s Enabled APIs
   

   

5.  In the API Library find and confirm that the following services are enabled:
   • Google Play Android Developer API: provides authentication services
   • Google Cloud APIs: grants access to historical review data
   • Cloud Storage API: also grants access to historical review data
   • Google Cloud Storage JSON API: provides access to current review data

   

6. Create a Service Account

   
   a. Name it and provide description if needed.

   

   b. Select Role: Basic → Browser, click Continue

   

   c. Click Done.

   

   NOTE  If you encounter the error message, “You don’t have permission to set policy on the project. The permission ‘resourcemanager.project.setIamPolicy’ is required to grant project-level permissions to the service account,” it indicates that you are not logged in as the owner of the Google Play Developer Console.

Generate a JSON File

The Service Account Key is a file that you’ll upload to Rwiz to establish a connection between Rwiz and the Google Play Console. In this step, a key will be generated and downloaded to your computer. Be sure to save it, as you’ll need it when configuring integrations in Rwiz.

After creating the Service Account, you’ll be redirected to the list of your Service Accounts in the Cloud Console.

1. Find a newly created account and click Actions → Manage keys
   
2. Click Add Key then Create new key
   

   

3.  Select JSON and Create new key

   

Grant Permissions to the Service Account

We’re almost there; we just need to grant permissions to the newly created account.

1. Go to the Users & Permission page on the Google Play Console and click Invite new users (2).

   

2. Put the email address from your service account (1) and click Account Permissions (2)

   

3. Make sure that “View app information and download bulk reports (read-only)” is checked

   

4. Reply to reviews also needs to be checked

   

5. Click Invite user
6. Go to Developer Account and copy Developer Name.
7. 

How to Set Up

1. Fill in the Developer ID (1) and copy the content from the downloaded JSON file (2) and click Save.

2. Done! 🎉