How to Grant Your New Development Agency Access to Your Google Cloud Project

Let’s quickly chat about granting access to your Google Cloud project.

Google Cloud is a platform that helps support the behind-the-scenes systems your e-commerce business relies on as it grows. It’s commonly used to handle things like traffic spikes, custom integrations, background processing, data syncing, and automation that go beyond what standard hosting can comfortably support. Most customers never see it directly, but it plays a key role in keeping checkouts stable, data accurate, and systems responsive during busy periods. For growing stores, it provides a reliable foundation that can scale with demand without requiring a major overhaul upfront.

Steps Granting Access to your Google Cloud

1. Visit cloud.google.com and click “Sign In”
2. Sign in to the Google Account that you created the Cloud Project in.
3. Select the project that you want to grant access to. If you only have 1, select that one. If you have more than one, you should know which is the correct one, or pass this article to your IT person that does know.
4. Once you’re logged in and connected to the project, click on “IAM & Admin” in the left-hand navigation menu.
5. Select “IAM” (Identity and Access Management) out of that menu.
6. You should be looking at a list of people that have access. (It’s ok if there’s only your account on the list. That’s why you hired Renrah Development).
7. On that page click “Grant Access”.
8. Under “Add Principals” enter the email of who you’re trying to give access to.
9. Under “Assign Roles” select the appropriate roles for the user you’re adding. (See the section below about the different roles available)

Assigning Roles in Google Cloud

Roles and the granular level of permissions inside of Google Cloud are insane. You can give someone access to only edit a specific field inside of a BigQuery database on the 3rd new moon of the year (assuming it’s not a harvest moon).

Ok, not really but pretty close.

GENERALLY, you probably want to just grant the generic role of “Editor”. This gives access to make changes across all of the APIs connected to the project you’re granting access for. Obviously this depends on the level of trust you have with the person you’re adding to the account, but if Renrah Ltd is asking about it and sent you this article, we need it for a good reason.

A Warning About Trust

Giving someone Editor access to your Google Cloud project allows them to create many different things, some of which can incur additional charges to the billing account connected to the Google Cloud Project. Be careful with who you trust with this access.

If Renrah Development is asking for access, it’s because we need it to do the job you hired us to do. There’s no blind trust involved—our continued success depends on protecting your systems, your data, and your costs as carefully as we protect our own.

That’s All Folks

If you’re granting access to your Google Cloud account, that’s how you do it. If you need more specific permissions past just the general “editor’, check out Google’s docs on the subject or reach out to Renrah Development to get your Google Cloud permissions in order.