How to add an Administrator to your Google domain

Google Workspace for your domain is managed by an administrator, who can do tasks like set up new email addresses/security policies/manage groups etc.
Usually the first user (or email address) you setup is the administrator. Often we will need an administrator account on your domain to be able to perform various tasks for you, here’s how to set that up.

• There are two approaches to this, You can let us use your current administrator account, or you can create a separate, new administrator account, which will cost around $6us+ per month on your Google billing, we’ll explore how to do that below:

Creating an Administrator Account

1. Log in to Google Domains.
   • Important: Log in to Google Domains with the Google account you used to sign up for Google Workspace. In most cases, the Google Workspace admin account is not the Google Domains account.
2. Select the name of your domain.
3. Open the menu by clicking on this ->  .
4. Click on Email.
5. Under “Add or remove people from Google Workspace”, click Add user and enter the new user’s first name (we suggest your domain name here), last name (we suggest ‘Admin’ here), and ‘admin’ as the user name. So the email address will be admin@yourdomainname.com
6. Select the role, Admin
7. Click Add.

On your next month’s billing date, Google charges you for the total number of active Google Workspace users at $6 USD per Business Starter, $12 USD per Business Standard user or $18 USD per Business Plus user. Google prorates your payment for the new user for the previous month.