GMB pre-production profile registration

[rivsrush]

Hello,

Thank you in advanced for all your expert input.

We are about a month away before beginning to serve our customers and launching our website.

We already have our company registered with the state, but we are doing some integrations with G.

Does G allow some sort of preproduction GMB profile registration with sandbox environment so

that we can begin integration?

 

[koen12344]

They don't really have a sandbox environment unfortunately. However your GMB listing won't be public until it is fully verified.

 

[Colan Nielsen]

@rivsrush you can create a GMB page up to 90 days before opening to the public.

Here's the help center doc - Add a business before it opens - Google My Business Help

 

[Tim Colling]

However, you CAN publish a GMB listing with an "opening date" that is up to one month in the future. Kind a "coming soon" sort of thing.

 

[Tim Colling]

Hehe... @Colan Nielsen beat me to it by a few seconds. I thought the limit was 30 days in advance but I defer to his knowledge.

 

[rivsrush]

Thank you for your professional replies!

 

[rivsrush]

Is it possible to setup business calendar, recaptcha and email with custom domain at this pre-production mode?
Apreciate your input!

 

[Tim Colling]

@rivsrush, those are all Google services that are different from the Google My Business service, and you should not have any problems with those those things. Are you going to use G Suite for the email and calendar setup?

 

[rivsrush]

Thank you for reply!
Yes, exactly, we are going to integrate with G Mail and Calendar.
So you had basically mentioned that GMB and G Suite is a different product/services and we can move with G Suite for integration?

 

[Tim Colling]

I'm not sure what you mean by "integration" but yes, they are independent from one another.

 

[rivsrush]

Thank you for reply and asking.
I meant The future local business website we are working on require a G Calendar Api calls/integration. So we has been a bit confused how to proceed, with GMB or G Suite.