As an Adsense publisher, until a few years ago, you could not change payee name and country in your Google Adsense account, but now it’s possible to change these both. The reason is; because Google has expanded the options and features in its Adsense program over the last years and months, so that publishers can utilize all the options available to them. Let’s see how we can change payee name and country in Adsense account.
How to Change Adsense Payee Name?
In order to change the payee name or add another payee name to your Adsense account, you’ll have to login to your Adsense account and then follow below steps, there is a screenshot below the steps:
- Click the “Gear Option”
on top right of your Adsense dashboard
- Click “Payments” and then click “Payee Profile“
- On the footer of the page, you’ll see “Billing Contacts“
- You can add a new contact or can edit the existing one
See below pictures for taking the steps in your Adsense account. I’ve highlighted the steps in red circles.
Step #1
Step #2
The above information means, you can easily change your Adsense Payee name and also you can add another person to collect the payment. It was not possible a few years ago, and many people were worried about mistakes in their payee names which they entered in the Adsense account at first place. However, it will not be the future case.
How to Change Country in Adsense Account?
You can change country in Adsense account, but not all publishers can change the country. The reason which Google mentioned on their help pages was exactly like this:
Reason #1: The payment currency in your account currently isn’t available as a payment currency in your new country.
Reason #2: You’re changing your country to a country outside of your contracting entity.
Now the above lines are very difficult to understand, but what I got out of it was that you can’t change your country if your new country doesn’t support the payment currency which you previously had in your account. For example, if you had USD in your account as currency and now you want to move to Japan then USD is not a payment currency in Japan, so you won’t be able to do this.
And the second line says something about contracting entity, that’s mean your Adsense account is associated with a Google entity which might either be in Ireland, United States, Singapore or China. The Singapore office actually handles all the payments and other Adsense related issues for South Asian and Southeast Asian publishers. In this case, if you want to change your country to another region like from Singapore to Ireland then it won’t work (Ireland office handles the European countries).
I hope, I’ve explained something in which you might have been interested, if you have any questions regarding this post in particular or related to Adsense in general then you can ask that in the comment section below. I’ll be there to answer all of your questions within a few hours.
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