Connect an extension and manage your workspace
This page covers the Connect page that links a Chrome extension to your PPC Ad Editor workspace, and the Manage workspace and Settings pages for AdScanner.
Connect an extension to your workspace
Connecting links the AdScanner or AdMinerX Chrome extension to your workspace. For AdScanner, the Connect page says it turns on job history and Send to Studio, and that your captures stay in the extension either way. For the AdMinerX extension, see the note below.
- Open the extension's popup. In AdScanner, click Connect your account. In AdMinerX, click Connect.
- Chrome may ask for permission to talk to PPC Ad Editor. Allow it. The popup then opens Connect AdScanner or Connect AdMinerX in PPC Ad Editor. Sign in if you are asked to.
- Click Connect this extension.
- When the page says AdScanner is connected or AdMinerX is connected, you can close the tab. AdScanner extension captures then appear in AdScanner job history.
Connecting the AdMinerX extension does not save its captures
AdMinerX extension captures stay in your browser, even when the extension is connected. They do not reach AdMinerX job history. The Connect AdMinerX page says so, and after a capture the popup says captures from this extension are not saved to your AdMinerX account. You can still download them from the popup. To keep a search in your account, save the Google results page and use Upload saved page (.html) on the AdMinerX page. That upload is the capture you can keep and send to the editor.
Do I have to connect to capture with the AdMinerX extension?
No. Capturing and Download .xlsx in the AdMinerX popup work without an account. Connecting only links the extension to your workspace.
If the Connect page shows a problem
- Start from the extension. You opened the page without the popup's one-time code. Click connect in the extension's popup.
- That extension is not installed in this browser. Add the extension first, then start from its popup.
- That connect link has expired. Open the extension popup and click Connect again.
- This link points at an extension we do not recognise. Start the connection from the extension's own popup.
- That extension did not identify itself as AdScanner (or AdMinerX). Start the connection from the extension's own popup.
- The extension did not answer. Make sure the extension is installed and turned on, then try again from its popup.
- Connecting needs permission to talk to PPC Ad Editor. The popup shows this when the Chrome permission was not allowed. Click connect again and allow it.
What connecting shares
The extension gets a token for your workspace, never your PPC Ad Editor password or session. Disconnect in the popup takes that token away. Connecting again replaces the old token instead of adding a second one.
The Manage workspace page
The Manage workspace page for AdScanner and AdMinerX lists Members, Billing, Google Ads accounts and Security. Each row opens the matching PPC Ad Editor settings. Billing covers the Studio plan and invoices for this workspace, and the page says every tool in the left menu bills to this workspace. Manage workspace at the bottom of the left menu opens billing directly.
Settings in the left menu
Settings in the AdScanner section of the left menu opens your settings. Under Account there are Profile and Login & security. Under Workspace there are Plans & billing and Invoices & receipts. Under Studio there are Users & dashboards, Integrations and API Keys.
Why can't I see Plans & billing in Settings?
Plans & billing shows only for workspace members whose role can view billing. Invoices & receipts shows for everyone, but some roles see the invoice list with the amounts hidden, and only owners and billing members can download invoice PDFs. Ask a workspace owner if you need to change the plan.