POST
/
citations
/
activate
cURL
curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.gmbapi.com/external-api/gmb/citations/activate \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "location_id": "<string>"
}
'
{
  "success": true,
  "payload": {
    "message": "Citations activation submitted",
    "location_id": "12654275338176815409",
    "order_number": "ORD-2026-000123",
    "billing_period": "MONTHLY"
  }
}
Restricted endpoint. Citations endpoints are only available to billing accounts that have been explicitly granted access by the GMBapi team. Calling this endpoint without that permission returns 403 Forbidden. Contact GMBapi support if you need access.
Submits a citations activation for a single location through the GMBapi citations service. The endpoint creates an order number and submits the location for the same billing_period the billing account is currently on.
Requires citations API access on the billing account. The location must have a name, country_code, primary category, address (or is_service_area = true) and either a phone number or a website before it can be activated.
Subject to a per-billing-account hourly quota (50 requests/hour, shared with POST /citations/disable). When another activation or disable request for the same location_id is already running, the endpoint returns 409 IN_PROGRESS.
The account_id query parameter follows the rest of the external API: required for organization-level tokens, ignored for account-level tokens (resolved from the JWT).

Authorizations

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Authorization
string
header
required

Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>, where <token> is your auth token.

Query Parameters

​
account_id
string

Account ID. Required when using an organization token; ignored for account-level tokens (resolved from the JWT).

Body

application/json
​
location_id
string
required

Location ID to activate citations for

Response

Citations activation submitted

Response returned after a successful citations activation submission

​
success
boolean
Example:

true

​
payload
object