Free agency client onboarding · by kitchn.io
Send your client a single link. They share their Meta, Google and Shopify access in minutes, without passwords and without screenshots, and you see exactly what is ready and what is still missing.
Built by the team behind kitchn.io, the ad launch platform for paid social teams.
Access request from
Northlight Studio
To run your paid social and search, Northlight needs:
No password is ever asked for.
Agency Client OnboardingClients click through five different admin screens, send the wrong ID, invite the wrong email and ask you to try again.
Is the Pixel shared, or only the ad account? Did the Google Ads invitation get accepted? You find out when a campaign fails to launch.
When sharing gets too hard, someone sends a login. It is the one thing nobody should ever do with an ad account.
How it works
Choose the platforms and assets for this client, and the level of access for each. Save it as a template: its public link lets every new client start their own request.
Your client signs in to Meta, Google or Shopify themselves, picks the exact accounts, sees who gets access and approves it. No kitchn account needed.
Each asset shows its own state: verified, waiting for approval, or one step left, with the exact next action. Start work when it is green.
kitchn is the ad launch platform for paid social teams at agencies and D2C brands. We see every week how long it takes before an agency can even start with a new client, so we built the tool we wanted our customers to have.
It uses Meta's and Google's own sign-in and sharing, is hosted in Germany, and stays free: it is how agencies get to know kitchn.
For your clients
Clients sign in on Meta's and Google's own pages. Agency Client Onboarding never sees or stores a password.
Nothing is pre-selected. Clients see each account by name and ID, pick exactly what to share, and see who receives it.
Agencies get access through the platform's own partner and user settings, so the client can review or remove it there at any time.
Where a platform does not allow sharing through an app, the client gets a short guide instead of a green tick that is not true.
Platforms
Meta, Google and Shopify work today. Where a platform lets us, access is shared for your client; where it does not yet, your client gets short steps and we confirm the result. More platforms come in the order agencies ask for them.
Meta and Google Ads
Tracking and shop
Access tools usually charge per client. Agency Client Onboarding is free, because it is how agencies get to know kitchn. There is no card to enter and no client limit to hit after the third onboarding.
We are letting agencies in one by one. Create your account and tell us a little about your agency.
Where each ID is, what to click, and what Meta and Google require in 2026.
White label
How an agency serves its client access links from its own subdomain, like access.youragency.com: the CNAME and TXT records, the certificate, and what happens when a client signs in.
October 01, 2026 · 2 min read
Where your Google Ads manager account ID is, how it differs from a client account ID, and why clients link their account to it instead of adding you as a user.
October 01, 2026 · 2 min read
Meta
Where the Business ID of a Meta business portfolio is, how it differs from an ad account ID and a Page ID, and which one your clients need to give you access.
October 01, 2026 · 2 min read
No. They open your link, sign in to Meta or Google on the platform's own page, choose what to share and are done.
Your agency: your Meta business, your Google Ads manager account, your Google account, your Shopify Partner account. Agency Client Onboarding runs the request; it does not become a middleman on your clients' accounts.
No more than the flow needs. The access your agency receives lives in the platform itself, and removing it happens there, like any other partner.
It stays as it is. Agency Client Onboarding shows it as already there rather than asking for it again, and never lowers an existing role.
Yes. Agency Client Onboarding is how agencies get to know kitchn, and client onboarding stays free. Only white label (your logo, your sender address, your link domain) is an optional paid extra.
Now, in early access: we let agencies from the list in one by one. Meta, Google and Shopify work; until Meta and Google finish reviewing our app, some accounts go through short manual steps instead of being shared for your client.