Not sure if this is the right sub for this question, apologies in advance if it's not.

We're in the process of redoing our MDM solution, switching from a poorly configured BYOD profile setup to proper fully-managed Corporate Owned devices. Currently using MaaS360 but will be switching to Intune.

We have an in-house app that we need to be able to deploy to devices, and it seems the proper way to do this is to upload it to the Private section of Managed Google Play so that it can be deployed with Android Enterprise.

However it seems that to do this, you need a Google Admin Console account, which I can't seem to figure out how to actually create. I have an existing Google account created under my company email address (rather than a Gmail address), but when I go to https://admin.google.com and try to sign in, I get the following:

Sign in with an administrator account To sign in to admin.google.com, use an administrator account for a managed Google service, such as Google Workspace or Cloud Identity.

However I can't seem to find a way to actually create this Admin account.

I am able to sign in to https://play.google.com/work/adminsettings where I have myself and the rest of our IT team listed as Administrators, but this seems to be different from the Admin Console.

Maybe I'm just blind and not seeing it, but how do I actually create this Admin Console account so that we can have access to Private Managed Google Play?

Does it require paying for a Google Workspace account? We're a Microsoft shop so we already have 365 implemented, don't need the whole Google suite of software, just need to access Private Managed Google Play specifically.

EDIT: Nvm I'm dumb, in the Managed Google Play applet there's a Private section with a big-ass button to upload your own apps. Issue resolved.

Dear community,

I've signed up to google workspace for a non profit organization, which has been validated by google last week. I've received an email inviting me to connect to admin.google.com but every time I enter my organization email and password, it redirect me to the same login page, even if I'm already logged in with the same account in chrome.
I've tried everything on google help page regarding that issue but nothing works. And I can't contact support because the first step to reach it is to sign up to admin console... Except the last option which requires to have a X account, which I don't (and don't want).

Any help is welcome
Thanks