After
registering
your developer account,
setting it up
, and
preparing your extension
follow the steps in this article to publish your extension for the first time.
Upload your item
Use the following steps to upload your item:
- Go to the
Chrome Developer Dashboard
.
- Sign in to the developer account.
- Click the
Add new item
button.
- Click
Choose file
> your zip file >
Upload
. If your item's manifest and ZIP file are valid, you can edit your item on the next page.
Once you've uploaded your extension, you will see it as an item in the dashboard.
Fill out information about your item
Now you can fill out additional listing details in the left-hand menu. Here is a quick summary of the information you will need to fill out on each of these tabs. The links provided include detailed instructions on how to fill out each section.
- The Package tab displays details of your uploaded item. This page isn't editable when you first
create an item.
- The
Store Listing
tab contains details of your listing and how it will be displayed in the Chrome Web Store.
- The
Privacy
tab is where you declare your extension's single purpose and how your extension is handling user data.
- The
Distribution
tab lets declare if your extension is a paid item, which countries will list your item and the set of users that will see it.
Submit your item
After
filling out the information
about your item, you are ready to submit your item. When you click the
Submit for Review
button the following dialog appears, letting you confirm that you want to submit the item for review.
Deferred publishing option
The confirmation dialog shown above also lets you control the timing of your item's publishing. If
you uncheck the checkbox, your item will
not
be published immediately after its review is
complete. Instead, you'll be able to manually publish it at a time of your choosing once the review
is complete.
If you submit your item to publish automatically after review, you can still choose deferred publishing by selecting the
Defer publish
option located in the item's menu.
This lets you pause the release of a submitted item if you discover an error after submitting it or
if you simply want to change your release time.
You can check when your staged submission will expire under the status of your item.
The review process
After you submit the item for review, it will undergo a review process. The time for this review depends on the nature of your item. See
Understanding the review process
for more details.
There are important emails like take down or rejection notifications that are enabled by default. To receive an email notification when your item is published or staged, you can enable notifications on the
Account page
.
Additional resources