---
key: add-an-account-location
title: Add an account location
audience: staff
section: accounts
routes: ["/account-locations", "/account-locations/new", "/accounts/:accountUid"]
permissions: ["crm.locations.create"]
features: ["crm.locations"]
since: 0.0.1
updated: 0.0.1
status: published
summary: Add a service or billing address to a lead or customer, find it with the address search, check the map pin, mark it primary, and save it.
keywords: [add address, service address, billing address, site, property, second property, new location, map pin, GPS, coordinates]
related: [edit-or-archive-an-account-location, create-an-account, track-a-service-asset]
---

In the sidebar, open **Accounts**, then **Account Locations**. The page address is `/account-locations`, and the new-location form opens at `/account-locations/new`. An account location is an address that belongs to an account: where you do the work, or where the bills go. One account can have several.

## Before you start

- The account has to exist first. If it does not, you can create it from inside the form as long as your role can create accounts.
- Already on the customer's account? Open the **Actions** menu (⋯) and select **Add account location**, or press **Add location** beside the **Account Locations** count in the side panel. The same form opens in a drawer on the account with the customer filled in, so you skip step 2.
- Picking a default address on the account's **Billing Settings** tab and the one you need is not there? Under **Contacts and locations**, open **Bill-to location**, **Ship-to location** or **Service location** and pick **Add a new location** at the bottom of the list. The same drawer opens for that customer.
- Your admin has to give your role the **Create locations** permission. Without it, **New location** does not appear.
- Location types (for example a service or a billing address) are set up by your admin. If the **Location type** list is empty, ask them.

## Steps

1. Press **New location** at the top of the Account Locations list. The **New account location** form opens as a page.
2. Under **Account**, type the customer's name in **Search accounts** and pick them.
3. Choose the **Location type**.
4. Under **Address**, start typing the address in the search box and pick it from the suggestions. Nova fills in the street, city, province or state, postal code and country, and drops the map pin on it. To type the address yourself, switch to **Manual**; **Address line 1**, **City**, **Postal/ZIP code** and **Country** are required.
5. Check the map. If the pin is not on the right spot (a long driveway, a rural lot), press **Move pin**, drag it to the exact place and confirm. No search result? Press **Set pin on map**. **Type coordinates instead** takes a latitude and longitude, and **Remove pin** clears it.
6. Turn on **Primary for this type** if this should be the main address of that type for the account, for example the main service address.
7. Add a **Label** if the address needs a name people will recognise, such as "Cottage" or "Warehouse". Leave **Timezone** alone unless the site is in a different time zone from your organization.
8. Type anything the crew should know in **Notes**, such as a gate code or where to park.
9. Press **Create location**.

## What you see

- Nova shows **Account location created** and opens the new location's details, with the pin where you left it.
- Back on the Account Locations list, the new row shows the address, its type, the account it belongs to and its status.
- If you used the drawer on an account, the drawer closes and the account's **Account Locations** section opens with the new address in it.
- If you started from a location list on **Billing Settings**, the drawer closes and the new address is already picked in that list and saved.

## If something looks different

- The form refuses with a message about the address: the street address, city, postal code and country are all required, and the empty ones are marked.
- There is no search box, only the address fields, with a note that address search isn't available: type the address in. The map pin can still be placed, or typed as coordinates.
- **No map pin yet** after saving a typed address: that is fine. Nova places the pin from the address when it can; you can also set it later from the location's details.
- **Select a location type** stays showing and the form refuses: pick a type before saving.
- **New location** is missing: your role cannot create locations.
- You want to change or archive an address that already exists: see [[edit-or-archive-an-account-location]].

[[route:/account-locations/new|Add a location]]