I don't have any special knowledge about that, but just based on the
text of the error, it sounds like you're trying to set a budget to X,
when more than X has already been spent. This would render the budget
meaningless, so AdWords won't let you make that change.
That's what it sounds like to me, at least.
Cheers,
-Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team
On Jul 3, 7:29 pm, Maxim <mse...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't have any special knowledge about that, but just based on the
> text of the error, it sounds like you're trying to set a budget to X,
> when more than X has already been spent. This would render the budget
> meaningless, so AdWords won't let you make that change.
I fully understand the message of the error, but I think that the
correct behavior would be to just replace the budget.
Consider this scenario.
Say I planned to spend $100,000 over a period of the year. That's my
budget 1 which I set on January 1.
By July 1, same year, $60,000 and I want to set the budget to $10,000
over period of the year. $10K is less then $40k remaing and less then
$60k already spend. Why did you say the budget is meaningless?
What it means is that between January 1 and June 30 I wanted to spend
$100,000/year, but the new budget should be $10,000/year beginning
July 1.
An analogy I could use is a car insurance policy where you paid a
$3000 premium a year to get $500,000 coverage and regardless of
whether you made any claims with this insurance policy, if you later
lower your coverage to $100,000 your remaining monthly premium should
go down. Basically, you cancel the old policy and buy a new policy.
Same here, no?
Apologies, I assumed you were referring to campaign-level budgets
here, which is what the public AdWords API supports. I overlooked the
subject line of your message.
I'm not familiar with the details of how account-level budgets are
set and the possible errors that might be returned when setting them.
I'll refer your question to someone more familiar with that and let
you know.
Cheers,
-Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team
On Jul 6, 11:31 pm, Maxim <mse...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I don't have any special knowledge about that, but just based on the
> > text of the error, it sounds like you're trying to set a budget to X,
> > when more than X has already been spent. This would render the budget
> > meaningless, so AdWords won't let you make that change.
> I fully understand the message of the error, but I think that the
> correct behavior would be to just replace the budget.
> Consider this scenario.
> Say I planned to spend $100,000 over a period of the year. That's my
> budget 1 which I set on January 1.
> By July 1, same year, $60,000 and I want to set the budget to $10,000
> over period of the year. $10K is less then $40k remaing and less then
> $60k already spend. Why did you say the budget is meaningless?
> What it means is that between January 1 and June 30 I wanted to spend
> $100,000/year, but the new budget should be $10,000/year beginning
> July 1.
> An analogy I could use is a car insurance policy where you paid a
> $3000 premium a year to get $500,000 coverage and regardless of
> whether you made any claims with this insurance policy, if you later
> lower your coverage to $100,000 your remaining monthly premium should
> go down. Basically, you cancel the old policy and buy a new policy.
> Same here, no?
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