INVALID_BILLING_ACCOUNT when trying to add budget order to a new managed account

[Eugene Zinin]

I have a managing account with a credit line. I'm creating new managed accounts and add budgets through the service BudgetOrderService. All worked fine but about a month ago I started to get an error:

Request made: Service: BudgetOrderService Method: mutate clientCustomerId: 111111111 URL: https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/billing/v201806/BudgetOrderService Request ID: 00056f9cb9ada6e00ac103417802ae84 ResponseTime(ms): 77 OperationsCount: 1 IsFault: true FaultMessage: ApiException{applicationExceptionType=ApiException, errors=[BudgetOrderError{apiErrorType=BudgetOrderError, errorString=BudgetOrderError.INVALID_BILLING_ACCOUNT, fieldPath=operations[0].operand, fieldPathElements=[FieldPathElement{field=operations, index=0}, FieldPathElement{field=operand}], reason=INVALID_BILLING_ACCOUNT, trigger=}]}

That's weird because I get billing account just before adding a budget order. Just as documented in Adwords documentation. And it worked. And I still can add a budget order manually through adwords web interface. Also creating a budget order still works for my older managed accounts which already had budget orders.

The code:

val billingAccount = budgetOrderService.getBillingAccounts.head

val budgetOrder = new BudgetOrder
budgetOrder.setBillingAccountId(billingAccount.getId)
budgetOrder.setPrimaryBillingId(billingAccount.getPrimaryBillingId)
budgetOrder.setStartDateTime(Adwords.formatDateTime(DateTime.now.plusMinutes(5)))
budgetOrder.setEndDateTime("20350118 181818 Europe/Moscow")
budgetOrder.setSpendingLimit(new cm.Money(null, balance * 10000))

val op = new BudgetOrderOperation
op.setOperator(Operator.ADD)
op.setOperand(budgetOrder)

val response = budgetOrderService.mutate(Array(op))

[Dannison Yao (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Eugene,

The error INVALID_BILLING_ACCOUNT is encountered when the billing account used when creating a BudgetOrder is not a valid one. Could you confirm if the account has been set-up for consolidated billing by executing BudgetOrderService.getBillingAccounts() and confirm if the BillingAccountId is returned ? If not, please refer to this link under “Put an existing account on consolidated billing”  on how to set up your account.

Once this set-up is already done, you can try again your request and let me know if any issues occur.

Regards,

Dannison

AdWords API Team

[Eugene Zinin]

Hello,

As you can see in my code, I'm using a billing account just from output of budgetOrderService.getBillingAccounts.

[Dannison Yao (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Eugene,

To further investigate this, could you provide your complete SOAP request and response logs that was generated when the error was encountered along with your clientCustomerId via Reply privately to author?

[Eugene Zinin]

It turned out that I sent request with another customer id than I thought. It was the problem. It was very helpful to look at the generated SOAP request.

Thank you!