Report Feature Request: Cost Adjustment Report (incl. Click Fraud)

[Charles PMD]

This is a specific report feature request surrounding cost and credit adjustments via the AdWords API.  Currently, we retrieve cost data on a daily basis, and compare the cost over time in order to retrieve the most accurate data and its adjustments.  However, at some point, the data from the API becomes frozen, and does not match the invoices we receive from Google. 

 

In our the New York API AdWords March Workshop, we discussed the potential for adding the credit adjustments as a separate item, or a new report.  This was well received.

 

Is there a possibility to add this as an additional field (or a new report) in order to get the most up to date and accurate information?  At the very least, at the campaign level.

 

Or, can the billing operations/numbers be exposed within the API?

 

[Kevin Winter (AdWords API Team)]

Hi,

  We don't have anything to announce at this time, but we will make sure the engineers hear this feedback.

- Kevin Winter

AdWords API Team

[Charles PMD]

Hi Kevin,

 

Thanks for the response.  Please let us know if there are any changes to status.

 

Just as an FYI, this does have a very large impact from a business perspective.  Clients who are running reports are making assumptions that the data is accurate, so a few hundred dollars a day makes a difference towards optimizating their campaigns against budget.

 

Thanks!

Charles

[rsc...@levelwing.com]

Hi Kevin,

Any word on this feature yet?  I think for all parties involved, this would be a great addition.  The theoretical work-around we have to use right now is a rolling-window full report reconciliation, meaning that we have to pull our report once for the metrics we need, and then again X number of days in the future to reconcile any invalid activity that's been credited to our account.  The ability to have a report at the keyword/ad level that shows negative amounts credited to our account would be quicker for us and less taxing on the calls for Google.  Thanks

[kowal]

Hi all

Any chance that this is already available somewhere in the API? I couldn't found anything but maybe this data could be retrieved from API using several requests to various endpoints?

Any help would be appreciated.

[Anthony Madrigal]

Hi guys,

Just wanted to let you know that InvalidClicks is currently available in AdWords API.

Cheers,

Anthony

AdWords API Team