Create biddable ProductPartition without setting CPC on Criterion level (Shopping campaigns)

[Jakub Adamus]

Hi, is there any possibilty to achieve creating new ProductPartition in ShoppingCampaing, which is Biddable, but with CPC set only at AdGroup level?

When i try to create BiddableAdGroupCriterion:

• without biddingStrategyConfiguration - error, it's required
  
• without biddingStrategyConfiguration.bids - error, it's required
  
• with biddingStrategyConfiguration.bids[].bid = 0 - erorr, it's invalid bid
  
• with biddingStrategyConfiguration.biddingStrategyType = 'NONE' - error, it's not permitted for shopping campaign
  

So is there any other way to create BiddableAdGroupCriterion (ProductPartition UNIT type) without setting CPC (and achieve CpcBidSource = GROUP instead of CRITERION). AdWords UI can do this.

[david]

I have no answer but just to let you know we encountered the same thing. Could not set up a product partition without setting en explicit bid.

Came to the conclusion there wasn't much value in having separate ad groups within a Shopping campaign at all. Just price at product partition level.

[Mat Scales (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Jakub, David,

At the moment every ProductPartition must have it's own bid, or a NegativeAdGroupCriterion in the case that you don't want to bid.

There is no way to fall back to the default bid for the AdGroup.

Cheers,

Mat

[Robert Kreuzer]

Hi Mat,

I just ran into the same problem and was wondering whether this is perhaps possible by now (given that your post is from 2 years ago)?
Is there any way to create a new ProductPartition, that inherits its CPC bid from the Adgroup, via the API?

Thanks,
Robert

[Shwetha Vastrad (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Robert,

I'm afraid this option is not available in the AdWords API as of now. Please keep an eye on our blog for any announcements about this feature.

Please create a new post for your query in the future to avoid spam of the original topic participants.

Regards,
Shwetha, AdWords API Team.