ConversionCategoryName not compatible with field Conversions?

Joe Rosenwald

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Sep 26, 2016, 12:10:14 PM9/26/16

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Why is it that the ConversionCategoryName is incompatible with Conversions metric for the Shopping Performance Report?

I want to be able to only get Conversions that are from Purchase/Sale

Are PLAs/Shopping only purchase sale?

Also, what is the difference between ConversionCategoryName and ConversionTypeName?

Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team)

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Sep 27, 2016, 8:59:34 AM9/27/16

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Hi,

Please see my responses below.

Cheers,

Josh, AdWords API Team

On Monday, September 26, 2016 at 12:10:14 PM UTC-4, Joe Rosenwald wrote:

Why is it that the ConversionCategoryName is incompatible with Conversions metric for the Shopping Performance Report?

Good question -- I'm looking into this one and will get back to you.

I want to be able to only get Conversions that are from Purchase/Sale

Which ConversionTypes are included in the Conversion metric is determined by the ConversionTracker.excludeFromBidding attribute. A value of false means that conversions from the tracker will be included in Conversions.

Are PLAs/Shopping only purchase sale?

This depends on which ConversionTypes (and their categories) you choose to trigger from your shopping ads.

Also, what is the difference between ConversionCategoryName and ConversionTypeName?

ConversionCategoryName is one of the predefined values listed for the ConversionTracker.category enum, so you could, for example, have multiple ConversionTracker objects with the same category. In contrast, ConversionTypeName is the unique name of the individual ConversionTracker.

Sam Shmeil

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Dec 8, 2016, 4:32:06 PM12/8/16

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Hi, any update?

Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team)

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Dec 9, 2016, 10:52:52 AM12/9/16

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Hi,

I'm still waiting for a response from our reporting team on this question:

Why is it that the ConversionCategoryName is incompatible with Conversions metric for the Shopping Performance Report?

I'll ask them again for an update and post back here when I have more information.

Thanks,

Josh, AdWords API Team

Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team)

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Jan 5, 2017, 11:16:22 AM1/5/17

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Hi,

Good news: the restriction on Conversions + ConversionCategoryName has been lifted, and I just updated our report documentation as well. Please give your report request another try and let me know if you encounter any issues.