Can't remove a budget

[Igor Grigorev]

I'm doing everything as was told at the 

https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/guides/budgets#removing_a_budget

. The code runs smoothly without an error, but I'm getting Budget with status "ENABLED" as a result. It seems like my remove operation didn't make any changes to the Budget.

Here goes the function which I'm using to remove the Budget and SOAP XMLs follow.

def remove_budget(budget_service, budget_id):

'''function to remove budget

https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/guides/budgets#common_errors

we need this because there is a limitation on a number of the budget instances

we are allowed to create'''

# Construct operations to remove budget.

budget = {

'budgetId': budget_id,

'status': 'REMOVED'

}

operations = [{

'operator': 'SET',

'operand': budget

}]

budgets = budget_service.mutate(operations)

return budgets

# Here goes SOAP XML:

[2020-03-05 20:03:01,764 - googleads.soap - INFO] Request made: Service: "BudgetService" Method: "mutate" URL: "https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201809/BudgetService" [2020-03-05 20:03:01,766 - googleads.soap - DEBUG] Outgoing request: {'SOAPAction': '""', 'Content-Type': 'text/xml; charset=utf-8', 'authorization': 'REDACTED'} <soap-env:Envelope xmlns:soap-env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"> <soap-env:Header> <ns0:RequestHeader xmlns:ns0="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201809"> <ns0:clientCustomerId> ANONYMYZED </ns0:clientCustomerId> <ns0:developerToken>REDACTED</ns0:developerToken> <ns0:userAgent>Zavient (AwApi-Python, googleads/22.0.0, Python/3.7.3, zeep)</ns0:userAgent> <ns0:validateOnly>false</ns0:validateOnly> <ns0:partialFailure>false</ns0:partialFailure> </ns0:RequestHeader> </soap-env:Header> <soap-env:Body> <ns0:mutate xmlns:ns0="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201809"> <ns0:operations> <ns0:operator>SET</ns0:operator> <ns0:operand> <ns0:budgetId>ANONYMYZED</ns0:budgetId> <ns0:status>REMOVED</ns0:status> </ns0:operand> </ns0:operations> </ns0:mutate> </soap-env:Body> </soap-env:Envelope> [2020-03-05 20:03:04,074 - googleads.soap - DEBUG] Incoming response: b'<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">\n <soap:Header>\n

<ResponseHeader xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201809">\n

<requestId> ANONYMYZED </requestId>\n

<serviceName>BudgetService</serviceName>\n <methodName>mutate</methodName>\n

<operations>1</operations>\n <responseTime>218</responseTime>\n

</ResponseHeader>\n </soap:Header>\n <soap:Body>\n

<mutateResponse xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201809">\n

<rval>\n <ListReturnValue.Type>BudgetReturnValue</ListReturnValue.Type>\n <value>\n

<budgetId> ANONYMYZED </budgetId>\n

<name> ANONYMYZED </name>\n

<amount>\n <ComparableValue.Type>Money</ComparableValue.Type>\n <microAmount>1100000</microAmount>\n </amount>\n

<deliveryMethod>STANDARD</deliveryMethod>\n

<isExplicitlyShared>false</isExplicitlyShared>\n

<status>ENABLED</status>\n </value>\n </rval>\n </mutateResponse>\n </soap:Body>\n</soap:Envelope>\n'

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hi Igor,

Can you please reply privately to author your full SOAP logs which include your client customer ID so I can take a closer look?

Thanks,
Anthony
Google Ads API Team

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[Franklin Buitron]

Hello.

We are experiencing the same issue:

Sending a SET operation with budgetId and status REMOVED, as the documentation states. But the Budget is not being deleted. We get back the full Budget with status ENABLED.
Updating the Budget in any other way it works, it just doesn't let us REMOVE.

Any updates would be great

Tks

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hello,

Thanks for following up. I recommend trying this operation with the new Ads API, as the attention is shifting to this new API since the AdWords API will sunset next April. You can find guidance on removing budgets in the new Ads API here.

Regards,
Matt
Google Ads API Team

Matt Google Ads API Team

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