How to get changed AdWords Campaign data on test accounts? (Clicks, Cost, etc...)

[Alexander Strbac]

Hi everyone,

I appologize if this has been discussed but we are in the middle of an issue and need to appear before a client in a metter of days :| ... 

*** STATS ***

> problem product: ADWORDS API

> what we are building: application for managing Campaigns

> stage of our app: still in development, crude prototype

> which acc. we have set up: we have both the 'test AdWords account' and a 'test MCC account'; all set up and functional

> does it work: yes, we have successfully sent data to AdWords but not downloaded any

*** ISSUE ***

Basically, we have confirmed that the data upload works but we cannot test data download. AdWords accounts need to be live (in production) to generate impressions, cost, etc. which we wish to download into our app. My question is - how can we get this updated account-data from AdWords back into our app if test accounts cannot run ads, and therefore generate impressions, clicks, cost? We cannot connect an app which is still in development to production AdWords accounts, and we cannot run ads on test accounts.

Seems like a catch 22...

MANY thanks!

Alex

[Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Alex,

Although your test account won't serve any ads, you can still get reporting results back for that account by explicitly including zero impressions. The Impressions, Cost, etc. stats will all be zero, of course, but using this approach you should be able to verify that your reporting-based functionality is working as expected.

Cheers,

Josh, AdWords API Team