Check remaining balance for an MCC account with enabled credit line

[Артокс Медиа]

Hello, is there a way to get remaining budget or budget percent spent for different clients at MCC account with enabled credit line? We have hundreds of clients and we would like to send alert emails to our account managers about low clients balance. Unfortunatly we could not find a way to do so using AdWords API.

[Danial Klimkin]

Hello,

Unfortunately budgets information is not available in the API so there is no way to obtain this field at the moment.

-Danial, AdWords API Team.

[Артокс Медиа]

Is there any possibilities to use AlertService for MCC account with enabled credit line?  At this time AlertService don't return any alerts, even if we will set the budget expiration date on today. Thanks in advance.

четверг, 14 ноября 2013 г., 12:13:01 UTC+3 пользователь Danial Klimkin написал:

[Danial Klimkin]

Hello,

Unfortunately no, this information is just not available to the API.

-Danial, AdWords API Team.

[Artyom Borodatyuk]

1. When you will add this API function?

2. How I can make alerts for hundreds customers, send sms and other, if you haven't api?

четверг, 14 ноября 2013 г., 11:13:01 UTC+2 пользователь Danial Klimkin написал:

[Danial Klimkin]

Hello Artyom,

1. This functionality is not currently planned.

2. We recommend keeping budget values on your side and calculating the standing based on "cost" reporting field.

-Danial, AdWords API Team.

[Zweitze]

Hello,

You can get all account budgets with the BudgetOrderService. With the result (you get all budgets, including budgets of past and future), find out the active budget. That result will tell you the start and end dates of the budget. To find the spent budget, simply run an account performance report for the period of the start date until today - and ask for the cost field. With the active budget, and spent money you can calculate the numbers you need.

But:
1. BudgetOrderService needs a whitelisting - you need to whitelist the MCC containing the accounts on which you want to use the BudgetOrderService. Contact your Google representative for this.
2. This does not work on accounts with video campaigns. Money spent on these campaigns is not reported by any report.

Hope this helps.

[Eduardo Pineda]

Hello, Zweitze 

I'm doing exactly the same you describe on this post to calculate the spent budget for certain account. Unfortunately the result is not enough accurate, i've been finding constant diferences between the cost and what adwords shows as spent budget.

I think the reason is because the performance report delivers the cost of the campaign along with invalid clicks.

Is there a way to clean this cost so i can get the cost of the valid clicks only?