How to get google ads account credit or balance?

[Akav Zhen]

Dear All:

Thank you all in advance.

Here is what we know:

If we set a google account with payment setting "Automatic Payments",the account will have a account threshold,as ads runs,there is a positive value shows as credit,and will trigger a payment if the ads accrued account threshold or 30 days after the last payment.

if we make a payment manually with a amount more than accrued,the credit has a negative value showing the balance left.

Here is the question:

How can I get the credit value by google-ads/adwords api ?

Thank you.

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hi Akav,

Thank you for reaching out to us. You can obtain credits using the field totalAdjustments under BudgetOrder, which will come in the form of credits or debits to your budget order. For more information about adjustments, please see here. Please let me know if you have further questions.

Thank you,
Bryan, Google Ads API Team

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[Akav Zhen]

Thank you for your help.

I tried the BudgetOrder.totalAdjustments way,but it didn't work out.

On a Monthly invoicing account with a budget,the BudgetOrder did gives the spendingLimit and totalAdjustments,and the amount is correct.

But, on a Automatic Payments account,which set the account budget to Unlimited Spending,the BudgetOrder gives the spendlimit with value -1,which means unlimited.and the totalAdjustments's value is weird,I didn't find the value anywhere on the google ads page.

And the value I really care abount ,is the credit amount with a negative value,on a automatic payments account which made a mannuly payment.

[Akav Zhen]

By the way.

On a manual payment account,the BudgetOrder alse gives the correct spendingLimit with a value of Account Budget.But the totalAdjustment is also something unknown.

For a  manual payment account,the Your remaining credit value also not found in the BudgetOrder .

[hari nareshit]

Hi Akav Zhen

If you're on the manual payment setting, you'll make a payment for your Google Ads costs before your ads run, and that payment will be used to pay for your advertising costs once your ads start running.

You'll do this each time you want to add money to your Google Ads account, and whenever the money in your account starts getting low, we'll send you an email reminding you to make another payment. 

Here's what to keep in mind as you make payments on this setting:

• Pay whatever amount you like: The amount you pay is up to you, as long as it's above the minimum transaction amount for your location and currency. You'll see what that minimum is when you make payment.
• Store your favorite payment methods in your account: You can make payments more quickly by storing multiple payment methods in your account.

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hi Akav,

Thank you for the clarification. Through the API the remaining credit field is not directly accessible via API. However, you can compute the remaining balance by subtracting the total Cost of the Account Performance Report from your known budget. This should give you the remaining balance. Please let me know if you have further questions or concerns.

[Akav Zhen]

Thank you.

As I mentioned before,the budget for some Automatic Payments account is set to Unlimited,which just make the subtracting impossible.

[Akav Zhen]

So,is that impossible to get the remaining credit for a Automatic Payments account which set the budget to unlimited?

Thank you.

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hi Akav,

In the case that your Automatic Budget account is set to unlimited making the subtraction impossible, then unfortunately it is not possible to obtain the remaining credit, as remaining credit is not directly accessible by API. Please let me know if you have further questions.

[Akav Zhen]

Well,I might consider changing some config then.

Thank you for your help.