Campaign creation with Lifetime budget fails

[Marlon Gómez]

Hi, I am trying to create a campaign with total budget through the API. I already have the daily budget campaign creation working, but when I try to create a total budget campaign I get the following error:

{

  "errorCode": { "campaignBudgetError": "INVALID_PERIOD" },

  "message": "The period of the budget is not allowed.",

  "trigger": { "int64Value": "14172244997" },

  "location": {

    "fieldPathElements": [

      { "fieldName": "operations", "index": 0 },

      { "fieldName": "create" },

      { "fieldName": "campaign_budget" }

    ]

  }

}

Below, I show information of the data I send.

Budget creation (works)

{

        explicitlyShared: false,

        name: 'test generate google Budget - 1734617427950a',

        deliveryMethod: 'STANDARD',

        totalAmountMicros: 25000000,

        period: 'CUSTOM_PERIOD'

      }

Creation of the campaign with the previous budget (fails)

{

          name: 'test generate google - Buzzly',

          status: 'ENABLED',

          campaignBudget: 'customers/9437372372/campaignBudgets/14178825351',

          manualCpc: { enhancedCpcEnabled: false },

          startDate: '2024-12-19',

          endDate: '2024-12-26',

          advertisingChannelType: 'SEARCH',

          networkSettings: {

            targetContentNetwork: true,

            targetGoogleSearch: true,

            targetSearchNetwork: false,

            targetPartnerSearchNetwork: false

          }

        }

Google request ID of the failed request:

TSUIqA2LwyOpasTamWX0Tg

[Marlon Gómez]

Any help?

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi Marlon, 

Thanks for reaching out! A custom budget is also known as a campaign total budget. Campaign total budgets are currently only available for Demand Gen and video campaigns. I see you have a campaign type of SEARCH, so you wouldn't be able to use a campaign total budget in this case. You'll need to use a daily budget instead, which it sounds like you already had working.
 

This message is in relation to case "ref:!00D1U01174p.!5004Q02vGplj:ref" (ADR-00279286)

Thanks,
 

Dora Sun Google Ads API Team

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