Adwords account budget

[Gustavo Ulyssea]

Hello,

I could not find a way to make it automatic to check our company current account budget on AdWords to make it easier for me to let the one responsible to add credit to our account. Anyone who knows it can help me ?

Best regards,

Gustavo Ulyssea

[Joyce Lava]

Hi Gustavo,

There is currently no way to get current/remaining account budget using the AdWords API services/reports. However, if you know the original budget, then you can generate the Account_Performance_Report to get the Cost and subtract that from the original budget.

Thanks,

Joyce, AdWords API Team

[Zweitze]

There is a workaround...
Does your company have a MCC? If not, create one, then add all accounts to that MCC. Next, let all "budget orders" go through that MCC. A "budget order" is similar to a purchase order, you give Google the right to spend a certain amount in a certain period.

Having done that, you can use the BudgetOrderService - method get returns all budget orders. You have to call that service with a login associated to the MCC with the budget orders. And then you're still not there, you have to ask Google for whitelisting (see the highlighted section of the docs).

So a lot to do, but if you already have a MCC, and you've centralized the spendings in that MCC, you're almost there.

[AdwordsAPInewbie]

Is there an update to this?

[Sreelakshmi Sasidharan (AdWords API Team)]

Hi, 

There still isn't a straight forward way to get the remaining budget. As Joyce and Zweitze described in the previous posts, you may have to use the Account Performance Report or use BudgetOrderService (if consolidated billing is already setup) and calculate the remaining budget. 

Thanks,
Sreelakshmi, AdWords API Team