Difficulty Creating OAUTH2 API Access Because of Existing Email Address

[James Bowery]

I've been retained to write some statistical analysis of a client's AdWords reports.  I'm using "R" which has a package that accepts awql and handles all the data formatting conversion issues, via the AdWords API.  So I need OAUTH2 credentials and my customer needs to grant me those credentials.  I can't use my existing AdWords account for this.  I can't even use my existing gmail email address for this.  I can't even add "+clien...@gmail.com" to create a new email address for this (it complains that the  "gmail.com" domain is not allowed).  Looking around I see people saying that in order to create this "manager" account I have to have a NON gmail address and enter that address to create the new gmail account to use with the MCC AdWords account.  However, it can't be a non-gmail account that has already been associated with an existing gmail account.  So do I go find another email service, create a new email address there and use that?  This seems insane.  

Things can't be this insane.

What am I missing?

[Shwetha Vastrad (AdWords API Team)]

Hi James, 

Could you provide more details on how you are implementing OAuth2 flow in your application? Could you try using an email address (either gmail or non-gmail domain) which hasn't already been associated with an AdWords account to create your manager account? If you already have a manager account, you can follow the instructions provided here to grant access to this account and then use this email address to generate your OAuth2 credentials by following the instructions provided here. Could you also provide a screenshot where it says that the gmail.com domain is not allowed? Please use Reply privately to author if you're including any private information in your response.

Thanks,

Shwetha, AdWords API Team.

[James Bowery]

I've cancelled my AdWords account in hopes that I can create an MCC with my existing email address if I have no AdWords account.

[Shwetha Vastrad (AdWords API Team)]

Hi James, 

Were you able to create an AdWords Manager account using your email address? Manager accounts cannot be created using the same email address as an existing AdWords account. You must use an email address that hasn't already been associated with an AdWords account to create your manager account. If you're unable to create a Manager account with your existing email address, please create a new Google account at accounts.google.com and use this to create a Manager account.

Regards,

Shwetha, AdWords API Team.