How to get account budget

[泉正太]

Dear support team,

Is there a way to get account budget via API or AdWords Scripts?
It is not campaign budget.

If there is a way please tell me the link of the document.



MCC budget screen

Individual account budget screen

Best regard
shorta izumi

[Vishal Vinayak (Adwords API Team)]

Hi,

From AdWords API standpoint, you can use BudgetOrderService to retrieve budgets for an account. A BudgetOrder is an authorization for a particular client AdWords account to spend a certain amount of money over a certain period of time. The BudgetOrderService.get method can be used to fetch the spendingLimit of the client account. Please note that BudgetOrderService is available only to white-listed AdWords manager accounts.  

For questions related to AdWords Scripts, I would recommend posting your queries on the AdWords Scripts Forum. 

Regards,

Vishal, AdWords API Team

[泉正太]

Hello,

Thank you for your reply. Then, I would like to try applying for a whitelist. 

Sorry... where can I check how to apply for a budgetOrderService whitelist?

If there is a way please tell me the link of the document.

Best regards,
shorta izumi

2017年1月19日木曜日 4時13分54秒 UTC+9 Vishal Vinayak (Adwords API Team):

[kisl...@gmail.com]

UP

1) any news about this question?

2)  i see budget in adwords interface, but i have guest (not manager) account. How get budget by  API  via budgetOrderService?

3) it would be logical,  if i can see budget in interface (from browser) , then I should be able to read it by api 

4)  maybe exist some other api methods to get budget or  something similar  money  param, like money limit, etc?

четверг, 19 января 2017 г., 6:35:33 UTC+3 пользователь 泉正太 написал:

[Nadine Sundquist (AdWords API Team)]

Hello,

Could you do me a huge favor in the future? When you notice that a thread is much older, could you start a new thread and just reference the old forum post with a link? That makes it much easier in case the questions are a little different. In your case, you do have a few different questions. In order to save you a bit of time, I won't ask you to start a new thread this time, but I'll just answer it here. 

1) any news about this question?

We took this question offline and worked with the user to determine if they were qualified to use the BudgetOrderSerivce. In order to even be considered, your whole account structure needs to be set up for consolidated billing. 

2)  i see budget in adwords interface, but i have guest (not manager) account. How get budget by  API  via budgetOrderService?

The BudgetOrderService is a whitelisted service, so you would have to have a manager account set up with consolidated billing. There are more details about how all of this works in our Budget Order Service guide. It sounds like in your case that you're not set up for that.

3) it would be logical,  if i can see budget in interface (from browser) , then I should be able to read it by api 

You do have other options for getting information about your budget. For example, you can use the Budget Performance Report to retrieve most of the data that you see in the browser. 

4)  maybe exist some other api methods to get budget or  something similar  money  param, like money limit, etc?

For your situation, I think the best place would be to look at reporting such as the Budget Performance Report. There are many different kinds of reports that can link that to where your budget is being used.

Please give that a try to see if that works for you.

Best,

Nadine, AdWords API Team

[kisl...@gmail.com]

Hello, thanks for answer

We tried to use the "Budget Performance Report", but this is not what we need. This method returns the budget from the "Shared Budget"

Url interface: https://adwords.google.com/aw/sharedbudgets?ocid=254362058&__c=8977077242&authuser=0&__u=6415393025

Screen: http://take.ms/yCCkQ

But we have a task to receive a budget from the section "Billing & payments" -> "Account budgets"

Url: https://adwords.google.com/aw/billing/budgets?ocid=254362058&billingId=433291332&__c=8977077242&authuser=0&__u=6415393025

Screen: http://take.ms/BW4g9

We want to get the "Budget ammount" field (104$ on screenshot)

How can I get this field? 

вторник, 13 февраля 2018 г., 1:55:36 UTC+3 пользователь Nadine Sundquist (AdWords API Team) написал:

[Nadine Sundquist (AdWords API Team)]

Greetings!

Thanks for taking the time to try that out. I'm sorry to hear that it didn't match exactly what you needed. I appreciate the screenshots. That's really helpful. In order to get what you're asking for, you would need the BudgetOrderService. However, there's a catch. It's only supported in the API if you have consolidated billing set up. Otherwise, that information can't be retrieved through the API. I've already put in a feature request to make this supported for all other kinds of billing in the future because I think that would be helpful.There isn't a date as to when something like that would be available.

Best,

Nadine, AdWords API Team

[kisl...@gmail.com]

Hi,

This is very sad. Comrade 泉 正 太 asked about this opportunity more than a year ago.

It's not very clear how to work with this?

Do we need to parse the web interface in order to get and understand the balance that remains?

среда, 4 апреля 2018 г., 17:13:55 UTC+3 пользователь Nadine Sundquist (AdWords API Team) написал:

[kisl...@gmail.com]

Can I fine-tune how to send letters to the e-mail about the amount of the remaining balance (budget)?

среда, 4 апреля 2018 г., 17:13:55 UTC+3 пользователь Nadine Sundquist (AdWords API Team) написал:

[Nadine Sundquist (AdWords API Team)]

Hello,

I totally understand how sad that is. To implement this as a feature in the API would take a lot of work, which is why you have not seen any progress on this. We get a lot of feature requests, and we often have to choose the ones that are requested the most. It's helpful to hear from people like you to know that there are other people who would want this feature. 

I have never met anyone who parses the web interface. I have met people who download the invoices and parse that. Another things that some people do is that they look at the budget on the campaign and tell people how much budget remains on each of the campaigns instead of on the account. That is another possible solution.

Regards,

Nadine, AdWords API Team

[Nadine Sundquist (AdWords API Team)]

Greetings!

It's me again. I was just thinking. If all you want to do is send an email when the budget gets close to being used, then you can also use automated rules. This is outside the API, but it allows you to set up a rule, that will alert you when you reach a certain point.  I figured I would mention this in case it helps.

Best,

Nadine, AdWords API Team