Set up billing for every customer or Consolidated Billing?

[Guadalupe Estrada]

Hello,

We have a MCC account (agency) and an approved developer token, we've already tested basic capabilities of the API. 

The goal we have in mind is to create a solution integrated into our own website to be able to manage their campaigns, where our clients will perform several actions (via API):

• Account creation/linking into our MCC account
  
• Set up their own account billing information
• View reports, etc.

Now, I've read several posts that mention the API does not support entering billing information for an account and can only be done via UI. 

Is that the way it currently works?

I've also read that being whitelisted for the BudgetOrderService would allow us to create a BudgetOrder using our own billing account,

Do we need to set up Consolidated Billing to apply to this process?

We don't have a Google Representative/Account Manager. I need someone who can help us with this.

[Nadine Sundquist (AdWords API Team)]

Hello Guadalupe,

Wow! You're really efficient in your questions. Let's see if I can get all of them answered.

• For account creation and linking, you can check out our Managing Accounts guide.
• Setting up billing information does need to be done outside of the API (in the UI). However, as you noticed budget orders can be managed through the BudgetOrderService, but it does require consolidated billing. I'm sure you've already gone through our Budget Order Service guide.
• As for reports there are quite a few options.

So, for your next steps:

• Make sure that consolidated billing is set up for your account.
• Then, on the forum choose Reply privately to author in the drop-down and send me the account information where the consolidated billing is set up. I can try to work with you to get this whitelisted.

Best,

Nadine, AdWords API Team