How to tell if an account is MCC or non-MCC (client)

[Lena Madenci]

I've been reading the docs on ManagedCustomerService and I am having issue understanding how to tell if a returned entity is a manager account or a client account. 

Is there any API call used for this, so that I can determine an Adwords user's account type based on a client_customer_id, for example? 

Thanks

[Yin Niu]

Hi Lena, 

You could check the canManageClients field of ManagedCustomer. 

Thanks,

Yin, AdWords API Team. 

[Lena Madenci]

I have tried using canManageClients, however, when the account I am finding clients with is a Manager account, canManageClients returns true for all accounts, including accounts that I know are non-MCC accounts.

[Yin Niu]

Hello, 

The code below checks the CanManageClients field. It should return true for MCC account and false for client account. 

    SelectorBuilder builder = new SelectorBuilder();

    Selector selector = builder

        .fields(ManagedCustomerField.CustomerId, ManagedCustomerField.Name, ManagedCustomerField.CanManageClients,               ManagedCustomerField.TestAccount)

        .orderAscBy(CampaignField.Name)

        .offset(offset)

        .limit(PAGE_SIZE)

        .build();

    ManagedCustomerPage page = null;

    do {

      page = managedCustomerService.get(selector);

      if (page.getEntries() != null) {

        for (ManagedCustomer managedCustomer : page.getEntries()) {

          

          System.out.println("Managed Customer with with name \"" + managedCustomer.getName() + "\" and id \""

              + managedCustomer.getCustomerId() + "\" was found.");

          System.out.println("Can manage clients: " + managedCustomer.getCanManageClients());

          System.out.println("Is Test account: " + managedCustomer.getTestAccount());

        }

      } else {

        System.out.println("No managed customers were found.");

      }

      offset += PAGE_SIZE;

      selector = builder.increaseOffsetBy(PAGE_SIZE).build();

    } while (offset < page.getTotalNumEntries());

If this doesn't work, please send your client CustomerID and the SOAP request and response. Please click Reply privately to author in the forum when responding.

[James Andrews]

Hello Yin,

I'm working with Lena and we're using php not python.  From looking at what you provide I believe it coded correctly in php.  This is what we have.

        // Function to get the adwords user from credentials

        $user = $this->getAdwordsUser($account, $params);

        // Get the adwords customer

        $customerService = $user->GetService("CustomerService");

        $customer = $customerService->get();

        $user->SetClientCustomerId($customer->customerId);

        $customerService = $user->GetService("CustomerService");

        $customer = $customerService->get();

        $managedCustomerService = $user->GetService('ManagedCustomerService', ADWORDS_VERSION);

        // Create selector.

        $selector = new \Selector();

        // Specify the fields to retrieve.

        $selector->fields = array('CustomerId', 'Name', 'CanManageClients');

        // Make the get request.

        $managedCustomerPage = $managedCustomerService->get($selector);

Does this look right?  Can you see anything we are doing incorrectly?

Thanks,

James

[Yin Niu]

Hi, 

Code looks fine to me.  

Please send your client CustomerID and the SOAP request and response. Please click Reply privately to author in the forum when responding.