AdWords API Budget Setting

[sa]

Hi,

I know that I can use BudgetService to create, modify and delete budgets for different levels in AdWords hierarchical structure. Hence, I can change budgets like the daily AdWords campaign budget at will for any account that I have authorization via AdWords API as long as I have a valid developer token. Do the owner of the account get notified about these actions or any extra authorization is needed, because it seems very risky to change these budgets at will due to the fact that I know some AdWords tools company profit some percent from those AdWords account users and they have the power to make those users spend more (by setting a higher budget) and give their company more money to use.

Thanks

[Sreelakshmi Sasidharan (AdWords API Team)]

Hi, 

The BudgetOrderService (BOS) is for whitelisted manager accounts to programmatically create account-level budgets for the client accounts they manage on consolidated billing. Consolidated billing is usually used by agencies, resellers, and large advertisers who work with multiple AdWords accounts and want to streamline their billing by receiving just one monthly invoice. In this kind of a billing, the Manager needs to set up and manage the budgets and client accounts are not notified of these changes. However, they can always navigate to their billing tab in the AdWords UI and verify the details. If they would like to explore other options of billing, this article will be helpful.

 If you have additional questions about how the client accounts can monitor their budgets, you could post that on the advertisers community forum. The experts there might be able to provide helpful tips on that topic. 

Thanks,
Sreelakshmi, AdWords API Team