Google merchant center test account to test shopping campaigns

[chai...@coditation.com]

Hi Team,

I need to create a new shopping campaign by using the Google AdWords API. But before that, I wanted to check the end to end flow for shopping campaign with Google Ads and Google Merchant Center UI just to test the functionality.

I've completed the following steps:

- Created Google Ads Manager and Client account 

- Created Google merchant center account and linked the above account with it.

- Using the content APIs, I uploaded some products to the merchant center

But while creating a shopping campaign from my client account, I'm not able to proceed beyond step 1 i.e providing campaign settings.

Currently, I've not provided any campaign URL as I don't have any website to point to. I am also not sure about how to add the template URL and suffix. Would be great if someone can guide me on this.

Could you please let me know if there is any way to use the existing Google merchant center account as a test account where I don't need to provide the campaign URL? 

[googleadsapi...@google.com]

Hi,

On the AdWords API Perspective, before you can create a Shopping campaign, you need to first link your Google Ads account to your Google Merchant Center account. Once done linking both accounts, you should be able to create your shopping campaign by following this guide which includes sample code here (also available in other languages). Also, you could do that using your Google Ads test account as long as you have Google Merchant Center account.

With regards to the "campaign URL" that you mentioned, could you clarify on which part do you need this? As far as I know you could just create any dummy URL if your purpose is for testing only.

In case you encountered any error while creating shopping campaigns, please provide your complete SOAP request and response logs so I could take a look on the issue then please reply via Reply privately to author.

Thanks and regards,

Luis

AdWords API Team

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