Can't Add Test Users to My Test Manager Account to Test the API

[Barry Boggs]

Hi,

I'm trying to write a program that uses the Google Ads API.  I have managed to create a test manager account, but I can't add a user.  Every time I try I get an error about not having billing setup (you can't setup billing on a test account) and nothing shows up in the list of sub accounts. 

Since you have to have a test account to get a working developer token, I don't know what to do.

Is anyone else having this problem or know of a solution?  Is it a bug on Google's end?

Thanks.

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor]

Hi Barry,

Thank you for reaching out to the Google Ads API support team.

With regard to your concern for adding user using your test account, as per our documentation (https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/first-call/test-accounts), it mentioned that since test accounts don't have budgets, you may see an error when creating a test sub-account in a manager account. You can ignore this error; the test account will still be created. Kindly check also the limitation (https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/first-call/test-accounts#limitations) that the test account has.

This message is in relation to case "ref:_00D1U1174p._5004Q2mWEqr:ref"

Thanks,
 

Google Ads API Team