ManagedCustomerService vs CustomerService

[te...@segment.com]

If I want to get all customers / AdWords accounts accessible to the Google user currently authenticated, should I use ManagedCustomerService or CustomerService?

[Shwetha Vastrad (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Tejas, 

I would recommend that you use ManagedCustomerService to get all the accounts accessible by the user authenticated in the request. You could use the GetAccountHierarchy Java example to get the account hierarchy under the current account. Example code in other languages is available here. 

Regards,

Shwetha, AdWords API Team.

[Tejas Manohar]

What's the actual method being used to get account hierarchy? I don't see it listed here- https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/reference/v201607/ManagedCustomerService

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Best regards,

Tejas Manohar

[Tejas Manohar]

Can you use get() on ManagedCustomerService w/ a selector that just asks for certain Fields[] to get all accounts?

[Shwetha Vastrad (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Tejas,

Yes, you can use the get method on ManagedCustomerService, which will return a list of Customers identified by the selector. This is the method used in the example I provided earlier to get account hierarchy.

[te...@segment.com]

Ah, I see. Why does https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201607/CustomerService?wsdl and https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201607/ManagedCustomerService?wsdl give a 404, not found when https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201607/CampaignService?wsdl seems to work. I am just opening in my browser.

[Shwetha Vastrad (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Tejas,

Here are the production WSDLs for CustomerService and ManagedCustomerService:

• CustomerService: https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/mcm/v201607/CustomerService?wsdl
• ManagedCustomerService: https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/mcm/v201607/ManagedCustomerService?wsdl

Regards,

Shwetha, AdWords API Team.

[te...@segment.com]

What's the actual difference b/w Managed Customer Service .get() and Customer Service .get()? I read here- https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/reference/v201607/ManagedCustomerService that 

>Client Customer Id is required if CustomerIdMode is set to CLIENT_EXTERNAL_CUSTOMER_ID. Starting version V201409 ClientCustomerId will be required for all requests except for CustomerService.get

Doesn't that mean Customer Service .get() would be the best endpoint to use for our tool to show a list of AdWords accounts that we can connect to?

[Shwetha Vastrad (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Tejas,

The get() method of CustomerService was removed in API version v201607. You need to use getCustomers() instead. See the updated Managing Accounts guide for details. CustomerService getCustomers method returns the details of the authenticated account if the clientCustomerId is not set in the request header. If clientCustomerId is specified, only details of that customer will be returned. 

To get a list of all accounts you can access using the OAuth credentials available, you could probably use the CustomerService.getCustomers() method to retrieve the clientCustomerId of the account you're authenticated as and use this clientCustomerId to get the account hierarchy under this account using ManagedCustomerService.