Changing Shared Budgets Based on Day of Week

[Brian Jones]

Hey Scripts team,

I'm wanting to change my daily budgets automatically based on day of week so more money can be spent on days that tend to drive more conversions. I know you can do this with Automated Rules, but they don't appear to work when you have a Shared Budget.

Is there any script available that can do this for Shared Budgets?

Here's what I have currently set up in Automated Rules: http://screencast.com/t/FshyAyJGMy

Thanks!

[Anthony Madrigal]

Hi Brian,

Although there is no script solution that fully does what you want, you can use the snippet below to get you started. You will want to schedule the script to Daily.

This script will check the day of week then change the budget accordingly:

function checkBudget() {
  var today = new Date();  
  //Returns a number 0-6. Sunday is 0, Monday is 1, etc.
  var dayOfWeek = today.getDay();
 
  //Selects all shared budgets
  var budgetIterator = AdWordsApp.budgets().withCondition("IsBudgetExplicitlyShared = true").get();
  while(budgetIterator.hasNext()){
   var budget = budgetIterator.next();
   //Checks if it is Wednesday
    if(dayOfWeek == 3){
     budget.setAmount(SOME_AMOUNT);
    }
  }
}

Regards,

Anthony

AdWords Scripts Team

[Anna]

Hi Anthony,

I found this script of yours and was going to use it on my account in order to change shared budget on a specific day. I'm getting an error saying  main function is not defined. Expected to find function main()

Would you be able to advise what needs to be changed?

Also, if I need to revert back to the previous budget the next day - is it just a matter of uploading another script with different amount and different day identified, right?

Thanks!
Anna

[Anthony Madrigal]

Hi Anna,

You can just change the function name from checkBudget to main. If you want to change the budget to a different amount for a different day, you can modify the code as such

function main() {

  var today = new Date();  
  //Returns a number 0-6. Sunday is 0, Monday is 1, etc.
  var dayOfWeek = today.getDay();
 
  //Selects all shared budgets
  var budgetIterator = AdWordsApp.budgets().withCondition("IsBudgetExplicitlyShared = true").get();
  while(budgetIterator.hasNext()){
   var budget = budgetIterator.next();
    //Checks if it is Wednesday
    if(dayOfWeek == 3){
     budget.setAmount(SOME_AMOUNT);
    }

    //Checks if it is Friday
    else if(dayOfWeek == 5){
      budget.setAmount(SOME_OTHER_AMOUNT)
    }
  }
}

If you are still facing issues, please create a new thread so that we can track the issue more easily.

Cheers,

Anthony

AdWords Scripts Team