Hello Maxim, Apologies, I assumed you were referring to campaign-level budgets here, which is what the public AdWords API supports. I overlooked the subject line of your message.
I'm not familiar with the details of how account-level budgets are set and the possible errors that might be returned when setting them. I'll refer your question to someone more familiar with that and let you know. Cheers, -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team On Jul 6, 11:31 pm, Maxim <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't have any special knowledge about that, but just based on the > > text of the error, it sounds like you're trying to set a budget to X, > > when more than X has already been spent. This would render the budget > > meaningless, so AdWords won't let you make that change. > > I fully understand the message of the error, but I think that the > correct behavior would be to just replace the budget. > > Consider this scenario. > > Say I planned to spend $100,000 over a period of the year. That's my > budget 1 which I set on January 1. > By July 1, same year, $60,000 and I want to set the budget to $10,000 > over period of the year. $10K is less then $40k remaing and less then > $60k already spend. Why did you say the budget is meaningless? > What it means is that between January 1 and June 30 I wanted to spend > $100,000/year, but the new budget should be $10,000/year beginning > July 1. > > An analogy I could use is a car insurance policy where you paid a > $3000 premium a year to get $500,000 coverage and regardless of > whether you made any claims with this insurance policy, if you later > lower your coverage to $100,000 your remaining monthly premium should > go down. Basically, you cancel the old policy and buy a new policy. > Same here, no? > > Thanks, > Maxim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
