Hi, Regardless of the date of the *conversion*, all conversions for a given click (GCLID) will appear in reports under the date of the *click*.
The date and time on the conversion upload serves a few purposes: 1. Used to validate that the conversion is after the click (as you mentioned). 2. Also used in other validation rules <https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/guides/importing-conversions#validation_rules>, such as confirming that the conversion is within the click-through conversion lookback window. 3. Allows AdWords to ignore duplicates (since only one conversion value is allowed per GCLID/conversiontype/date+time). Hope that helps. Cheers, Josh, AdWords API Team On Tuesday, April 26, 2016 at 12:08:08 PM UTC-4, James wrote: > > Thank you very much for your response. Forgive my ignorance, but I'm not > sure that I follow. If the conversion is passed in with a time of > conversion set to America/Chicago for the 16th, what exactly is happening > that makes it appear on the 15th? Does the GCLID have an associated time > stamp with it that indicates the time of the click and the date I provided > in conversion upload is just to make sure that the conversion happened > after the click? > > Again, sorry for the confusion. I really appreciate your help in > understanding. > > On Monday, April 25, 2016 at 12:41:07 PM UTC-5, Josh Radcliff (AdWords API > Team) wrote: >> >> Hi James, >> >> The dates in reports are based on the account's time zone. In this case, >> the account's time zone is Central Time, so given your click date/time of >> *2016-04-16 >> 02:00 UTC*, that click's data will actually show up on reports and in >> the user interface on *2016-04-15*, since conversions appear under the >> date of the *click*, not the date of the conversion. >> >> Thanks, >> Josh, AdWords API Team >> >> On Monday, April 25, 2016 at 12:36:18 PM UTC-4, James wrote: >>> >>> I thought it might have something to do with that, but I tried uploading >>> a conversion on Friday, and today it's still not showing up in our Adwords >>> account, despite it appearing that I'm getting a valid response back from >>> the Adwords API. Is there any way you can look into the request ID I've >>> gotten back and let me know if there's something wrong? >>> >>> On Monday, April 25, 2016 at 11:11:11 AM UTC-5, Anthony Madrigal wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi James, >>>> >>>> It takes up to 3 hours for offline conversions to appear in your >>>> AdWords account. This may be the reason you are not seeing them yet. Here >>>> is a list >>>> <https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/guides/importing-conversions#tips> >>>> of >>>> more reasons why your conversions may not appear. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Anthony >>>> AdWords API Team >>>> >>> -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and Google+: https://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/ https://plus.google.com/+GoogleAdsDevelopers/posts =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/adwords-api/52d871af-23ba-4ab1-974a-28a7f2d4db49%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
