Hello, If you write some AdWords API code and then sell it to advertisers for their own use, you do have two options.
If you decide to embed your token information into the application then yes, all your advertisers' AdWords API usage would get billed back to your MCC account. It would be up to you to either price your application accordingly up front or to bill monthly usage fees to recoup the money for these charges. If you decide to bill for monthly usage fees, the various methods in the InfoServce can be used to determine exactly how much quota went into managing different AdWords accounts. The more straightforward approach is to require each purchaser of your application to apply for and then provide their own Developer token, which would result in their AdWords API usage getting charged back to their own personal MCC. You can share the Application token, as it's just used to uniquely identify your application, so users would only need to request a Developer's token. Once you have an approved Developer and Application token you can use them in the SOAP headers of any AdWords API request. The Developer token controls which MCC account gets billed for usage. The email/ password/(clientEmail) information controls which account is being acted upon. They're separate entities. Cheers, -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team On Nov 20, 8:35 am, GeorgR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i got my API key approved today, which is a good thing. > > Questions: > > 1) if i write an application for automating certain tasks using the > API, i use my API key in my application then..but the application can > be commercially sold? > However, i would need to "pay" for the API usage of my customers > (since it is my API key) ? > > 2) With the key, is it now possible to apply this to ANY adwords > account, eg. customer X could use my application and log-in into HIS > adwords account - or can i use the API only using a MCC count where i > have "client" in my account? Which would exclude any usage for > customers for using my application and using the API functions with > their (normal) account? > > Cheers, > > G. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to adwords-api@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
