I figured out the reason. The issue was that old (manually created) accounts had service agreements with specified limits. Therefore, when creating AccountBudgetProposal, a new service agreement (with a new limit amount) was created, which had to be signed manually. To solve this, we created a new account budget for each account, and replenishments via the API worked without manual approvals.
On Monday, September 29, 2025 at 12:55:36 PM UTC+4 Vladimir Seregin wrote: > Hi! > > We have built an integration via the Google Ads API to create and top up > account budgets (via AccountBudgetProposal). > > Some of our older client accounts (created manually via the Google Ads web > UI by account managers) had individual service agreements. > When we applied the first budget proposal via API, the proposal entered a > “pending approval” status, and one of our internal payments users (in our > company’s Payments Users list) received an email requiring manual approval. > After that manual approval (by our manager), subsequent budget changes > seem to work normally (got approved in minutes). > > I would like you to clarify the following: > 1. Under what conditions does Google require a manual approval (by a > Payments user) for an AccountBudgetProposal (especially the first > proposal)? > 2. Is the manual approval always required the first time for accounts > which had individual service agreements? > 3. Once the first proposal is approved, is there a guarantee that > subsequent proposals will be auto-approved (i.e. not go into “pending > approval”)? Or could Google again require manual approval in certain cases? > 4. Does the Account Budget Controls setting in the payments / billing > profile affect this behavior? > 5. Can Google disable the requirement for manual initial approval for our > manager account? If so, how do we request that? > -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog: https://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/ =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API and Google Ads 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 "Google Ads API and AdWords API Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/adwords-api/20591579-7ab9-437b-aec5-d965cf24231en%40googlegroups.com.
