I'm trying to learn to use the Ads API and according to the quickstart for the API I need a test manager account and a test client account to try out my sample code and eventually test my app.
When I read the quickstart documentation at https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/docs/first-call/overview?hl=en_US it gives very vague instructions on how to make the test accounts. This page says: =================================== ... Production accounts serve ads that are rendered to users, and billing is involved. Test accounts won't affect your live ads or charge your account, hence, they're a useful way to experiment with the API. Because test accounts don't serve any actual ads, impressions or cost data associated with them will be empty. Follow the instructions below to create a test manager account, a test client account, and a few campaigns to populate the test client account. Note that "client" here refers to a Google Ads client account, not your client app. 1. Go to the Google Ads manager accounts page <https://ads.google.com/um/Welcome/?sf=mt> and create a test manager account. 2. Use the Google Ads UI to create a test client account under the test manager account you created above. While logged in to Google Ads as your test manager account, any client accounts you create will automatically be test accounts. ... ====================================== I feel that these instructions are so vague - they really don't tell you step by step what to do. This page raises 2 questions for me: 1) In step 1 how do I actually create a test manager account? Do I simply create a normal manager account and name it "test"? So then it's not really a test account just a new normal account w/ "test" in the name, right? 2) In step 2 it talks about using the UI. Doesn't it really mean use the API? From what I've read the API will create a test account if you use your test token and credentials. If I do need to use the UI, what are the exact steps to create a test client account w/ no billing etc.??? People talk about red flags marking their test accounts but I don't know how to get these test accounts. I've also read in the ad help forum that you can be suspended for making multiple client accounts, and it appears other devs have fallen into this trap. I'd love to hear the answers to 1 and 2 so I can at least get to the point of running some sample php code. -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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 adwords-api@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 and Google Ads API Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/adwords-api/9fa24648-da01-471d-ad5b-970da4bb9216n%40googlegroups.com.
