I should file this story in the issue tracker, but I'll mention it here first.
After using up my free quota for the day, I enabled billing on my Custom Search API project. Google Checkout emailed me about a credit card verification error ... but the API console immediately put my project into billed mode anyway. (I hadn't checked my email just yet, so I wasn't yet aware of the card verification error.) The API console showed that billable usage was good-to-go. So I submitted a few further requests to the API ... Of course those requests still produced the "Daily Limit Exceeded" error (since my credit card had not yet been successfully processed) ... Yet those requests accrued as billable usage (indicated by increases in the console's quota usage indicator)! Thus I was effectively charged for receiving "Daily Limit Exceeded" error messages. Suggestion: The API console system should switch a project into billed mode AFTER Checkout order processing fully succeeds ... so that subsequent *billed* API requests won't produce the "Daily Limit Exceeded" error. -- omr -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google AJAX APIs" 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/google-ajax-search-api?hl=en.
