For those of you with Adwords Credit Terms.

[narsticle]

Hi all. I have agency credit terms with google to simplify our billing. To get potential advertisers feet wet with adwords we often start them at a small budget like $1000/month. Google says that we cant put these clients on credit terms under our account because the minimum is 5K/month. Is this true? How do you guys get around this problem? I would hate to have some clients being billed on our credit and then some on our credit card...its just too complicated....any help would be much appreciated....thanks in advance!

[skibum]

We've found in many cases it is much easier to just plug in a credit card than try to go through the invoice billing, and yes they do seem to want $200 per day minimum for invoicing regardless or how much your total Google spend is.

If you have a big spend and you are just passing through money from the client to Google put it on Amex or something with rewards and you'll be able to get all kinds of cool perks.

[narsticle]

SkiBum:

Thanks for the reply. Its not so much that we want the credit terms on every account because of the credit itself. Its more because its much easier to have a consolidated bill at the end of the month. In addition with the credit card google tends to bill at random intervals making the accounting on 30+ accounts a nightmare.

[skibum]

Agreed. Definitely takes some work to account for all those $500.00 charges and it would be very nice if they could hit every 5k or so after a while. Who knows, they've added lots of features suggested here and elsewhere over the last year or so, maybe a change in the CC billing increments will come around too.

[jpchrysler]

How exactly does one become eligible for invoicing? My guess is that it's a history of relatively high monthly payment and good credit.

Can anyone clarify? Is it three months of large payments? Six months?

Is the threshold really only $200 / day?

[Feverpitched]

I'm pretty sure to optain approval for credit standing with AdWords, one needs 3 consecutive months minimum spending level of $5,000 AND go throught the approval process, i.e. paper work, etc. - credit approval.

[biking4jesus]

We were emailed by Adwords and given an application for credit terms. We had been spending $7-9k a month on our account for several months and were approved. We now have split our credit terms to other accounts. (we had to spend at least $1k a month for 2 months on the newly credited account)

[running scared]

maybe a change in the CC billing increments will come around too.

We have had some success with asking them to increase increments on specific accounts.

Billing for agencies dealing with lots of small spend accounts is certainly in need of a major review IMHO.

[chrisk999]

it would be very nice if they could hit every 5k or so after a while

skibum, just contact adwords support and they can increase your account billing threshold to a higher limit. It requires them to assess credit worthiness etc, but is definitely possible. Otherwise it does become an accounting nightmare with loads of mini-debits.