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To use test\naccounts, you need a new account hierarchy, with a test manager account as the\nroot.\n\nWhy use test accounts?\n\nTest accounts don't affect your live ads or charge your account, hence they're a\nuseful way to experiment with the API. Test accounts provide extra benefits\nduring active development. Particularly, test accounts:\n\n- Can be set up in a hierarchy and organized just like production accounts.\n- Can be viewed and manipulated in the Google Ads UI, just like production accounts.\n- Don't require an approved developer token, so you can start experimenting with the API immediately, even before your application is reviewed or approved.\n- Can't serve ads or interact with your production accounts in any way. This gives you a safe environment to test code or configuration changes without impacting your serving accounts.\n- Have the same restrictions, including [rate\n limits](/google-ads/api/docs/best-practices/rate-limits), as production accounts.\n\nSince test accounts don't have budgets, you might see an error when creating a\ntest sub-account in a manager account. You can safely ignore this error.\n\nCreate test accounts and campaigns\n\n\u003cbr /\u003e\n\n\u003cbr /\u003e\n\nThe following instructions create a test manager account, a test client account,\nand a few campaigns to populate the test client account. Note that \"client\" here\nrefers to a Google Ads client account, not your client app.\n\n1. Click the blue button to create a test manager account. If prompted, sign\n in with a [Google Account](//www.google.com/account/about/) that isn't\n linked to your production\n [Google Ads manager account](//ads.google.com/home/tools/manager-accounts/).\n There is also a link to create a new Google Account if you need to do so.\n\n [Create a test manager account](//ads.google.com/nav/selectaccount?sf=mt)\n2. While in your test manager account, create a test client account:\n Click **Accounts \\\u003e\n add_circle \\\u003e\n Create new account** and fill out the form. Any client accounts you\n create from your test manager account are automatically test accounts.\n\n3. Create a few test *campaigns* under the test client account from the Google Ads\n page.\n\n4. Take note of the **client customer ID** for the new test client account, and\n save it so you can make API calls later.\n\n| **Important:** Use the developer token of your *production* manager account when making requests against the *test* manager account. Even if it's not approved yet, the token still works on test accounts, including the ones just created.\n\nView test accounts\n\nTo view test accounts in the UI, you can\n[unhide the accounts](//support.google.com/google-ads/answer/7519830) by\nchoosing to view cancelled accounts.\n\nTest accounts appear with a red label:\n\nIf you don't see the red **Test account** label on your Google Ads account page,\nthen the account is a production account.\n\nLimitations\n\nTest accounts are a great option for testing changes before deploying them to\nproduction, or developing your application while your developer token has\n[test account access](/google-ads/api/docs/access-levels#access_levels_2). However, there are\nsome limitations to keep in mind.\n\n- Because test accounts can't serve ads or interact with your production accounts in any way, serving metrics -- like impressions, conversions, or cost data -- are empty.\n- Some features cannot be tested with test accounts. This includes bid simulations, conversion uploads, and billing. Other features, including recommendations, have limited capabilities within test accounts because test accounts don't generate serving data.\n- Test manager account hierarchies can contain [up to 50](/google-ads/api/docs/best-practices/system-limits#account) test accounts.\n- Test accounts generating a high volume of continuous requests may be throttled without notice.\n\nTake a look at the\n[Testing Best Practices](/google-ads/api/docs/best-practices/testing#production-accounts)\npage for guidance on working around these limitations."]]
