Use your promotional codes

Google and our partners sometimes distribute promotional codes for Google Ads. These special offers can be used to redeem credit that gets applied to your Google Ads account. This article explains how to redeem your offer and track its status.

Before you begin

• You will need to enter a payment method.
• If you’d like to use monthly invoicing, be sure to set up that setting before entering your code. Otherwise, your offer will be invalidated and the amount lost when you switch to invoicing.

Where to enter your promotional code

1. In your Google Ads account, click the Billing icon .
2. Click Promotions.
3. Click the blue plus button .
4. Enter your promotional code.
5. Click Save.

Visit the Promotions page

Note: Manager account users can’t enter a promotional code from the manager level through the Promotions page. Manager accounts must visit the billing page of the account they’d like to apply a promotion to and follow steps above.

Check your progress

To see how close you are to earning your credit, visit the Promotions page in your account. It's updated every few hours. You'll be able to quickly check your progress and the status of any credit, and see your completed or expired promotions. Here's how to get there:

1. In your Google Ads account, click the Billing icon .
2. Click Promotions.
3. On the "Promotions" page, you'll find all promotional codes associated with your current, active billing setup, and the related amounts and statuses, including the following:
   • Active: Reward associated with coupon has been granted.
   • Redeemed: currently earning: Coupon was successfully redeemed, but the spend requirement (such as “Spend $25, get $50”) hasn't been met yet.
   • Processing: Spend requirements (such as “Spend $25, get $50”) have been met and our system is processing the granted reward amount.
   • Expired: Coupon expired after redemption and before spend requirement was met.
   • Invalidated: Coupon was invalid/invalidated.

Note: In case of a Billing transfer (for example, a change in account ownership), any active promotional credits will not be transferred or refunded. Your promotional credits will expire and will not be available for future use once the transfer is completed. You can continue to use them in the meantime.

You can view promotions associated with any past billing setup by selecting the past billing setup from the Billing transfers page and then navigating to the promotions page.

Related links

• Fix a promotional code issue
• About promotional codes (coupons)