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bing.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:ns0="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:ns1="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays" xmlns:ns2="https://bingads.microsoft.com/Reporting/v13" xmlns:tns="https://bingads.microsoft.com/Reporting/v13" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<SOAP-ENV:Header>
<tns:AuthenticationToken>OMISSIS</tns:AuthenticationToken>
<tns:CustomerAccountId>XYZ</tns:CustomerAccountId>
<tns:CustomerId>XYZ</tns:CustomerId>
<tns:DeveloperToken>XYZ</tns:DeveloperToken>
</SOAP-ENV:Header>
<ns0:Body>
<ns2:SubmitGenerateReportRequest>
<ns2:ReportRequest xsi:type="ns2:AgeGenderAudienceReportRequest">
<ns2:ExcludeReportFooter>true</ns2:ExcludeReportFooter>
<ns2:ExcludeReportHeader>true</ns2:ExcludeReportHeader>
<ns2:Format>Csv</ns2:Format>
<ns2:ReportName>My Ads Performance Report</ns2:ReportName>
<ns2:ReturnOnlyCompleteData>false</ns2:ReturnOnlyCompleteData>
<ns2:Aggregation>Daily</ns2:Aggregation>
<ns2:Columns>
<ns2:AgeGenderAudienceReportColumn>AdGroupName</ns2:AgeGenderAudienceReportColumn>
<ns2:AgeGenderAudienceReportColumn>TimePeriod</ns2:AgeGenderAudienceReportColumn>
<ns2:AgeGenderAudienceReportColumn>AdGroupId</ns2:AgeGenderAudienceReportColumn>
<ns2:AgeGenderAudienceReportColumn>AdDistribution</ns2:AgeGenderAudienceReportColumn>
<ns2:AgeGenderAudienceReportColumn>AgeGroup</ns2:AgeGenderAudienceReportColumn>
<ns2:AgeGenderAudienceReportColumn>Gender</ns2:AgeGenderAudienceReportColumn>
<ns2:AgeGenderAudienceReportColumn>Impressions</ns2:AgeGenderAudienceReportColumn>
<ns2:AgeGenderAudienceReportColumn>Clicks</ns2:AgeGenderAudienceReportColumn>
<ns2:AgeGenderAudienceReportColumn>Conversions</ns2:AgeGenderAudienceReportColumn>
<ns2:AgeGenderAudienceReportColumn>Spend</ns2:AgeGenderAudienceReportColumn>
<ns2:AgeGenderAudienceReportColumn>ExtendedCost</ns2:AgeGenderAudienceReportColumn>
<ns2:AgeGenderAudienceReportColumn>Assists</ns2:AgeGenderAudienceReportColumn>
</ns2:Columns>
<ns2:Scope>
<ns2:AccountIds>
<ns1:long>154004153</ns1:long>
</ns2:AccountIds>
</ns2:Scope>
<ns2:Time>
<ns2:CustomDateRangeEnd>
<ns2:Day>26</ns2:Day>
<ns2:Month>11</ns2:Month>
<ns2:Year>2019</ns2:Year>
</ns2:CustomDateRangeEnd>
<ns2:CustomDateRangeStart>
<ns2:Day>26</ns2:Day>
<ns2:Month>11</ns2:Month>
<ns2:Year>2019</ns2:Year>
</ns2:CustomDateRangeStart>
<ns2:ReportTimeZone>PacificTimeUSCanadaTijuana</ns2:ReportTimeZone>
</ns2:Time>
</ns2:ReportRequest>
</ns2:SubmitGenerateReportRequest>
</ns0:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
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RoyBellingan commented Jul 22, 2022

Hi @volomike, sorry I do not recall on the fly of ever having done the offline conversion for bing...
I will check in the source code of our project but, I fear I never did that.

In general and if possible should be detailed more or less here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/advertising/campaign-management-service/addconversiongoals?view=bingads-13 ?

If you check the example https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/advertising/guides/code-example-offline-conversions?view=bingads-13 the conversionGoals is the actual working part inside...

And btw yes I do 100% agree with you, they did a miserable job of hiding something quite simple (the JSON rest api for google ads) behind a wall of nonsensical (and buggy) API

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