Use it as a preflight check, not a promise from Google
This checker looks for obvious CSV problems before upload: headers, identifier fields, encoding and basic value shape. Passing here means the file is cleaner; it does not simulate Google Ads account eligibility or server-side policy checks.
CSV can look fine and still be wrong
The tricky part is that a spreadsheet can display perfectly while the exported CSV has a different encoding, a changed phone format or an unexpected header. Checking the exported file catches the thing you are actually about to upload.
What is worth checking twice
- Header names match the format you intend to upload.
- Phone, email and address columns have not been auto-reformatted by the spreadsheet app.
- The file encoding is the one you expect.
A small sample is enough to expose many mistakes
Try a file with just a header and one or two rows first. If the structure is wrong, it is much faster to fix that before exporting the full customer list.