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Configuring default budget settings for all accounts

Set default budget settings for a customer portfolio.

Updated over a week ago

Certain budget settings can be configured at the customer level. Budget settings configured at the customer level impact all advertising accounts and become the default budget settings for the customer's portfolio.


Navigating to customer-level budget settings

  1. Go to Settings & Tools (gear icon) in the left menu.

  2. Select Customer Info.

  3. Locate the Budget Management section in Customer Info.

  4. Click the + icon to configure additional customer-level budget settings.


Configuring budget settings

Fast recovery

  • Budget Manager Fast Recovery: Toggle on to turn on fast recovery. Fast recovery speeds up the pacing process to a predefined number of days, as opposed to the remaining days of the month. If underspend occurs, daily spend increases so that the underspend amount is spread over the defined recovery window as opposed to catching up on underspend over the remaining days of the month.

    Example: For a fast recovery window of 3 days, Fluency takes the amount of underspend and increases the daily target for 3 days.

  • Fast Recovery Response Days: The number of days that the budget will take to make up for underspend.

    Example: If it's the third day of the month and your budget is underspending, a seven-day recovery window will increase your spending for seven days to get back on track with the set pacing strategy. If underspend continues after seven days, the system will recalculate the increase needed to get back on track and apply the new spend for another seven days. If it's the 28th of the month, the increase in spend will only occur until the end of the month.

New budgets created in Fluency or via reverse sync

  • Default Budgets to Read-Only: When a new budget is created, the budget will be on read-only.

  • Default Pacing Strategy (e.g., Even): When a new budget is pulled via reverse sync, the default pacing strategy is None. Enter a different pacing strategy if you want to change the default.

  • Prorate monthly budgets that are created from Reverse Sync or start mid-month: Budgets created mid-month via reverse sync are prorated based on the day it was created. Enter NEVER to turn off proration—if the budget is created mid-month, the system will aim to spend the full month's budget.

  • Default setting to Pause Campaigns when Individual Budgets Exhaust: When toggled on, new budgets will automatically pause campaigns when their budgets are exhausted.

  • Meta ONLY: Default setting to Pause Meta Campaigns when Individual Budgets Exhaust: When toggled on, new Meta budgets will automatically pause campaigns when their budgets are exhausted.

Scaling budgets

  • Scale budgets automatically & proportionally when the Account Spend Limit is updated: When toggled on, spend limit changes for individual budgets will automatically scale up or down accordingly.

  • Scale budgets automatically & proportionally when a Budget Group Spend Limit is updated: When budget group budgets change, budgets within the budget group will automatically scale up or down accordingly.

Ad schedules

  • Ad Schedule Additional Late Hours on Underspend: When Relax Ad Schedules in Underspend Mitigation is on, input the number of hours to allow your campaigns to run AFTER your schedule ends.

  • Ad Schedule Additional Early Hours on Underspend: When Relax Ad Schedules in Underspend Mitigation is on, input the number of hours to allow your campaigns to run BEFORE your schedule begins.

Facebook

  • Use Facebook Invoice Billing: Use Facebook's invoice billing as opposed to credit card billing.

  • Use Facebook Account Spend Limiter: Our system initiates "Account Budget Limit" jobs for each Facebook account. These jobs compute the total number of active and non-lifetime Facebook budgets and then set an account-level spend limit at Facebook. The account budget limit we set at Facebook is the sum of the Facebook budgets at the start of the month. We continue to apply the approved account budget as a cap on spending, assuming that overspend protection is enabled and any flighted/lifetime spend isn’t included.

Google

  • Use Google Account Budget Orders: Enforces account budget orders in Google. They are created on the first of the current month after 12 a.m. and are triggered within 15 minutes of any campaign updates.

  • Accelerate the STRONG START pacing strategy for Performance Max budgets: Sets Performance Max campaigns to an even more accelerated Strong Start pacing strategy.

  • Minimum account underspend from last month in order to suggest budget rollovers/adjustments: Changes the minimum amount of underspend for an account to appear in the Budget Rollover & Adjustments tool. Suggestions are made in the light gray. If that number is equal to or greater than $10, that account will appear in the list of accounts shown. Enter a different number if you want to change this default.

Proposal

  • Proposal Default Markup: The default percentage by which the Global % Fee is increased when generating Proposals. Example: For a 20% increase, enter 0.2.

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