How Budget Changes Work with Active Dayparting Rules in SellerApp
If you’re using SellerApp to manage your Amazon advertising campaigns, and you’ve activated dayparting rules, it’s important to understand how budget changes are handled. Especially, when you’re switching between SellerApp and Seller Central.
What is dayparting, and how does it work with SellerApp?
Dayparting is the practice of scheduling your campaigns to run only during specific hours of the day. The goal is to focus spend when your ads are most likely to perform well, cutting down on wasted impressions and boosting your return on ad spend.
SellerApp lets you set up dayparting rules that automatically adjust your campaign budgets at scheduled times. These adjustments help ensure your ads appear when they’re most effective.
The Key Question: What Happens If You Change Budgets?
Let’s say you have a dayparting rule active via SellerApp, and then you manually change the budget of the same campaign on either Seller Central or SellerApp.
What takes precedence?
Answer: If you change the campaign budget on Seller Central, but a dayparting rule is active in SellerApp, the budget set in SellerApp will override the one in Seller Central.
Why This Happens
SellerApp’s dayparting system automates budget adjustments as part of its scheduled rules. These rules are enforced in real-time, and any manual changes made directly in Seller Central will be overwritten by the next budget update triggered by SellerApp’s rule engine.
Best Practice
If your campaigns are being managed through SellerApp:
- Always make budget edits directly within the platform. That way, the system stays in sync and you avoid any unexpected overrides.
- Adjusting budgets manually in Seller Central while dayparting rules are active can create confusion. Even if the new budget looks like it’s applied, SellerApp will reset it the next time the schedule runs.
Staying in control of your ad spend
SellerApp’s tools are built to give advertisers more control, not less. But that control works best when you follow the system’s logic. Understanding how dayparting rules manage budgets helps you avoid missteps and keeps your campaigns running efficiently.
If you have questions about your setup or want help fine-tuning your dayparting rules, reach out to your account manager or our support team. We’re happy to help you get the most from your ad strategy.
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