Spend Alerts in Housing Market Ads: Know When a Budget Is Used

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Housing Market Ads can record a spend alert when a campaign has used a set share of its daily budget. The alerts appear in a Spend alerts card on your dashboard, newest first, for the last 30 days, with the campaign name, the percentage reached, the spend against the daily budget and the time. You choose the percentages for each campaign on the Conversion Tracking page, under Campaign delivery settings: up to five values between 1 and 100, such as 50, 80 and 100. This tutorial shows the card, then opens the setting, picks a campaign, enters the thresholds and saves them. The spend shown is an estimate, not what billing charged, and alerts are recorded on the dashboard, not sent by email. The card is marked Beta.

In this tutorial you will learn

Where the Spend alerts card is on the dashboard
What each recorded alert tells you
Where to choose when alerts are recorded
How many thresholds you can set and which values are allowed
Why an alert is recorded once per campaign, per threshold and per day

Follow along: the steps

Open your Housing Market Ads dashboard.
Scroll down to the Spend alerts card.
Each alert names the campaign and the share of the daily budget it reached.
It also shows the spend against the daily budget, and when it was recorded.
Alerts are recorded here on the dashboard, for the last 30 days.
Click Choose when alerts are recorded.
The setting is under Campaign delivery settings.
Pick the campaign first. Each campaign has its own thresholds.
Find Spend alert thresholds, as a percentage of the daily budget.
Type up to five percentages from 1 to 100, separated by commas.
Leave the field empty if you want no alerts.
Click Save.
From now on an alert is recorded once per campaign, per threshold, per day.
Go back to the Dashboard to see new alerts as they arrive.
The amounts are estimates, not what billing charged.