Overview


Cap settings are used to set up a limit to specific KPIs on a daily, monthly or lifetime basis. 

If you have a budget from the advertiser for your campaigns, then you can automatically pause the campaign and use the traffic for different converting offers by adding CAPs. You can set CAP for

  • Day
  • Month
  • Lifetime


This can be set for the whole campaign or for a specific publisher or group of the publisher for a campaign. There are following types of CAP that can be set on a Campaign

  • Gross Conversion
  • Approved Conversion
  • Pending Conversion
  • Payout
  • Gross Revenue
  • Gross Clicks
  • Clicks(Excluding rejected clicks)
  • Pending Payout
  • Pending Revenue
  • Impressions
  • Gross Sale Amount




How to add CAP

  • To set a CAP, go to Particular Campaign > Settings > CAP


CAP will take approximately 10 minutes to get activated in tracking and a similar time to get paused, so there might be some spillover clicks on the tracking URL till 10 minutes after CAP is reached.


  • Go to CAP and click on "+Add CAP"



  • Type: This defines the KPIs for which you want to set CAP
    • Gross Conversion
    • Approved Conversion
    • Payout
    • Gross Revenue
    • Gross Clicks
    • Pending Payout
    • Pending Revenue
  • Goal: If you have multiple goals or events in a campaign, then you can also add a CAP on goals as well. If you leave "--" that means it is on the default goal of the campaign.
  • Publisher: If you select any publisher then it will be publisher-specific CAP, otherwise it be campaign level if you select "ALL".
  • Exclude publishers: In case you want to exclude some publishers among all publishers you can use this section for that.
  • Publisher CAP Visibility: You can control CAP visibility on the publisher interface.
    • If you select public then CAP will be visible to them on the offer level.
    • If you select private then CAP will not be visible.
  • Publisher CAP Type: If you select 5 different publishers, then you have the option to set CAP for them, then you can select from:
    • Each of them will get X number of CAP on daily/monthly/lifetime.
    • Group means, combining those 5 publishers will have X number of CAP on daily/monthly/Lifetime.
  • Landing Pages:  If you have added Multiple Landing Pages in the Campaign, then you can set CAP on Landing pages.
  • GEOs: If you have Multiple GEOs on the campaign then you can set CAP on GEO Level As well.


When a CAP for a campaign is reached, then the campaign tracking link will be paused by the system. Similarly, when a CAP for a publisher, Geo or landing page is reached, then the traffic for the specific publisher, Geo or landing page will be automatically paused by the system, and you can see the message on the 'campaign info' page.


  • Campaign Status after CAP: You can set the status of the campaign here once the CAP has been reached
  • Daily: Setting CAP for the Daily budget.
  • Monthly: Setting CAP for Monthly Budget.
  • Hourly: If you choose "Gross click" and want to apply a cap on clicks per minute you simply write a value in hours and it will divide that into minutes. Please ensure to enable the "Distribute evenly on minute basis" button.
  • Lifetime: Setting CAP for Lifetime of Campaign.
  • CAP Over Delivery: If Over Delivery is set to be YES then traffic will be not paused but spillover conversions will still be canceled and Only applies to the daily cap.
  • TimeZone: If your advertiser is in a different timezone and to sync CAP 24 hours clock with their timezone you set the different timezone on a CAP level.
  • Redirect: Once CAP is reached and the campaign is paused and you have selected "CAP Over Delivery" as NO, then there are multiple options where the traffic can be redirected.
    • You can redirect the traffic to a blank page.
    • You can redirect the traffic to different Campaign
    • You can redirect the traffic to Smart Link.
    • You can redirect the traffic Fallback URL.

            


One the CAP is set you can see the usage of CAP and it's limit under campaignmanagement wherein they can track how much they have used and how much is remaining.


CAP Flow Chart


If the cap is over and the publisher's tracking link is paused and you are changing the cap manually, for that particular day you have to enable the tracking link of that publisher manually on your own. The system will keep a check from the next day onwards.



CAP Report

  • You can check the progress of the CAP with the CAP report, to access the report go to Report > CAP Report.



  • You can get the reporting for how much % of CAP is reached.