Cost/Ad spend: automatic update

Auto update costs: feature overview

Auto update costs feature allows you to receive your cost data directly from the traffic channel via the API. It means there is no need to use any macros or update costs manually each time. Enabling this feature can help you with the following:

• Costs are updated not in real-time but several times a day with a frequency from 5 up to 60 minutes on the Campaign, Adset, and Ad levels. Update of frequency and level depends on your subscription plan.

• Auto update costs feature presupposes smart automation, so if you have multiple campaigns in your Google or Facebook account,  you don’t have to create the same amount of campaigns in RedTrack as our smart automation can attach your traffic channel campaigns costs to 1 RedTrack campaign.

Setting up Auto update costs

In order to set up the auto update cost feature act as follows:

1. In the added traffic channel template choose the needed levels of Cost update depth and Cost update frequency → Save changes to the template:

Cost update depth

Cost update frequency

If your traffic channel is eligible for all 3 levels: Campaign, Adset, and Ad, but there is a lock next to it, it means that this level of cost update depth is not included in your subscription plan:

To get this level, please contact support@redtrack.io.

The default value for Cost update frequency is 30 minutes. In order to change it to 15 or 5 minutes please contact support@redtrack.io.

2. Campaigns → Create new campaign → choose the traffic channel where you set the cost update depth and frequency → CPC Cost model → fill in the rest of the needed data → Save:

No more actions from you are required, since the Auto update costs toggle is switched on automatically for the API-bound traffic channels.