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# Pacing

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Define a monthly target budget to track pacing at the **account, campaign or group level** ([budget groups](/tools/budget/budget-groups.md)). This doesn't allow Adalysis to make any changes to your budget unless you enable [Auto manage](/tools/budget/auto-manage.md).

You can view your pacing data at several levels:

**Account**

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**Budget group**

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**Multi-account**&#x20;

You can see the pacing information for all accounts on your **Audit & budget view**. Click on the colored bars/circles for details.

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#### **Color coding**&#x20;

* <mark style="background-color:blue;">Blue</mark> = underpacing
* <mark style="background-color:orange;">Orange</mark> = overpacing
* <mark style="background-color:green;">Green</mark> = within X% of target (5% by default, customizable as shown below)

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## Setting a target budget

### Account level

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Define a monthly target track your pacing and enable pacing alerts.

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There are also two additional options you may want to consider when defining your target budget:

1. View a recommended breakdown of how the target should be split into daily budgets for the relevant campaigns. [Find out more](/tools/budget/daily-budget-recommendations.md)&#x20;
2. You can also enable the *Auto manage* tool, which will review your spend daily and adjust the daily campaign budgets. This will guarantee you won't exceed the target while ensuring you come as close as possible to it. [Find out more](/tools/budget/auto-manage.md)

### Budget group level

Setting target budgets for [budget groups](/tools/budget/budget-groups.md) works in the same way as the above.  Once the budget group is created, the target can be added/edited as shown below.

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## Alerts

### **Pacing alerts**&#x20;

Pacing alerts let you know when your budgets are underpacing and/or overpacing. This option becomes active on the **Manage** > **Budget** screen once you've set a target budget.

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> **Example**: If your monthly budget is $1000, you would expect to spend $500 by day 15. If your overpacing alert is set to 10% from day 15, you'll receive a notification if you've spent over $550 by day 15 of the month.

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Budget alerts need to be created for each account separately.
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### **Spend alerts**&#x20;

Spend alerts let you know when you've spent a set percentage of your monthly target. Spend is monitored on an hourly basis.&#x20;

You can also choose to automatically pause campaigns when you've reached your target budget, and reenable them at the start of the next month.

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**Example**: Your monthly budget is $1000 and your spend alert is set for 80%. When your account has spent $800, you'll receive a notification.

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Paused campaigns will be labelled "Autopaused on \[date]". Once reenabled, the label will be automatically removed.
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