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What Auto-Pacing Does in Meta Budgeting

Learn how auto-pacing works, what it needs to run, and how it helps your team stay on top of Meta budgets in BuyerBridge.

Auto-pacing is built to help your team spend less time making manual budget updates throughout the month.

Inside Meta Budgeting, auto-pacing can automatically adjust eligible campaign budgets based on pacing toward monthly goals. That helps your team stay closer to plan while keeping budget management faster and more consistent.

This guide explains what auto-pacing does, how it works, and what to keep in mind when using it.

Quick Links

How to Find Auto-Pacing

To access auto-pacing in BuyerBridge:

  1. Log in to BuyerBridge.
  2. Scroll down to Organization section in the left-hand menu.
  3. Expand the Reports dropdown.
  4. Scroll to Meta and expand options
  5. Select Meta Budgeting.

From there, you can review eligible campaigns and turn auto-pacing on where it makes sense for your workflow.

What Auto-Pacing Does

Auto-pacing helps keep eligible campaigns closer to their monthly budget goals.

When auto-pacing is turned on, BuyerBridge can automatically adjust campaign budgets based on how they are pacing throughout the month. This helps reduce repeated manual updates and gives your team a simpler way to manage spend.

Auto-pacing is built to support day-to-day budget management while still keeping your team in control.

What You Need Before Turning Auto Pacing On

Before you can use auto-pacing, you’ll need to set a monthly goal for each campaign you want paced.

🚨 An account-level monthly budget goal is helpful for overall visibility, but it does not turn on auto-pacing across multiple campaigns by itself.

If you want BuyerBridge to auto-pace a campaign, that campaign needs its own goal.

This is an important setup step, and it can be easy to miss if you are only looking at the account-level total.

How Auto-Pacing Works

Auto-pacing looks at how a campaign is spending compared to its monthly budget goal.

Based on that pacing, BuyerBridge can adjust the campaign budget to help keep spend closer to goal as the month moves forward.

Auto-pacing updates once per day. This helps keep campaigns moving toward goal while avoiding overly frequent changes.

Making changes on a daily schedule also helps reduce the chance of triggering Meta guardrails too often.

Instead of waiting until the end of the month to react, auto-pacing helps your team make smaller adjustments along the way.

How Budget Distribution Works

If budgets need to be adjusted across campaigns, BuyerBridge can help distribute those changes for you.

Adjustments can be distributed:

  • Proportionally
  • Evenly

This gives your team a faster way to apply budget changes across campaigns without recalculating each one by hand.

What to Keep in Mind

Auto-pacing is designed to help your team stay closer to monthly goals with less manual work.

It works best when your team still checks pacing regularly and keeps an eye on campaigns that may need a closer look.

For example, you may want to review campaigns more closely when:

  • Campaign goals change
  • Campaign strategy shifts
  • A campaign is no longer meant to spend the same way it did earlier in the month
  • A campaign may need manual attention based on performance

Auto-pacing helps your team move faster, but your team still decides what makes the most sense for each campaign.

Best Practices

To get the most out of auto-pacing, we recommend:

  1. Set a monthly goal for each campaign before turning auto-pacing on.
  2. Use account-level goals for visibility, but campaign-level goals for pacing.
  3. Review pacing regularly throughout the month.
  4. Use proportional or even distribution when campaign budgets need to be adjusted.
  5. Check the Change Log to review recent updates.

These habits can help your team stay proactive while cutting down on repetitive work.

Need help?

If you have questions about auto-pacing in Meta Budgeting, reach out to the BuyerBridge team for support.

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