Daily caps for your publishers
On offers that support it, you can cap how many base conversions, such as installs, one publisher may deliver each day. Open the publisher, choose Assign Offers, expand the offer, type a number in Publisher daily allowance and choose Save daily cap.
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- The offer is assigned to that publisher and saved with Save assignments. Until then the row says to save the assignment first.
- The offer supports a daily cap. The Daily cap panel only appears on offers whose daily count we can track.
Publishers, then the publisher, then Assign Offers
Open Publishers, choose the publisher’s row, then Assign Offers.
Expand the offer
Choose the arrow beside the offer (Expand offer settings). Its Daily cap panel shows what the cap counts and where it stands today:
Field What it means Base event The one event the cap counts, usually the install. Later events from the same player don’t count. Reset timezone The count starts again at midnight in this timezone Next reset When today’s count ends Offer remaining What’s left today of the offer’s own daily cap, shared by everyone who runs it Publisher remaining What’s left today for this publisher. It never exceeds Offer remaining. Availability Available or Unavailable to this publisher right now Publisher daily allowance, then Save daily cap
Type a whole number and choose Save daily cap.
0stops new starts for this publisher. To remove the limit, choose Use offer cap: the publisher then shares the offer’s remaining count with your other publishers.Check it worked
Publisher remaining shows the new number. Right after a save the panel can show a short pending state while we count today’s conversions so far; the offer stays unavailable to that publisher until it finishes.
Example: Northfold Media gives Pebble Rewards an allowance of 200 Harbor Blocks installs a day. At 9:00 PM, with 200 counted, Harbor Blocks reads Unavailable for Pebble Rewards until midnight in the reset timezone, while the offer still runs for Northfold Media’s other publishers.
On the Offer API, each capped offer carries cap (what’s left today), capResetsAt, capTimezone and capEventName. Their dashboard shows when the offer reopens. Publishers can’t change a cap themselves.
- Caps are saved apart from payouts. Changing one never changes the other.
- If the panel says Daily caps are disabled for this network, caps are switched off on our side right now. Contact support.
- When an offer’s own daily cap fills, it leaves the list for every publisher until its reset: Daily caps: why an offer leaves the feed mid-day.