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Daily caps for your publishers

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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.

See also: Run your own affiliate network

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Before you start

  • 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.

Steps

  1. Publishers, then the publisher, then Assign Offers

    Open Publishers, choose the publisher’s row, then Assign Offers.

  2. 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:

    FieldWhat it means
    Base eventThe one event the cap counts, usually the install. Later events from the same player don’t count.
    Reset timezoneThe count starts again at midnight in this timezone
    Next resetWhen today’s count ends
    Offer remainingWhat’s left today of the offer’s own daily cap, shared by everyone who runs it
    Publisher remainingWhat’s left today for this publisher. It never exceeds Offer remaining.
    AvailabilityAvailable or Unavailable to this publisher right now
  3. Publisher daily allowance, then Save daily cap

    Type a whole number and choose Save daily cap. 0 stops 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.

  4. 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.

What your publisher sees

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.

Things to know

  • 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.

Support

Still stuck? Write to us.

One address for every question: hello@affiliateos.ai. Put the details from this list in your first message so we can find the click or conversion without asking you for them again.

Put these in your message

  1. 01The email you sign in with
  2. 02Your role: publisher, advertiser or network
  3. 03The offer ID
  4. 04The click ID or action_id
  5. 05The time it happened, with your time zone
  6. 06What you expected to happen

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