Budget refusals and warnings
What each of AdCopilot's budget messages means — the comfortable-daily-budget warning, the monthly-cap refusal, Maximize Clicks with no cap, no budget saved, and the campaign it built — and what to do.
These come from the budget checks AdCopilot's server runs on any change that can start or raise spend. How they work is in The budget checks. Amounts are in your account's currency.
Above your comfortable daily budget
This campaign is set to spend $60/day — about $1,824 a month — above the comfortable daily budget on file, $40. That is a heads-up, not a block: the saved comfort stays $40 unless you ask me to change it.
A warning, not a refusal. The change went through. Since v2.15.0, going above your comfortable daily budget never blocks.
- If you meant it, nothing to do. Your words are recorded with the change.
- If you want the higher figure to be your new normal, say so and AdCopilot saves it, or change Comfortable daily budget in the Business profile.
- If it was a slip, ask AdCopilot to set the budget back.
A similar warning appears when a per-click cap is higher than your whole comfortable daily budget — usually a typo. Tell AdCopilot the most you want to pay for one click.
Above your monthly cap
That would put this account's running campaigns at $250/day in total — $100 for this campaign plus $150 for the others — about $7,600 a month, above the monthly cap of $5,000 on file. Raise the cap first (tell me the number), pick a smaller daily budget, or pause another campaign.
Or, for one campaign on its own:
That would put this campaign at $200/day — about $6,080 a month — above the monthly cap of $5,000 on file. Raise the cap first (tell me the number), or pick a smaller daily budget.
Refused. Nothing changed. The monthly cap is a limit you set, and it counts every campaign running in the account. It applies when you switch a campaign on, build one switched on, raise a budget, or give a campaign that has ended a new start or end date. Tell AdCopilot a higher monthly cap (or change Monthly cap in the Business profile) and ask again, choose a smaller daily budget, or pause a campaign you no longer need.
Monthly cap not readable
I can't read the monthly cap on file as a plain number above zero, so I won't switch on or raise spending I have no way to check against it. Tell me the monthly cap you want and I'll save it, then ask again.
Refused. The saved monthly cap is not a number above zero that AdCopilot can read. Say the monthly cap you want, or correct Monthly cap in the Business profile, and ask again. If you don't want a cap, leave the field blank; a cap of zero is not "no cap".
Campaign budget not readable
I couldn't read this campaign's daily budget from Google Ads just now, so I can't check it against the monthly cap on file, and I won't start spending I haven't checked. Nothing was changed. Try again in a minute.
Refused. A monthly cap is saved, and Google Ads did not answer with the campaign's daily budget, so AdCopilot could not check the change against the cap. Ask again in a minute. If it keeps happening, check the dashboard's Connections for a Google login marked Needs reauth, and see Reconnecting.
Maximize Clicks with no per-click cap
Maximize Clicks with no per-click cap would let Google pay any amount for a single click. Tell me the most you want to pay for one click and I'll switch it with that cap …
Refused. Give a maximum cost per click and ask again.
No comfortable daily budget saved
No comfortable daily budget is saved for this workspace yet, so I can't switch on a campaign that spends $30/day — about $912 a month. Tell me the daily number you're comfortable with, I'll save it, then ask again.
Refused, once. Say your number; AdCopilot saves it and you ask again. The same applies when building a campaign, and when nothing about your business is saved yet: tell it what you sell, where your customers are and your daily number. AdCopilot never suggests a budget for you.
If Google Ads did not answer with the campaign's daily budget at that moment, the same refusal names no amount:
No comfortable daily budget is saved for this workspace yet, and I couldn't read this campaign's daily budget from Google Ads just now, so I won't switch it on. Tell me the daily number you're comfortable with, I'll save it, then ask again.
Nothing was changed. The fix is the same: say your number and ask again.
The campaign it built
This is the campaign we built together — switching it on is yours to do in Google Ads: Campaigns → … → click the grey Paused dot → Enabled.
Refused, by design. Switch it on yourself in Google Ads when you are ready.
A number it cannot read
I can't read the daily budget on this request as a plain number …
Refused. Say the amount again as a plain number.
Not a budget message
- "Setting status to REMOVED …" — AdCopilot cannot delete; pause instead. See It can never delete.
- "… included operations used today" — the daily cap. See Plan caps and limits.
An audit returned partial results
Why a full_audit lists checks as not evaluated, what it means when it reached its time limit or timed out, and how to get a complete run.
Plan caps and limits
What happens at the daily operations cap or the account limit — nothing is deleted, calls are refused until the reset, a switched-off account, or an upgrade — and the grace day on Starter and Plus.