Manage guards

The Guards page (“Automatic ad pause/resume rules”) lists every guard of your store. From there you can open a guard, act on one guard from its row, or select several and act on all of them.

The guard list

Column	Shows
Variant	The product and variant. Click it to open the guard.
Location	The location whose stock the guard watches.
Threshold	The pause threshold.
State	Monitoring, Pause Pending, Paused or Resume Pending. Hover for a short explanation.
Targets	How many ad targets the guard controls.
Auto-resume	On or Off.
Actions	Edit, pause, resume and delete buttons for this guard.

The list shows 25 guards a page, with Page X of Y • N total below it. The states are explained in Guard states.

A store without guards shows No guards yet, with Create guard and Bulk import.

Finding guards

Search: “Product, variant or email” finds guards by product or variant name or by a recipient’s address.
Location: All locations, or one of the locations your guards watch.
State: All states, Idle (the Monitoring state), Pause Pending, Paused or Resume Pending.
Google campaign type: appears when guards have Google Ads targets, to show only guards with targets of one campaign type.

Reset filters clears all of them.

Guard detail

Click a guard’s variant to open it. The page is titled Product — Variant, with the location below.

Status: the guard’s state.
Active: Yes or No.
Last stock level: the available stock recorded with the guard’s last pause or resume.
Last paused, Last resumed, Created: when those happened.
Rules: the Threshold and Auto-resume setting.
Notification emails: the guard’s recipients.
Ad targets (N): each target with its platform and level.

Editing a guard

On the guard’s page, click Edit (or the edit button in its row on the Guards page). You can change:

Pause threshold and Auto-resume above threshold
Email recipients, comma-separated
Ad targets: + Add targets opens the target picker; Remove takes a target off

Click Save to keep the changes (“Guard updated.”) or Cancel to drop them. The new settings apply from the next stock change.

To change the variant or location, create a guard for the new one and delete the old guard.

Manual pause and resume

You can pause or turn on a guard’s ads yourself at any time:

In a guard’s row: the pause button (“Queue a manual pause action”) and the resume button (“Queue a manual resume action”).
For several guards: tick them and click Manual Pause or Manual Resume.

The page confirms how many actions were queued, for example “3 manual pause action(s) queued.” Each one runs like an automatic pause or resume: the guard moves to Pause Pending or Resume Pending, then to Paused or Monitoring, and the recipients get an email.

Manual pause applies to active guards in the Monitoring state, and manual resume to active guards in the Paused state. Guards in any other state are left out, so the number queued can be lower than the number you selected.

Typical uses:

Pause now: the variant was already low when you created the guard. A guard acts on stock changes, so pause it by hand once.
Resume after a pause with auto-resume off: the guard stays Paused until you resume it.

Activate and deactivate

A deactivated guard ignores stock changes and can’t be paused or resumed by hand. It keeps its settings and targets.

On the guard’s page: Deactivate or Activate (“Guard deactivated.”, “Guard activated.”).
For several guards: tick them and click Deactivate or Activate.

Deactivating leaves the guard’s ads as they are. If its ads are paused and you want them running, use Manual Resume, wait until the guard shows Monitoring again, then deactivate.

Delete

On the guard’s page: Delete.
In a guard’s row: the delete button.
For several guards: tick them and click Delete.

Guardified asks first (Delete guard? or Delete N guard(s)?). Deleting removes the guard, its targets and its log entries for good.

Deleting leaves the guard’s ads as they are: paused ads stay paused. To turn them back on, use Manual Resume and wait until the guard shows Monitoring again, then delete it, or turn the ads on in the ad platform.