Quick start

Three steps take you from a fresh install to ads that pause on their own when stock runs low: connect an ad platform, create a guard, and check the logs.

On this page

• Before you start
• 1. Connect an ad platform
• 2. Create your first guard
• 3. Check that it works
• See also

Before you start

You need Guardified installed with an active plan or trial (Install Guardified), and access to at least one ad account on Meta Ads, Google Ads or TikTok Ads with permission to change its campaigns.

1. Connect an ad platform

1. On Home, click Connect on the card of the platform you advertise on (Meta Ads, TikTok Ads or Google Ads). This opens that platform’s tab in Settings.
2. Click Connect via OAuth and sign in to the platform with the account that manages your ads. Approve the access Guardified asks for.
3. Back in Guardified, open the platform’s tab in Settings and check the account in the list. If your login reaches more than one ad account, choose the one you advertise from and click Use selected account (on TikTok: Use selected advertiser).

The platform’s card on Home now says Connected. Repeat for every platform you want Guardified to control. The Ad platforms chapter explains each one.

2. Create your first guard

1. Open Guards and click Create Guard.
2. Under Product & inventory, click Choose variants and select the variants to protect.
3. Choose the locationLocationA Shopify location (a warehouse, store or other place that holds stock); each guard watches the stock of exactly one location. Read more → whose stock counts, or tick All locations to get one guard per location.
4. Set the Pause threshold: ads pause when the available stockAvailable stockThe quantity Shopify shows as available for a variant at one location, which is the number a guard compares with its pause threshold. Read more → is at this number or below. Leave Auto-resume above threshold on to have them turned back on when stock recovers.
5. Under Notifications, enter the Email recipients to notify on every pause and resume.
6. Under Ad targets, click Add Meta target, Add Google target or Add TikTok target and pick the campaigns, ad sets, ad groups or ads to control.
7. Click Create Guards.

Guardified creates one guardGuardA rule for one product variant at one location that pauses its ad targets when the available stock there falls to the pause threshold, and can turn them back on when stock returns. Read more → for each variant and location you selected, all with the same targets. Create a guard covers every field.

Tip

A guard acts when the stock changes. If a variant is already at or below the threshold when you create its guard, select it in Guards and use Manual Pause to pause its ads right away.

3. Check that it works

• Guards lists your new guard as Monitoring: it is waiting for the next stock change.
• Logs › Webhooks shows each stock update Shopify sent to Guardified. A sale or a stock adjustment of a guarded variant appears here.
• When a guard pauses or turns on its ads, Logs › Platform Actions shows one row per ad target with its result, and Logs › Emails shows the email that went out.

See also

• Guards: overview
• Thresholds and auto-resume
• Logs
• How a pause happens

Last updated: 14 November 2026