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Pause Ads for Products That Start Getting Bad Reviews

Stop pouring money into problems — when a product's average rating drops below a threshold, pause its ads until the quality issue is resolved.

difficulty Advancedsetup 40 minresult Ad spend stops flowing to poorly-rated products, protecting budget and brand perception.
  1. 1

    Watch Review Ratings

    Add a Schedule Trigger and a review-app node computing each product's current average rating.

  2. 2

    Detect a Quality Drop

    Add an IF node continuing when a product's rating falls below your threshold with enough reviews.

  3. 3

    Pause the Ads

    Add an HTTP Request to the Ads API pausing ad sets promoting that product.

  4. 4

    Alert the Team

    Add a Slack node reporting the pause so someone investigates the quality issue.

  5. 5

    Activate and Test

    Activate the workflow and drop a test product's rating. Confirm ads pause and the alert fires.

Frequently asked questions

Won't a few bad reviews overreact?

Require a minimum review count so a couple of outliers don't pause a good product.

When do ads resume?

Resume manually once the underlying issue is fixed and ratings recover, so you don't re-fund a problem.

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