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[Buying Orders & Buying Items] How to configure them on Facebook?

[Buying Orders & Buying Items] How to configure them on Facebook?

Available with Version

2.158 and up

Available with Version

2.158 and up

Role

Order Manager - Fulfilment; System Administrator

External Systems

Facebook

Challenge

You plan to use the ADvendio platform features to purchase media via Facebook. This article will provide an overview of the fields and configurations needed to set up Buying Items with Facebook Integration.


Solution

1. Buying Configuration


To begin the buying configuration process for successfully pushing Buying Orders/Items to Facebook/Instagram, follow these steps:

Ā Access the App Launcher and search for "Buying Configurations."

  1. Once in the "Buying Configuration" section, click on "New" to start

  • General Information

  • Select ā€œFacebookā€ as a connection and select the ā€œActiveā€ checkbox

The following image shows the recommended set of fields to add for the Facebook integration:

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2. Buying Order

The following table shows the list of fields defining the Buying Order for the Facebook Integration.

The icon in the Required column indicates the fields that canā€™t be empty for the successful submission of the Buying Order.

Ā 

Required

ADvendio Field

Description

Comments

Required

ADvendio Field

Description

Comments

Buying Order Name

Name of the Buying Order

Ā 

Advertiser

Facebook Ad Account

Ā 

Auto

Connection

Contains the necessary credentials to connect to Facebook.

Server name, e.g. ASL-005

Ā 

Start Date/ End Date

Sets the start and end date for your campaign

Ā 

Budget Amount

Budget can be set

  • On Buying Order

  • For each Buying Item individually

If Budget Amount of Budget Amount Daily is not set on Buying Order then it needs to be set for each Buying Item

Ā 

Set Budget Order Level

Check this box to set the Budget at an Order Level

Ā 

Ā 

Budget Amount (Daily)

Ā 

Select one of the following options: ā€œBudget Amountā€ or ā€œBudget Amount Dailyā€

Order Goal

Use this option to define a goal you would like to reach

Order Goal stands for Facebook Campaign objective

This option is mandatory to be set when creating Buying order

For programmatic media Buying this might affect your available options, depending on the platform you are using

Ā 

Order Bid Strategy

Ā 

If you set the Budget on the Buying Order, you also need to set the Bid Strategy

If you donā€™t set the Budget on Buying Order, you need to set Budget on the Buying Item and also set the Bid Strategy on the Buying Item

Otherwise, those fields can remain empty

Auto

Insertion Order ID

Ā 

It will be assigned automatically after the Buying Order is successfully submitted

Ā 

Status

Status of the order

Ā 

3. Buying Item

After creating a Buying Order, you can configure individual Buying Items, which will represent your Facebook AdSets.
These help to control your programmatic media spend, by setting up details like the bidding strategy, goals, and automatic optimizations.
You can create as many items as you like for your Buying Order.

The following table shows the list of fields defining the Buying Item for the Facebook Integration.

The icon in the Required column indicates the fields that canā€™t be empty for the successful submission of the Buying Order.

Required

Buying Item Field

Description

Additional information

Required

Buying Item Field

Description

Additional information

Buying Item Name

Name of the Buying Item

Ā 

Ā 

Status

Ā 

Ā 

Start Date / End Date

Sets the start and end date for your item

Ā 

Ā 

Start Time/ End Time

Sets the start and end time for your item

Ā 

Budget Amount

Sets the total amount to use as budget for your item

It depends on the Buying Order Settings

Bid Strategy

Ā 

  • If Bid Strategy equals to Cost Cap or Bid Cap, you need to set a Bid Amount for each Buying Item

  • If Bid Strategy equals to Lowest Cost, the bid amount remains empty

Ā 

Budget Amount (Daily)

Ā 

Ā 

It depends on the selected Bid Strategy

Bid Amount

Currently we only support the setting of fixed CPM bid, use this field to set your bid amount

Cost Cap or Bid Cap, you need to set a Bid Amount for each Buying Item

Ā 

Optimization Strategy

Ā 

  • Each Buying Item has an Optimization Strategy to set (Each valid Option you can use depends on the Order Goal)

  • If Optimization Strategy and Bid Strategy on the Buying Item are empty, system will use default values

Selected Targeting

Sample string that can be used to set a location:

{"Geography":{"type":"List","logic":"&&","valL":[{"type":"Id","valS":"a092K000035rL3cQAE"}]}}

A Buying Item requires either to set a Location or a Custom Audience

Auto

Line Item ID

Ā 

It will be assigned automatically after the Buying Item is successfully submitted


Buying Campaigns

Ā 

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