How to Adjust Schedules and Pause Budgets in bulk using export/import

Over specific seasonal periods, clients will often want to pause spend. You can schedule this ahead of time using Adpulse Budget Schedules and leveraging the AutoPause feature.

If you have a handful to do, it’s probably quickest to do the changes per budget and this article will step you through the process.

If you have a lot to do, then you're in the right place as the below will guide you through making the updates in bulk, which will require using the export/import functionality and making changes to multiple budgets via a CSV file.

If you want Adpulse to pause the campaigns during the planned break, then you need to enable AutoPause under Budget Automation > Advanced Settings

You can watch this video or follow the step-by-step guide below

The example

We have used the example below, but the process will work for changing to any range of dates.

Original Budget Schedule:

Recurring monthly budget of $5,000/mth that commences on the 1st of each month

What we want to update it to:

December 1st - 19th: $4,000
December 20th - January 11th - paused
January 12th - 31st: $2,000
February 1st: return to recurring monthly at $5,000

Step 1 - End the Current Schedule early

Filter the budgets page to only display the budgets you want to update
Export 'All Budget Data' for the 'Current Budgets' using the export button
Open the download file in your chosen spreadsheet tool
Enter your new end date in Column I 'End Date' for all row - each row is a budget.
Enter a revised Budget Target (if required) in Column L 'Budget Target'
Save the file as a CSV
Import the newly saved CSV using the import button using the below settings:
1. Budget upload type: Budgets
2. Upload file
3. Select your date format (excel will change this from the default YYYY_MM_DD
You will get a modal advising a success on each row imported and the budget schedule for all the budget will now only have the one Current schedule (it will probably have some past entries)

Step 2 - Create the two new future schedules

We will be creating both future schedules in the one sheet and import:

January 12th - 31st: $2,000
February 1st: return to recurring monthly at $5,000

Export 'All Budget Data' for the 'Current Budgets' using the export button
Open the download file in your chosen spreadsheet tool

We'll create the January 12th - 31st: $2,000 schedule first, by updating the below columns;

Column	Column name	Update to
G	Entry ID	clear field
H	Start Date	Enter start date (example: 2026-01-12)
I	End Date	Enter end date (example: 2026-01-31)
L	Budget Target	Enter budget target (example: 2000)
M	Rollover	delete
N	Spent	delete
O	% Spent	delete
P	Pacing	delete
Q	Ideal Daily Spend	delete
R	Yesterdays Spend	delete
S	Forecast Spend	delete

Next we'll create the February 1st: return to recurring monthly at $5,000 schedule, by updating the below columns;

Column	Column name	Update to
AJ	Schedule Budget Target	Enter budget target (example: 5000)
AK	Budget Schedule	Enter 'monthly'
AL	Schedule From	Enter start date (example: 2026-02-01)
AM	Schedule To	leave blank (to make it recurring)
AN	Schedule Repeat Start	Enter the day of the month (example: 1)
AO	Schedule Repeat Length	Enter '1' (recurr every 1 month)

Save the file as a CSV
Import the newly saved CSV using the import button using the below settings:
1. Budget upload type: Budgets
2. Upload file
3. Select your date format (excel will change this from the default YYYY_MM_DD
You will get a modal advising a success on each row imported and the new future budget schedules for all the budgets will nnow display