Profit Guard: The Bot That Stops Amazon PPC Losses Automatically
The Problem Every Amazon Seller Knows
You wake up in the morning, check your Seller Central dashboard, and see it: a campaign that ran overnight with an ACOS of 180%. Hundreds of dollars gone while you were sleeping.
This is one of the most common — and most painful — experiences in Amazon PPC. And it happens to sellers at every level, from beginners to experienced operators running dozens of campaigns.
The root cause is always the same: no one was watching.
What Is Profit Guard?
Profit Guard is an automated bot included in AdsPilot from the Growth plan onwards. It monitors every single campaign in your account, every hour, around the clock.
Its job is simple: the moment a campaign’s ACOS exceeds your break-even threshold, Profit Guard pauses it automatically.
No email to check. No dashboard to monitor. No manual intervention needed.
How It Works
Profit Guard doesn’t use a generic ACOS target. It uses your actual break-even ACOS — calculated per ASIN based on your real product economics:
- Cost of goods
- FBA fees
- Referral fees
- VAT and other costs
This means Profit Guard knows that a 35% ACOS might be perfectly profitable for Product A (40% margin) but deeply unprofitable for Product B (20% margin). It treats every product individually.
The hourly check looks like this:
- Pull current ACOS for every active campaign
- Compare against break-even ACOS per ASIN
- If ACOS exceeds break-even → pause campaign immediately
- Send alert to your dashboard and email
- Resume campaign when you approve — or set auto-resume rules
Why Hourly Matters
Most sellers check their campaigns once a day — if that. A campaign running at 200% ACOS for 8 hours can burn through hundreds of dollars before anyone notices.
Profit Guard checks every 60 minutes. In the worst case, a losing campaign runs for one hour before it gets paused. That’s the maximum damage.
Compare that to the industry standard of manual daily checks: up to 24 hours of losses before action.
Profit Guard vs. Amazon’s Built-In Budget Caps
Amazon lets you set daily budget caps — but that’s not the same as profitability protection. A budget cap stops spending when you hit a dollar limit, regardless of whether those dollars are making or losing money.
Profit Guard stops spending when you’re losing money, regardless of how much budget you have left.
The difference: budget caps protect your wallet. Profit Guard protects your profit.
Which Plan Includes Profit Guard?
Profit Guard is included from the Growth plan (79€/month) onwards. It’s also active in Pro, Agency and Agency Plus.
In Starter, you get the Anomaly Detector — which alerts you when something goes wrong — but the automatic pause action requires Growth or above.
See all plans and which bots are included →
The Real Cost of Not Having It
Let’s run the numbers. A single overnight campaign running at 150% ACOS on a $50 daily budget costs you $75 in wasted ad spend — minus any revenue generated at a loss.
If this happens twice a month, that’s $150 gone. At 79€/month for Growth, Profit Guard pays for itself from a single prevented incident.
For agencies managing multiple client accounts, the math is even more compelling. One runaway campaign per client per month adds up fast.
Getting Started
Profit Guard activates automatically when you connect your Amazon account and enter your product margins. No configuration needed beyond your cost of goods and fees.
AdsPilot calculates your break-even ACOS per ASIN automatically — and Profit Guard uses that number from day one.