Guide
Connect Meta and send an ad paused
Connect your Meta ad account, fill in the send form field by field, and see exactly what Chrishi creates on Meta: a campaign, an ad set and an ad, all paused until you switch them on.
One time only
Connect Meta
Chrishi needs a connected Meta ad account before it can save a draft or send one. You do this once per workspace.
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Open Integrations
In the sidebar, open Settings and choose Integrations. Under Ad Networks, find Meta (Facebook & Instagram).
The Integrations screen before and after you connect Meta. A drawing, not a screenshot. -
Press Connect
Meta opens its own permission window. Approve access there. If you say no, you come straight back to Chrishi and nothing is saved.
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Check the card
When you return, the card says Connected. If it ever says Token expired, press Reconnect and approve access again.
Chrishi keeps the access token encrypted. Revoke on the same card deletes it.
The promise
What paused means
When you send, Chrishi creates a campaign, an ad set and an ad in your ad account. All three are created paused: nothing can spend until you switch them on in Ads Manager.
Chrishi
- Your finished ad
- Your ad text and link
- Your daily budget
Meta Ads Manager
- Campaign · PAUSED
- Ad set · PAUSED
- Ad · PAUSED
You
Activatein Ads Manager, when ready
Chrishi never changes a campaign from paused to active. That switch only exists in Ads Manager, and only you press it.
Before the send
Save a draft
Image ads. Tick the ads you want in your Image Ads library and choose Save as campaign draft. The button stays greyed out until a Meta ad account is connected, and nothing is sent: the draft stays in Chrishi until you send it from its own page.
Video ads. On the finished video, press Send to Meta (the button shows its price) to open the send sheet. If Meta is not connected yet, the button reads Connect Meta to send instead.
Carousels and slideshows are not sent. Download them from Image Ads instead; nothing is charged. Only a single image ad or a finished video ad can be sent.
The send form
Fill in the form
The draft page has a Send to Meta card. Your saved ad copy fills the text fields; type over any of them to change what is sent.
| Field | Rule |
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| Daily budget (USD) | At least $5 a day. Meta charges it only after you activate the campaign there. |
| Objective | Sales, Traffic or Engagement. Video Ads calls it the goal. |
| Destination link | A full https:// link. Clicks go through Chrishi’s tracking link first, then land here. |
| Primary text | Up to 125 characters. |
| Headline | Up to 27 characters. |
| Description | Up to 27 characters. Optional. |
| Button | Image ads: chosen from the words printed on your ad’s button, Shop Now, Learn More, Sign Up, Download, Get Quote, Subscribe or Contact Us. Video ads: you pick it. |
| Ad account | The Meta ad account you connected. With more than one, Video Ads asks which. |
- Text over a limit is refused before sending, never cut. Chrishi asks you to shorten it, and nothing is charged.
- If your text uses a phrase from your never-say list, or leaves out your disclaimer, Chrishi shows a Check before sending note first. You can still send it as it is.
On Meta
What Chrishi creates
Press Send to Meta (paused) — 10 credits and Chrishi creates five things in your ad account. The three that can spend, the campaign, the ad set and the ad, are all created paused.
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Your picture goes in
Your image or video is uploaded to your ad account.
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A campaign
Created paused, with the objective you chose.
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An ad set
Created paused, with your daily budget.
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A creative
Your text and your tracking link, in one ad creative.
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The ad
Created paused: one for each picture in the draft.
Afterwards
After you send
The campaign, the ad set and the ad are waiting in your ad account. Open Ads Manager, check them, and switch them on when you are ready.
- Sent image ads wait under Sent to Meta in your Image Ads library.
- Every sent ad links through route.chrishi.co, so clicks on it are counted per tracking link in your workspace.
- Spend and results are in Ads Manager, where you control them. Pausing, resuming and budget changes are yours there too.
The numbers
What it costs
- One send
- 10 credits, image or video. One send covers every ad in the draft.
- If the send fails
- The 10 credits come back. A send refused before it starts is never charged.
- Interrupted send
- Send again with the same settings to finish it. If it was already paid for, you are not charged twice. Different settings need a cloned draft.
- Sending twice
- A draft that has been sent cannot be sent again. It is already waiting, paused, in Ads Manager.
- Carousels and slideshows
- Not sent, and nothing is charged. Download them from Image Ads.
Good to know
If something goes wrong
- Save as campaign draft is greyed out
- No active Meta ad account is connected. Connect one on Integrations, then try again.
- “Reconnect your Meta account before sending.”
- The connection has expired. Press Reconnect on the Meta card on Integrations, then send again.
- “Daily budget must be at least $5/day.”
- Meta needs at least $5 a day. Raise the budget and send again.
- “Destination must be a full https:// link.”
- Add the whole address, starting with https://.
- Text over a limit
- Primary text is limited to 125 characters, the headline and description to 27. Shorten the text and send again.
- Not enough credits
- A send needs at least 10 credits in your balance. Chrishi stops before it sends.
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