> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.foundable.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Run ads without an ad account

> Add ad money and approve each campaign’s total to have Ted run ads for your business on Facebook.

With Foundable Ads, Ted runs ads for your business on Facebook, paid from your ad money. You don’t need your own billing account at Meta, called an [ad account](https://docs.foundable.com/help/glossary.md#ad-account). Nothing spends until the owner approves a campaign.

Ted can do this for you once Foundable Ads is in Run: ask him for a campaign, like one for your opening week.

Ted drafts campaigns on any plan. Adding ad money and approving need Pro or Max: on other plans, **Approve** opens the plans. Only the owner adds ad money and approves campaigns, and the owner or an admin can pause one. Each campaign sends people to your [published website](https://docs.foundable.com/build/publish.md).

## Add ad money

Campaigns run on Foundable’s own Meta ad account and Facebook Page. Ad money pays for them; credits pay for Ted’s work. Adding money starts nothing.

**1. Find Foundable Ads**

In Run, press **Ads** in Ted’s apps. If **Foundable Ads** is under **Not in Run**, press **+** beside it. On a phone, Ted’s apps sit under Start on Run’s card, or behind ▦ (**Run tools**) while he works.

**2. Open your ad money**

Press **Ad money** on its tile, or **Add money** while you have none. The **Foundable Ads** window opens.

**3. Add money**

Enter an amount under **Amount to add**, then press **Add**, which names the amount. A checkout page opens and shows any tax before you pay.

Back in Foundable, the window confirms your payment, and your ad money goes up. Each payment’s **Receipt** is under **Funding history**.

## Approve a campaign

**1. Review Ted’s campaign**

Ted’s campaign waits under **From Ted** on [Home](https://docs.foundable.com/get-started/home.md). Press **Review** to see the ad, its total with the Foundable fee shown apart, and how many days it runs. Press **Edit** to change its words, picture, countries, total or days.

**2. Approve its total**

Press **Approve … and run**, which names the total. This also accepts the campaign terms the card links to. Foundable sets the total aside from your ad money, and the ad starts once Facebook has checked it. Short of ad money? **Add … to run this ad** stands in Approve’s place: press it to add what’s missing.

To stop a campaign, press its row under **From Ted**, or under **Your ads** in the Foundable Ads window, then **Pause**. A paused campaign doesn’t start again, so ask Ted for a new one. Taking **Foundable Ads** out of Run pauses every campaign. Ted never approves a campaign himself, even with **On its own**.

## Check that it worked

Once Facebook approves the campaign, its row says **Running**. Press it to see **Spent, including fee**, what’s still **Reserved**, and **How it’s doing**. When a campaign ends or you pause it, its row says **Stopped**. Once Facebook sends the final cost, what it didn’t spend goes back to your ad money.

## If something goes wrong

> [accordion] “This ad’s link isn’t on a website you’ve published. Publish the website, or ask Ted to change the link.”
>
> Its link goes somewhere other than your published website. [Publish the website](https://docs.foundable.com/build/publish.md), or ask Ted to change the link.

> [accordion] “Pro or Max is required to add funds. Your balance and receipts remain available.”
>
> Your plan doesn’t cover ad money. To add some, [change your plan](https://docs.foundable.com/account/change-your-plan.md) to Pro or Max.

> [accordion] “Only the owner can add funds.”
>
> You’re a teammate, not the owner. Ask the owner to add money and approve the campaign.

## Related

> [card] [Run ads on Facebook, Google and more](https://docs.foundable.com/run/ads.md)
>
> Ads from your own ad accounts.

> [card] [Run: Ted runs your business](https://docs.foundable.com/run/overview.md)
>
> Ted’s apps, and how Run works.

> [card] [Compare what each plan includes](https://docs.foundable.com/account/compare-plans.md)
>
> Which plans include ads.


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