How do I pause a campaign or change its end date?
Last updated: 31 October 2026 · The MargenOptimierer app is in German. Button and menu names are shown exactly as you see them, with the English meaning in brackets.
In the Werbekonsole (ad console), the Kampagnen (campaigns) tab shows each campaign's status. One click on it queues pausing a running campaign or resuming a paused one, and you change the end date in the menu at the end of its row. Neither applies at OTTO until you send it to OTTO from the Changelog. While a campaign is paused, OTTO doesn't show its ads, and because you pay per click, there's no ad spend during the pause.
How it works
- In the menu under Werbung (advertising), open the Werbekonsole and then the Kampagnen tab.
- In the Status column, click the campaign's status. The new status then appears next to the old one.
- For an end date, open the three-dot menu at the end of the row and click Enddatum ändern (change end date).
- Pick the day and click Vormerken (queue).
- Send the changes to OTTO as described in How do I send my changes to OTTO?
Example: End date after the garden season
The campaign “Automatic – Garden furniture” runs without an end date, and today is 27 October 2026. It should end after the garden season. In the Enddatum ändern window you pick 31 October 2026 and send the change. After that day OTTO ends the campaign.
If you want to stop it for a week before then, click its status and send the change. It's then paused at OTTO. A week later, click the status again and send that too, and the campaign runs again. The campaign's items, keywords and bids stay in place during the pause.
What else matters when you pause
A campaign that has ended
If the Status column shows „Beendet“ (ended) or „Abgebrochen“ (cancelled), you can neither resume the campaign nor change its end date. If you want to keep advertising the items, create a new campaign as described in How do I create campaigns for a product group?
Which end dates MargenOptimierer accepts
The new end date must be tomorrow at the earliest. If you leave the field empty, the campaign runs without an end date. If its budget applies to the Gesamtlaufzeit (whole run), it always needs an end date.
Many campaigns at once
Tick the campaigns and click Status in the bar at the bottom. Choose „Pausiert“ (paused) or „Aktiv“ (active) and click Vormerken. Only a campaign that's currently active or paused can be paused or resumed. MargenOptimierer leaves out all others, including a campaign that only starts later, and the window names them for you.
Next
- How do I send my changes to OTTO?
- Where do I change budgets and bids?