---
title: "Pause Google Ads campaign"
method: POST
path: "/api/apps/{app_id}/google-ads/campaigns/{campaign_id}/pause"
---

# Pause Google Ads campaign

`POST /api/apps/{app_id}/google-ads/campaigns/{campaign_id}/pause`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://app.base44.com`
- URL: `https://app.base44.com/api/apps/{app_id}/google-ads/campaigns/{campaign_id}/pause`
- Auth: one of:
  - HTTP bearer
  - API key in header `api_key`
  - HTTP bearer
- TypeScript: <https://skmtc.dev/adexad/apis/base44-app-management-api/docs/api/apps/:app_id/google-ads/campaigns/:campaign_id/pause/post.ts> (a function with typed inputs; its response is checked against the schema)

<Info>This API is in beta. Endpoints, fields, and behavior may still change, so avoid depending on it in production.</Info>

Stops a campaign serving. It keeps its settings and its history, and [Resume campaign](/api-reference/resume-google-ads-campaign) starts it again.

Pausing takes effect within a few minutes on Google's side. Spend already incurred today is still billed. Pausing an already-paused campaign succeeds and changes nothing.

Unlike resuming, this needs no payment method on file, because it only reduces spend.

<Note>This endpoint accepts a personal API key or a workspace API key. A workspace API key acts as the workspace owner.</Note>

<Warning>A 409 means the change may or may not have been applied. The request to Google Ads timed out after it was sent. Read the campaign back with [Get campaign](/api-reference/get-google-ads-campaign) before retrying, or you can end up applying it twice.</Warning>

<Warning>The response includes fields beyond the ones documented here. Don't rely on undocumented response fields, as they can change at any time.</Warning>

## Path parameters

- `app_id` string, required: ID of the app whose Google Ads campaigns to manage.
- `campaign_id` string, required: Base44's ID for the campaign, as returned in `id` by [List campaigns](/api-reference/list-google-ads-campaigns). This is not the Google Ads campaign ID, which is reported separately as `google_campaign_id`.

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- CampaignStatusResponse: Acknowledgement returned by the single-campaign state changes.
  - `status` string, required: The action that was applied: `paused`, `resumed`, or `deleted`.

## Other responses

- `400`: Google Ads rejected the request, for example ad text that breaks its policies or a budget below the currency's minimum. The response message carries Google's reason.
- `401`: Missing or invalid credentials.
- `403`: You don't have access to this app or the app does not exist. A missing app and an app you cannot reach are deliberately the same answer. Marketing setup, campaign edits, generation and resuming also return `app_marketing_not_allowed` when the app's owning workspace has the FERPA designation. Historical reads, pausing, deletion and financial settlement remain available.
- `404`: The app has no connected Google Ads account, or there is no campaign with this ID.
- `409`: The request to Google Ads timed out after being sent, so the change may or may not have been applied. Read the campaign back before retrying.
- `429`: Google Ads is rate limiting the account. Retry later.
- `503`: Database temporarily unavailable (`database_unavailable`): the data cluster did not answer in time. Retry after the `Retry-After` seconds.

## Changes

> 119 revisions in range; 1 not diffed.

- **2026-11-08** `e51af2957a57`: 1 info
  - added the non-success response with the status `503`
- **2026-11-01** `0ca6a43fceb9`: 2 info
  - the endpoint scheme security `WorkspaceApiKeyAuth` was added to the API
  - the endpoint scheme security `WorkspaceApiKeyBearerAuth` was added to the API
- **2026-10-12** `5e139db2e643`: 1 info
  - the endpoint scheme security `PersonalAccessTokenAuth` was added to the API

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/adexad/apis/base44-app-management-api/changes/api/apps/:app_id/google-ads/campaigns/:campaign_id/pause/post.md)

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