How Does Quota Consumption Work for VWO Deploy?
Deploy quota depends on the start date of your Deploy plan. A visitor will be charged once per month (month starts on the date your Deploy plan starts) regardless of the number of Deploy campaigns they become a part of. However, if the same visitor becomes part of any Deploy campaign in the next month, the Deploy quota will be deducted again.
Consider you purchased a Deploy plan subscription on Oct 1st, 2020, and the following visitors (1, 2, 3, and 4) on your website interacted with deploy campaigns D1 and D2.
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Visitors |
Oct 5th, 2020 |
Oct 25th, 2020 |
Nov 5th, 2020 |
Total quota deducted |
Observation |
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Visitor 1 |
D1 |
D1 |
D1 |
2 |
Visitor 1 interacted with Deploy campaign D1 thrice (twice in the same month and once in the following month). Here, the visitor is counted twice (once for October and another for November) because the Deploy quota works on a monthly basis, i.e., in a month, a visitor will be counted only once, irrespective of the number of deploy campaigns they become a part of. |
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Visitor 2 |
D1 |
D1 |
- |
1 |
Visitor 2 interacted with Deploy campaign D1 twice in the same month but didn't return in the second month. Here, the visitor is only counted once because the Deploy quota works on a monthly basis, i.e., in a month, a visitor will be counted only once, irrespective of the number of deploy campaigns they become a part of. |
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Visitor 3 |
D1 |
D2 |
- |
1 |
Same as Visitor 2 |
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Visitor 4 |
D1 |
- |
D2 |
2 |
Visitor 4 interacted with Deploy campaign D1 in October and D2 in November. Here, the visitor is counted twice as the visitor became a part of D2 in another month. This is because the Deploy quota works on a monthly basis. |
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Overall till Nov 5th, 2020 |
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|
|
6 |
The total quota consumption by now is 6. |
Is the traffic quota counted twice if a Deploy experience is live on the same page as an A/B Test?
CASE-1: If you have both Deploy and Testing quota
In this situation, the Deploy quota is counted once, and the Testing quota is also counted once. This is because the visitor became a part of the Testing as well as the Deploy campaigns. As a result, both Testing and Deploy quotas are deducted.
If the same visitor returns to the same page the following month, another Deploy quota is deducted (as Deploy works on monthly users), but not the Testing quota.
CASE-2: If you only have a Testing quota
If the visitor becomes a part of testing and Deploy, only one Testing quota is deducted.
In the following month, if the same visitor is returning to the same page where the Deploy campaign is running, but the Testing campaign is paused, another Testing quota is deducted. This is because the visitors are counted once a month in Deploy (unlike Testing, once per visitor regardless of months).
What happens if you don't start the deploy campaign that you created from an A/B test?
If you don't start the Deploy campaign from the A/B test, the newly created Deploy campaign will continue to be linked to the A/B test and is shown in a tile on the Summary and Report page. You can start the Deploy campaign whenever you want.
What happens to the schedule of an A/B test if the linked Deploy campaign starts?
When you start a linked Deploy campaign, and the A/B test still has a few schedules that can enable the A/B test in the future (such as a recurring starting schedule), it will be disabled.
Do you need to update the manual campaign activation code in the Deploy campaign?
If you have manual campaign activation in your A/B test and copy it to the Deploy campaign, you will need to update your website's activation code. This is because the campaign activation code contains the campaign ID, and when a new campaign gets created, the campaign ID changes.
Do you need to update the self-hosting files in the Deploy campaign?
If you have self-hosting enabled in your A/B test, you do not get an option to copy it to the Deploy campaign, as this feature is not available in Deploy.
What happens when you have exhausted your deployment quota?
If you have a testing quota, the deploy campaigns will use that quota; else, your campaigns will be paused.