Stockout Ad Pausing with Claude for Amazon Sellers

What they did

When the main SKU went out of stock, Claude paused all related campaigns the same morning. When the restock landed at FBA, Claude flagged it in the daily check and suggested restarting those exact campaigns before Amazon flipped the listing to in-stock; after approval it restarted them in Scale Insights as a batch action.

How it went

The author estimates the pause saved about $130/day in wasted spend and reports ACOS of 19.6% and 26.1% on the two days around the restock, with TACOS 7-8%. 'I clicked approve twice.'

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Worth knowing

The author pairs this with a rule from another post: pausing isn't always right when restock is only days away (see the tiered-pause case).

Copy-paste prompt

Every morning, check my FBA inventory and my Sponsored Products campaigns.
- If an advertised ASIN has 0 sellable units, list every campaign/ad group advertising it and recommend pausing them. Estimate the daily spend at risk.
- If an ASIN I paused for stockout now shows inbound units received at FBA, recommend re-enabling exactly those campaigns before the listing goes back in stock.
Never act without my explicit approval. Show me a table: ASIN, stock status, campaigns affected, recommended action.

The source didn't publish its exact prompt. We wrote this starter so you can try the same workflow. Replace anything in [brackets].