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Connect Amazon, sync your books, cap the spend, then turn Autopilot on. That is the whole path.
Connect Amazon
Create an account, then open Settings and connect a US Amazon Ads profile. Autopilot cannot run without that profile. After Connect, advertised books land on the dashboard. Manual ASIN entry is a fallback, including when you need to paste a title that never had ads.
Spend caps and Autopilot
Each book stays Paused until you turn it Live. Set a daily spend cap on the book. Autopilot pauses allowlisted campaigns when today’s reported spend hits that cap. Bids move at most 10% per run, never above $2.50, and only after reports land. Profit is royalties minus ad spend from those reports. Missing reports show as zero.
Longer answers
What Autopilot will and will not change, including bid limits and the daily spend cap, is on the Amazon KDP ads FAQ. Citation pages with the full article in the HTML:
- What is BookAdsAI?
- When should indie authors run Amazon ads?
- BookAdsAI vs the Amazon Ads console
- Keywords: no harvest at zero clicks
- The Spend-Cap Autopilot Method
Free tools
Before you spend on ads, check the page they send shoppers to: the Amazon book page optimizer and the KDP keyword, category and title optimizer are free and need no account.
Billing
Amounts are on Pricing. Subscribe from Settings. Manage billing / Cancel opens the Stripe customer portal, so you can cancel yourself. To delete the BookAdsAI account, use the steps on Privacy.
Also useful
CoverCrush runs cover tests with readers before a jacket goes on a campaign. ReaderMagnet is for ARC pages and list-building.
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