🚦 Traffic Control

is a feature designed for accounts managing multiple websites within Squid. While it’s especially powerful for agencies, anyone with more than one website can use it.

💡 Why Use Traffic Control?

When you add websites under your Squid account:

• All sites share the same pool of credits (Event Traffic and VisitorID credits).
• By default, each website has unlimited access to this pool.

However, if:

• One website consumes significantly more credits than others, it can monopolize resources.
• You want to resell Squid services to clients with specific caps (e.g. offering a client 100 Visitor IDs only).

Traffic Control allows you to:

✅ Cap the amount of credits each site can use
✅ Distribute credits fairly across websites
✅ Enable tiered pricing for agency clients

⚙️ How to Set Up Traffic Control

✅ Pre-req: You’ve signed up for a Squid account here.

🔢 Step 1 – Access Traffic Control

1. Log in to your Squid account as an Account Owner.
2. On the top right of your dashboard, click the Traffic Control button

🔢 Step 2 – Configure Credit Caps

1. You will see a list of your websites.
2. For each website, you can set:

• Traffic Event credits (e.g. 10,000 events)
• VisitorID credits (e.g. 100 IDs)

3. If you leave a field blank, the website will have unlimited access to that credit type.

🔢 Step 3 – Save Settings

1. After setting the desired caps, click Save.
2. You will see a credit usage meter for each website:

• 🟡 Turns yellow as a warning when approaching the cap.
• 🔴 Turns red when credits are critically low or have run out.

You also can see the credit usage meters back on the overview screen that lists your websites.

⚠️ Important Considerations

➔ If a website runs out of Traffic Event credits, it will stop visitor identifications, even if VisitorID credits remain.
➔ Always ensure adequate Traffic credits are available for each website to function properly.

🎯 Benefits of Traffic Control

✅ Fair distribution of credits across sites
✅ Prevents a single site from monopolizing your account resources
✅ Supports agency resale and client-specific plans
✅ Provides full visibility and control of credit usage

Updated on: 30/06/2025