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# Capping Website Credits 

# 🚦 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**

|| 🔒 Note: Traffic Control is only available for __Account Owners__.

✅ **Pre-req:** You’ve signed up for a Squid account [here](app.asksquid.ai).


### 🔢 **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

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### 🔢 **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.

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/d/c/1/0/dc100626db44b800/screenshot-2025-06-30-at-91052_2io4w.png =859xauto)



### 🔢 **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.

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

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### ⚠️ **Important Considerations**

|| VisitorID credits rely on Traffic credits.  
  ➔ 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