Close a promotional offer by coordinating the advertisement, destination page, checkout conditions and follow-up messages around one approved expiry definition. Pausing a single campaign is not enough if other placements still promise the offer. Egyptian ecommerce teams need an explicit owner for each surface and a verified state after the cutoff.
Define what expires and when
Write the offer’s approved scope, eligible products, conditions, start and end time, and time zone. Identify whether expiry applies to order submission, payment or another confirmed condition. Use the actual business terms; do not improvise a rule during the final campaign review or rely on an ambiguous date in a creative file.
Assign a commercial owner to resolve questions and an operational owner to execute changes. Record who can approve an extension and how that approval reaches every publishing team. An informal request to keep an advertisement running should not silently change the customer-facing terms.
Map every active promise
List paid ads, landing pages, product pages, promotional codes, banners, scheduled messages and downloadable materials that carry the offer. Include language variants and mobile experiences. For each item, record its destination, owner, planned closing action and verification method. Preserve links to the actual placements rather than only their draft names.
Google’s unavailable-offers policy prohibits promises of unavailable offers or offers that cannot easily be found at the destination. This supports a straightforward check: a visitor following an active advertisement should encounter the offer that the advertisement describes. Review the whole path, not just the headline.
Prepare the post-expiry destination
Decide what visitors should see after the promotion ends. A useful page can clearly state that the offer has ended and direct them to the currently available range or a genuine contact option. Do not preserve a misleading price or replace the original promise with an unrelated product without explanation.
Check whether saved links, previously sent messages and organic shares will still reach that page. The closing state must work for these visitors as well as for newly acquired traffic. Keep the explanation consistent across Arabic and English, including the conditions and relevant dates.
Rehearse the closing sequence
Before expiry, verify access to the systems that require changes. Confirm which actions are scheduled and which need a person. Check the schedule’s time zone and the expected destination state. Retain a fallback contact for a failed update, with authority to stop promotion while the discrepancy is resolved.
Test the offer path without placing an unauthorized real order. Inspect visible terms and the applicable checkout behavior through an approved testing process. Record unresolved dependencies before the cutoff. A campaign operator should not discover missing website access only when an expired promise is already being shown.
Verify closure and handle exceptions consistently
After the cutoff, inspect live advertisements where possible, destination pages, codes and scheduled follow-ups. Record the evidence and time of each check. Investigate discrepancies between a stopped placement and a still-visible offer instead of assuming that one completed action closed the entire promotion.
Keep customer questions and approved exceptions with the commercial owner. Do not create an extension through inconsistent support replies. At review, identify missed surfaces, unclear conditions and ownership gaps. Improve the next expiry checklist from those observations, while keeping campaign performance analysis separate from proof that the offer was closed correctly.
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References
Google Ads policy: unavailable offers
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