Managing Programs Status

Last updated: September 30, 2026

Influ2 gives you three ways to control a program's lifecycle: pause it temporarily, activate it when you're ready, or archive it when it's done. Knowing the difference matters — pausing is reversible; archiving is permanent.

Pausing a program

Pausing stops everything associated with a program: ad delivery, CRM actions, sales sequences and cadences, audience sync, and signal collection. Content statuses stay unchanged — your ads aren't deleted, just stopped.

To pause a program:

From the Programs List: click the three-dot menu (⋮) on the program row and select Pause.

No confirmation required — the program pauses immediately and its status badge updates to Paused. It stays visible in the Programs List and is still included in the Programs List scorecards.

Activating a program

Activating restarts everything that Pause stopped. Before you can resume, your program must have at least one audience added in the Cohort tab.

Keep in mind:  if you had individually paused specific activity cards (like a particular ad campaign or cadence) before pausing the whole program, those cards stay paused after you resume. Resuming the program doesn't override your per-card pause settings.

To resume a program:

From the Programs List: click the three-dot menu (⋮) on the program row and select Activate.

Scheduling an automatic pause ("Activate till date")

If you already know when a program should wind down, you don't have to remember to pause it yourself on that day. Set an Activate till date, and Influ2 automatically pauses the whole program once that date arrives — stopping ad delivery, CRM/sales actions, and signal listening together, exactly like a manual pause.

To set an Activate till date:

  1. From the program's state control, or from the Programs List row ⋮ menu, select Activate till date.

  2. Choose today or any future date.

While a date is set, the program shows an "Active till [date]" indicator and keeps running normally until then. In the Programs List, hovering over the program's status shows the same "Active till [date]" detail.

What happens on the date

The program automatically moves from Active to Paused — stopping the same things a manual pause stops: ad delivery, action execution, and signal listening. Once the auto-pause fires, the date clears from the program.

Keep in mind: the date is evaluated in UTC. If your team works in a different timezone, the pause may land a day earlier or later than expected by local-time reasoning.

Editing or removing the date

You can change or remove an Activate till date any time before it goes into effect — removing it cancels the scheduled pause. If you pause the program manually before the date arrives, the date is removed automatically; set it again once you resume if you still want a scheduled pause.

This is separate from the content-level stop date you can set on individual ad content in the Actions tab (see Within a Program: How to Use the Actions Tab). A content stop date pauses just that one creative; the Activate till date pauses the entire program. The two run independently — whichever date comes first is the one that takes effect.

Archiving a program

Archiving is irreversible. Use it for programs that are fully complete and shouldn't be counted in your active metrics.

Keep in mind: 

  • You cannot undo an archive. The program stops running (same scope as Pause), disappears from the default Programs List view, and is excluded from Programs List scorecards.

  • If you need to find it later, toggle Show archived in the Programs List.

  • Although archiving a program will remove metrics from active scorecards, the data from this program will remain in all reports for historical reference. Archiving a program will not delete data.

To archive a program:

From the Programs List: click the three-dot menu (⋮) on the program row and select Archive.

A confirmation dialog appears: "Are you sure?" Confirm to archive.

Finding archived programs

Archived programs are hidden by default. To show them, toggle Show archived in the Programs List. Archived programs appear in the table but remain excluded from scorecards regardless.