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What is a Budget Alert?

A budget alert notifies you when agent spend crosses a configured threshold — the monitoring layer on top of enforced ceilings.

How it works

Thresholds per agent, category, or fleet.

Alerts fire on approach and breach.

Alert vs ceiling

An alert tells you; a ceiling stops it.

Run both: alerts for awareness, ceilings for enforcement.

FAQ

What thresholds should I set?

80% of the ceiling (approach) and 100% (breach).

Do alerts replace ceilings?

No — alerts inform, ceilings enforce. Both.

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