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Short answer: Go to Settings → Cost controls and set a ceiling for each kind of run: video, image ads and campaign. If a run would cost more than your ceiling, UGCFirst pauses and asks you first.
  • Set the Campaign run ceiling first. Campaign prices vary the most.
  • Each ceiling starts with a number in it, and none can be left empty.
If you are worried about credits disappearing faster than you meant, this is the setting to use. Settings → Cost controls lets you set a ceiling on what a single run may cost. “Set a ceiling per run. If an estimate goes above it, we pause and ask first.”

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Setting a ceiling

There are three, and they are set separately: Each box already has a number in it when you arrive. Change it to the most you are happy for one run to cost, then press Save ceilings. A box can’t be left empty, and the smallest ceiling is 1 credit.

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What happens when a run goes over

It does not fail and it does not silently cost you more. The run pauses and asks you first, before any credits are taken.

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Why bother, when you already approve everything

You already see the script before anything renders, so nothing is made without you. The app is direct about this — “Nothing generates without your approval — ceilings are a second safety net.” The ceiling catches the case approval does not: the run that is correct, that you would have approved, but that costs more than you realised. Campaign is the one to set, because a campaign is a set of outputs rather than one, so its price moves with what ends up in it.

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A sensible starting point

Set the Campaign run ceiling first, at roughly what you would be comfortable spending in one go. Leave Video and Static alone until something surprises you — a single video or a few stills has a predictable price, which you can check against the credit costs.