How to set up a proxy in AdsPower (Custom Proxy & Bulk Manager)

AdsPower, ad accounts and why the IP has to stay put

AdsPower is popular with performance marketers and e-commerce sellers: people running several Facebook or Google ad accounts, Amazon or TikTok Shop stores, and the teams of media buyers behind them. In that world an account that keeps showing up from new addresses tends to trigger security checks right when a campaign is spending.

A static proxy fixes the address for the life of the order. Give each ad account or store its own AdsPower profile and its own IP, and keep that pairing unchanged for as long as the account lives. Pick the IP country to suit the market and the business details on the account, for example a United States proxy for a US store.

Recommended AdsPower Custom Proxy settings

Inside New Profile -> Proxy -> Custom, configure the following options for VinaProxy proxies:

Using AdsPower's centralized Proxies Manager for teams

• Click Proxies in the left navigation bar and press Add Proxy
• Paste up to hundreds of ip:port:user:pass lines exported from your VinaProxy dashboard
• Assign saved proxies by Proxy ID when running Bulk Create so every new profile receives a unique static IP
• Update an expired proxy inside the Proxies Manager to update every linked profile automatically

Importing many profiles with proxies

When a team needs fifty profiles at once, use the bulk import feature in the profile list. AdsPower provides a template file; each row is one profile and has columns for the proxy type, host, port, username and password. Copy your proxy lines from Orders, split them into those columns in a spreadsheet, then upload the file.

After the import, run a check on a few profiles picked at random before handing them to the team. A single misaligned column, such as port numbers pasted into the host column, breaks every row below it.

Team habits that keep proxies tidy

• Use AdsPower groups per client or per market, and keep proxies from one country inside one group.
• Give members access to the profiles they need, not to the proxy credentials themselves.
• Keep timezone and language set from the proxy IP; a US ad account with a Vietnamese browser language raises questions.
• Renew before expiry. You can renew only the proxies tied to accounts that are still active.

When an AdsPower proxy check fails

• 407 or an authentication error: the proxy account or password field is wrong. Imported files often carry a hidden space at the end of a cell.
• Check fails without a code or times out: the host or port is off, the type is not HTTP, or the order ran out. Compare with Orders.
• Check succeeds but the country is wrong: test the same line in the proxy checker. Proxies showing the wrong location are covered by the refund policy.
• Only some imported profiles fail: open those rows in your spreadsheet; one shifted cell is the usual suspect.

AdsPower "proxy connection test failed": read the error, then fix

When Check Proxy fails in AdsPower, do not start guessing inside the profile. Paste that exact ip:port:user:pass line into the proxy checker first; the result tells you whether the fault is the proxy, the credentials or your own machine.

• Checker says `auth failed (407)`: wrong username or password, most often a stray space from an Excel import. Detailed fixes in 407 Proxy Authentication Required.
• Checker says `connect failed`: the port accepts no connections, usually a mistyped port or a protocol that does not match the order. See proxy server refusing connections.
• Checker says `timeout`: your network may be blocking the proxy port. Retry over mobile data and read proxy timeout.
• Checker says `not socks5`: SOCKS5 was chosen for an HTTP port. Set Proxy Type in AdsPower to the protocol shown on your order.
• Checker passes but AdsPower still fails: compare each profile field with the line you just tested; one shifted column during import breaks the whole profile.

Step by step

1. 1

   Click New Profile in AdsPower

   Open AdsPower and click New Profile in the top-left corner.

2. 2

   Select Custom -> HTTP Proxy

   Scroll to Proxy, select Custom, and set Proxy Type to HTTP.

3. 3

   Paste ip:port:user:pass and click Check Proxy

   Paste your VinaProxy proxy line into Host:Port and click Check Proxy until Connection test passed! appears.

4. 4

   Save and Open SunBrowser

   Click OK to save the profile, then click Open to launch the browser.

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