Why do Chargebee and Google Ads Need to Be Connected?
Chargebee is a powerful subscription management platform allowing its users to manage subscriptions. Payments through it are usually processed through Stripe, and it's also a valuable data source for marketers to understand what drives revenue up or down and the lifetime value of customers.
Both Chargebee and Google ads contain significant data, but without a platform such as Able CDP integration between the two can be difficult. Using Able to report Chargebee sales in Google Ads extends its reporting capabilities to include the value of conversions, enabling reporting on ROI and performance-based targeting and optimization.
Here are some reasons why conversion tracking built into Google Ads is not enough:
Combining browser and server-side tracking to report conversions via the server-to-server Google Ads API integration solves these problems.
A Complete Solution for Integrating Chargebee and Google Ads
Able Customer Data Platform is the ultimate way to integrate Chargebee and Google Ads.
Able combines browser tracking with server API integrations, linking website activity with purchases on the back-end to build a complete journey of each customer across Chargebee and Google Ads.
This allows you to attribute 99% of sales to the correct marketing source, ad click and landing page and obtain data to inform strategy.
All of this without coding and complex manual set-up of the connection between Stripe and Google Ads. Able already knows how to connect marketing data between Chargebee and Google Ads.
This will bring value to your company, as you will be able to obtain the best quality data possible and use it to improve customer journey mapping and targetting by knowing which marketing areas bring the most customers.
How Able CDP Integrates Chargebee and Google Ads
Able tracks Chargebee subscriptions and individual payments by processing webhooks from Stripe and attributing them to the original visitor tracked by Able, allowing you to send purchase conversions to Google Ads.
Able CDP combines browser and back-end tracking to:
Even if the same customer accesses Chargebee or Google Ads from multiple devices, Able will make sure to properly attribute purchases to the original visit and allow you to see the customer's interactions across the entire sales funnel.
5 Steps to Connect Chargebee with Google Ads by Using Able
Complete the sign up form to create a trial account.
After signing up for a free account, Able CDP will prompt you to add code to your website.
This tracking code will record ad click ids and details of the original landing page visit, as well as lead form submissions, allowing to attribute customers to website visitors. Able CDP uses its tracking to capture UTM parameters, referrer URL and landing page URL, store them in its own attribution database together with the personal identifiers such as email or phone, entered by customer in lead and order forms, allowing it to associate all future customer activity with the original website visitor source.
Add lead form URLs to the HTML Forms Tracking section to let Able automatically recognize the sign-up and lead forms you're using. Any standard lead form widgets that we could detect during the account setup will appear in the Dynamic Lead Forms Tracking section.
Press "Generate" in the Get Code section to generate a unique tracking code to add to your site.
Able CDP page view tracking doesn't install its own cookies and relies on third-party identifiers such as Google Analytics Client Id to connect customer activity between website pages. Please enable cross-domain measurement in Google Analytics if your landing and lead/order pages are hosted on different domains.
Able Customer Data Platform attributes Chargebee payments (processed using Stripe) to the original marketing source.
To send Purchase events from Stripe to Able:
Able CDP will now receive webhooks from Stripe, automatically attributing Purchases by customer emails and phones and sending Purchase conversions with payment amounts.
If you need to recognize conversion during user actions (for example, immediately after a service is consumed, rather than when its successfully billed), consider a direct integration with Able REST API.
1. Google Ads Setup.
The first step to start using a server-to-server integration is to configure Google Ads. The Part 1 of the ‘Set up offline conversion tracking‘ guide in Google Ads Help covers two necessary steps to begin: enabling auto-tagging and setting up a Conversion Action – a hint telling Google Ads how to process your conversions.
(Google refers to all conversions that aren’t tracked by its JS tracking code as ‘offline’. They may not actually happen offline, such as in a store, and would more often be a result of online user activity.)
2. Google Ads Customer Data Terms
To make sure that all conversions are processed, the Google Ads account must have accepted Customer Data Terms. This only needs to be done once per account and the Data Terms will be valid for all conversions automatically.
Open Tools - Conversions - Settings - Method for measuring offline conversions. Check that Enhanced conversions for leads method is selected and accept customer data terms.
3. Connect Able to Google Ads
In Able's platform, there is a ‘Sign In With Google’ button that will grant Able access to your Google Ads API, allowing you to send purchase conversions to Google Ads.
4. Create compatible conversion action in Google Ads
To do so, open Tools - Conversions in Google Ads. Click New Conversion Action - Import - Other data sources or CRMs - Track conversions from clicks. Enter desired conversion and attribution parameters and create conversion.
5. Send Able events as Google Ads Conversion Actions
Select the new Google Ads credential, and choose ‘Purchase’ event type. Able will display a list of Google Ads Customers your Google account has access to manage. Choose the one that has the Conversion Action that has been created in Google Ads Manager in the first step.
Press ‘Save’ button to save settings. Able Customer Data Platform will start sending all purchases it attributed to Google Ads clicks to Google Ads API.
Learn More
Read more about Able CDP tracking and attribution engine and how it utilizes a customer journey database to correctly attribute all purchases to the original visitors.
“A valuable insight we've got because of using Able Customer Data Platform is that display ads aren't working for us at all... we've been wasting money for years on paid display ads.
Before Able we'd be excited about every lead or email that came through, but after the last year we've determined that those don't convert at all.
And so we've been focusing on paid search, which does have return on investment.”
— Bryan Brinton, Co-Founder, Aluvii Software
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