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Multi-touch attribution

Put your budget where it sells.

Model comparison for a demo store: revenue and ROAS per platform under Clicks only, First touch, Last touch, Last non-direct touch and Linear.
Demo store. Every figure is generated.

Every ad platform reports its own version of your sales. MTA follows each buyer from the first ad to checkout, matches them to the Shopify order, and splits the revenue across the ads that earned it. Spend sits on the same row, so ROAS and cost per customer come from one place you can check.

Reads your store and the platforms you buy on
  • Shopify
  • Meta
  • Google Ads
  • TikTok
  • YouTube
  • Instagram
  • Snapchat
  • Pinterest
  • Microsoft Advertising
  • Amazon Ads
  • AppLovin
  • Reddit
  • LinkedIn
  • X
  • The Trade Desk
  • Vibe
  • MNTN
  • Rokt
  • impact.com
  • OpenAI Ads
  • Klaviyo

Why it holds up

Attribution you can check.

Every number in a report goes back to a visit on your site, an order in your store or a platform's own spend figure.

  • Your own data

    Visits come from a pixel on your own site, orders from Shopify and spend from each platform. Every order in a report is a real order from your store.
  • Seven ways to read a sale

    Choose how credit is shared and how long an ad keeps it. Model comparison puts every model side by side for the same dates.
  • One total, whatever you pick

    Sales with no tracked ad get their own row, so every model adds up to the revenue your store took.

Sales attribution

Every campaign's real return, in one table.

Sales attribution for a demo store: a daily spend chart above a table of spend, clicks and visits by platform.
Demo store. Every figure is generated.

Spend, visits, orders, revenue, ROAS and cost per customer for each platform, then down through campaigns and ad sets to single ads, for any dates you pick.

Find the campaigns worth more budget and the ones to switch off, without adding up four dashboards that disagree.

Clicks + views

Credit for ads people saw and didn't click.

Clicks + Modeled Views, fitted per brand

unpaid orders(day) =

weekday + trend

+ Σ coefficient(platform) × impressions(day and day before)

coefficients ≥ 0 · video views as a second input where reported

  • 1Weekday and trend take out the regular rhythm of your unpaid orders.
  • 2What is left is shared out by each platform's impressions, and no platform can take credit away.
  • 3A day's view credit stops at the number of unpaid orders that day.

Refitted nightly over up to 120 days. Needs 28 days of orders with pixel data.

Video and reach ads often start a purchase that ends days later with a typed address. Two views models give those ads a fair share: one uses the view-through purchases Meta, Google Ads and TikTok report, the other estimates views from impressions.

Orders and products

Open any order and see what sold it.

Orders for a demo store: daily revenue and order counts above the list of orders and their touchpoints.
Demo store. Every figure is generated.

Each order lists the ads and visits that led to it, in order, with the share of credit each one got. Product attribution does the same for what was in the basket.

Windows and accounting

Judge the ads, or match your Shopify total.

Same order, two ways to date it

Accrual performance

On the day of the click: judge the week's ads by what they went on to sell.

Cash snapshot

On the day of the order: adds up to what Shopify recorded that day.

Illustrative: an ad click on Monday, the order on Thursday.

Decide how long a click keeps credit: from 1 day to 90 days, or for good. Then pick which day the revenue lands on.

Accrual performance puts revenue on the day of the ad click, so you can judge this week's ads on the sales they started. Cash snapshot puts it on the day of the order, so it adds up to what Shopify recorded.

Integrations

Every platform, read the same way.

  • ShopifyShopify
  • MetaMeta
  • Google AdsGoogle Ads
  • TikTokTikTok
Growth DeptMTA
  • Pixel
  • Orders API
  • Spend API
  • Export API

Shopify for orders, and Meta, Google Ads and TikTok for spend, with connectors built for 14 more ad platforms. Email, SMS, organic and referral traffic is sorted into channels from its links and tags, with nothing extra to connect.

Find out which ads really sell.

Book a 45-minute call with the Growth Dept team. We look at how you measure sales today and show you what MTA would add.