Irish ecommerce brand on Shopify
A fashion brand running Google and Meta ads, with GA4 and a Shopify store. The brief: get the website and backend tracking in order without changing the customer-facing site.
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All nine GA4 events were marked as key events. 99.64% of sessions counted as converting, which made conversion reporting meaningless.
Fixed: reduced to two key events, form submissions and purchases.
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Google Ads had 12 conversions on record: 11 add to basket, 1 checkout started, 0 purchases. Campaigns were set to optimise for baskets.
Fixed: purchase set as the only primary goal; the others kept for reporting only.
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GA4 recorded purchases with a value of zero, while Shopify recorded the sales. Google Ads was receiving values from the same app.
Escalated: diagnosed to the store's Google app and raised with Shopify and Google support with the evidence attached.
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Merchant Center told Google that returns were free. The shop's published policy said the customer pays return postage.
Fixed: return policy corrected, and a policy added for 15 countries the shop ships to that had none.
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GA4 kept detailed event data for two months only.
Fixed: extended to 14 months.
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Several key pages had no main heading for search engines.
Fixed: theme backed up first, headings corrected with no visible change to the design.
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Meta's purchase count matched the shop's order count, so tracking was not why paid social underperformed.
Reported: the bigger gap was product page to basket, which tracking fixes alone will not solve.
Outcome: measurement against the pre-work baseline is still in progress, so no result figures are published here yet.