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How each platform defines a conversion

For almost every marketing platform, there are many different ways to configure conversion tracking and many different standard actions that can be tracked as conversions. While SourceMedium encourages you to track conversions on all levels that you find actionable, we have a more opinionated view on what should be considered a conversion within the reporting context of paid marketing. Within the Marketing Overview dashboard, the only action SourceMedium considers a conversion is when a platform reports a purchase of goods from your business. We find it is important to only include the conversions that are meant to report purchases on your site, and therefore drive revenue. This action can be called many different things depending on the platform (e.g. purchase vs. sale vs. payment etc.) and can be configured in many different ways. For example, Bing reports “Goals” which can then be configured to track different actions as conversions.

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Platform Definitions

Below are our platform-specific definitions for what is counted as a Conversion within SourceMedium’s Marketing Overview dashboard
  • Conversions WHERE Conversion Category = “omni_purchase”
    • Using the attribution window set at the campaign level within Meta
  • Conversions WHERE Goal CONTAINS “purchase” OR “sale” OR “subscription” OR “convert” OR “conversion” OR “ShopifyCheckoutComplete”
  • Using Total Complete Payments from TikTok as Conversions in SourceMedium
  • Using Purchases Total from Snapchat as Conversions in SourceMedium
    • # of attributed “PURCHASE” conversion events
  • Using attributed_conversions14d from Amazon Ads as Conversions in SourceMedium
  • Using Conversions (Checkout) from Pinterest as Conversions in SourceMedium
    • The sum of Click-through conversions (Checkout), Engagement conversions (Checkout) and View-through conversions (Checkout)
  • Using Actions for Performance by Partner from Impact as Conversions in SourceMedium
  • Using Sales from ShareASale as Conversions in SourceMedium
  • Using Placed Order from Klaviyo as Conversions in SourceMedium
  • Using Click: Purchase and View: Purchase from Conversions in SourceMedium
  • Using Purchases from X’s web conversion metrics as Conversions in SourceMedium
Each platform counts conversions inside its own attribution window. See What attribution windows does SourceMedium report on? and the Marketing Overview module.