Short answer
An advertising call leads to a verifiable sale when identifiers connect its source, the CRM opportunity and a confirmed close. Count customers and opportunities separately from phone events, and retain an explicit attribution rule.
Key verification: Follow a test contact through closing without creating a duplicate opportunity.
Sources and limitationsTo check if an advertising call ends in a sale, you need to join three records: the origin of the call, the business opportunity, and the closing result. The length of the conversation does not confirm a sale and the number of calls does not equal the number of customers.
Start by defining what you will consider a sale: signed contract, confirmed order or payment received. That choice changes the closing time and the value you will display. Always use the same criteria when comparing campaigns.
Build a trackable log
| Data | What is it for |
|---|---|
| Caller ID | Match phone log and detect forwarding |
| Opportunity identifier | Group conversations from the same purchasing process |
| Date, time and time zone | Reconcile events from different systems |
| Known source and campaign | Describe the observed origin, without inventing it |
| Status and reason | Distinguish attended, qualified, lost and gained |
| Value, Currency and Closing Date | Calculate Comparable Trading Results |
You don't need to record all calls to get started. A record of origin and a result confirmed by sales may answer the question. Identifying data must remain in authorized systems; for the aggregate report it uses internal references and quantities.
One call, several calls and one opportunity
Fictional example: a person calls from an advertisement, requests a quote and calls again two days later. The CRM records an opportunity and, a week later, a sale. The report should show two calls and one sale. If you register each call as a new customer, you inflate the acquisition volume.
The opposite case also matters: the same person can open two opportunities for different services. Define the relationship based on business process, not just by phone match. If an existing customer calls with an issue, classify it as service or support, not a new acquisition.
Set an attribution rule
Choose an understandable rule: for example, keep the first observed source of the opportunity and show subsequent contacts separately. You can also analyze the last known interaction, but do not mix models in the same comparison.
Attribution distributes credit according to a rule; It does not prove that a campaign alone caused the purchase. If the person saw advertising, searched for the brand and called later, the information available may be partial. Save “unknown” when you cannot relate the systems with enough evidence.
Calculate metrics that respond to decisions
Let's assume, with fictional figures, a €600 campaign, forty calls, twenty qualified opportunities and six confirmed sales. The advertising cost per call is €15, per qualified opportunity €30 and per sale €100. These costs do not include tools, personnel or other channels.
To compare the result you must also observe the value and the margin. If each sale brings €600 of revenue defined in the same way, there is €3,600 attributed and a ROAS of 6. That is not equivalent to six euros of profit for every euro invested: there are still costs of provision, cancellations and taxes depending on how you account.
Use cohorts: analyze the opportunities created in a period and allow them to mature. Dividing this month's sales by this month's calls can mix old closes with newly created opportunities. Indicates up to what date each group has been observed and which ones are still open.
Return only valid results to the platform
Google Ads supports importing call conversions under specific conditions. Requires a system that maintains call and outcome information, such as a CRM. Eligibility depends on the type of call and configuration: just uploading any phone sale is not enough. Importing call conversions .
Review applicable formats, account, time zone, and windows. Check the import results and prevent the same sale from being sent from two integrations. A useful call and a sell can be different actions, but they must be defined so that the optimization settings do not add up to the same financial goal twice.
The minimum report should show volume, call handling, qualification, sales, cost and unknowns. If you cannot explain how each figure is obtained, correct the route before changing the investment.
Sources and limitations
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- Importing call conversionssupport.google.com
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