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Meta Ads Marketing: Measure Spend, ROAS and Profit After Ads

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The marketing module brings your Meta (Facebook and Instagram) Ads performance into the platform and measures it against the revenue your orders actually produced. Go beyond ROAS to blended ROAS, customer acquisition cost and profit after ad spend.

The metrics that matter

Track spend, impressions, reach, clicks, CTR, CPC, CPM, purchases and ROAS per campaign and per day.

  • ROAS — purchase value divided by spend, straight from your ad insights.
  • Blended ROAS — total revenue (all channels) divided by ad spend.
  • Profit after ads — gross profit minus ad spend, so you see what you actually keep.

Blended view across channels

Because the platform already knows your real revenue and COGS, it can blend ad spend against total sales — a truer picture than the ad platform’s in-app ROAS alone.

Budget pacing

Daily and lifetime budgets are tracked against actual spend so you can spot over- or under-pacing campaigns and reallocate.

Step-by-step

  1. 1

    Connect Meta

    Authorise the marketing integration to pull campaign insights.

  2. 2

    Review performance

    Open the marketing widget and ad report for spend, ROAS and CTR.

  3. 3

    Check blended ROAS

    Compare ad spend against total revenue, not just attributed sales.

  4. 4

    Optimise

    Shift budget toward campaigns with the best profit after ads.

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between ROAS and blended ROAS?

ROAS is the ad platform’s attributed return; blended ROAS divides your total revenue by ad spend for a whole-business view.

Does it account for product cost?

Yes — profit after ads uses COGS-aware gross profit, then subtracts spend.

Can I see day-by-day trends?

Yes, spend and ROAS are charted over time.

Troubleshooting

No campaign data.

Re-authorise the Meta connection and confirm the date range covers active campaigns.

ROAS looks off.

Ad-platform attribution differs from blended ROAS by design; compare like for like.

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