Retail & e-commerce · Acquisition

Paid acquisition and attribution for retail and e-commerce

Browser-side tracking now under-reports badly enough that platform-reported ROAS and actual revenue disagree, often by a margin wide enough to make the wrong decision look correct. The fix is not a better dashboard. It is joining spend to orders at the record instead of trusting each platform’s account of its own performance.

03Paid search & social · Landing pages
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Paid search & socialLanding pagesAttribution
Retail & e-commerceIllustrative

Acquisition

Paid, local presence, landing pages, and attribution.

Acquisition · Retail & e-commerceOne pairing of the matrix
Covers
Jewelry & fine goods · Salon & beauty retail · DTC brands
Architecture
Unchanged from every other vertical — only the breaks differ
Engagement
A defined build, or run under management

What usually breaks

Before anything gets built.

The same failures recur across retail & e-commerce. Strygon maps the specific system before proposing anything, but these are the ones worth checking for.

Slow storefront

The store is slow enough that ranking and conversion both suffer, and every speed test is a lost sale.

Blind tracking

Attribution runs on client-side pixels that browsers now block, so no one trusts the numbers.

Manual orders

Custom orders and invoices run on emailed PDFs and memory. That works at ten orders and breaks at a hundred.

Recurring in retail & e-commerceObserved pattern · the specific system still gets mapped

The approach

What Strygon does about it.

Acquisition, aimed at those failures specifically rather than at a generic checklist.

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Server-side conversion trackingAcquisition
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Part of the scoped build

Server-side conversion tracking

Conversions are sent server-side and joined to order data, so the number the business optimizes against is the number it banked.

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Report against marginAcquisition
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Part of the scoped build

Report against margin

Paid social and search performance is measured on margin rather than revenue, because revenue-positive and profit-positive are different campaigns.

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Returns land in the same numberAcquisition
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Part of the scoped build

Returns land in the same number

Attribution sits at the order record, so refunds and returns reduce the reported result instead of quietly inflating it.

The approach for this pairingScoped in writing before work starts

What gets built

Concrete deliverables.

Everything in acquisition, applied to how retail & e-commerce actually runs.

Paid search and paid social
Local presence and profile management
Landing pages and conversion tracking
Attribution that survives contact with reality
In scopeScoped in writing before work starts

Also for this industry

Other parts of the same system.

Start

Start with what’s broken.

Send the situation in a paragraph. Strygon comes back with a read on what’s likely wrong and what it would take to fix, before anyone talks about price.

Most builds start withleads dying in an inbox., three half-finished pipelines., follow-up nobody owns., numbers that never agree., four vendors blaming each other.

What to send
A paragraph. What broke, and where it shows up.
What comes back
A read on what is likely wrong and what fixing it takes.
Price
The last conversation, not the first