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Why Your Ad Platform and Shopify Revenue Numbers Never Match

Comparison of revenue figures reported by Meta Ads, Google Ads, Google Analytics and Shopify showing attribution discrepancies across measurement platforms

Meta claims one revenue figure, Google claims another, and Shopify shows a third, all for the same time period. None of them are wrong. Each platform measures a different thing through different attribution logic, and the gaps between them are structural rather than fixable. This guide explains what each system actually counts and how to build a reporting framework that uses each for what it measures well.