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Offline conversions

Sales that happen away from your website — on a call, in a store or signed in your CRM — and are reported back to your ads.

In plain English

Offline conversions are the deals that don't close on your website. A prospect clicks your ad, fills in a form, and then the real sale happens later — over the phone, in a meeting, at the counter, or after a quote your sales team sends. That final "yes" lives in your CRM or invoicing tool, not in the browser.

Reporting offline conversions means feeding those wins back to Meta or Google so they know which clicks turned into actual money.

A concrete example

A kitchen-fitting company gets 100 form fills from Meta ads this month. Only 12 become customers, and they're worth an average of €9,000 each — €108,000 in total. But Meta only sees the 100 form fills on the website; it has no idea which 12 actually bought. So it keeps chasing more form fills, including cheap tyre-kickers. By sending the 12 real sales (and their values) back as offline conversions, the company tells Meta exactly which kind of person becomes a €9,000 customer — and Meta goes hunting for more of them.

Why it matters for your business

For any business where the sale closes after the click — services, B2B, big-ticket retail — the website only tells half the story. Without offline conversions, your ad platform optimises for form fills instead of revenue, and you pay for leads that never buy. Closing the loop lets the platform learn from real outcomes, so your budget shifts toward the customers who actually pay you.

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