Connect Google Analytics and Salesforce for your business
Google Analytics and Salesforce each hold numbers the other never sees. askotter reads both and tells you, by text, what they mean together.
What do you get by connecting Google Analytics and Salesforce?
askotter reads Google Analytics and Salesforce side by side and puts both in one report for the business. The owner sees how activity in one leads to results in the other, gets an alert when a number moves and can ask questions by text.
- From Google Analytics
- Sessions and pageviews, User demographics and geography, Traffic source and medium.
- From Salesforce
- Leads and opportunities, Account and contact data, Pipeline stages and velocity.
- Status
- Salesforce is on the integration roadmap, so the matching described here starts when that connector ships.
- Not for
- Replacing Google Analytics or Salesforce. Both keep working exactly as they do now.
Why connect Google Analytics and Salesforce
GA4 visits sit beside your payments, bookings and ad spend. You see who came, who booked and where they came from. It fits into our GA4 setup work.
How Google Analytics and Salesforce records line up
Google Analytics and Salesforce both keep the UTM source, medium and campaign values from the visit, so activity lines up campaign by campaign even when no single person can be matched.
Shared between the two: the UTM campaign tags.
Salesforce is on the integration roadmap, so the matching described here starts when that connector ships.
What each tool sees on its ownShow less
Google Analytics on its own
GA4 sees what people do on the site. It does not see refunds, repeat purchases made offline, or the deal a lead turned into later.
Timing. GA4 collects events in near real time, and Google says standard reports can take 24 to 48 hours to finish processing.
Access. The GA4 Data API with read access to the property.
Salesforce on its own
Salesforce sees leads, accounts and opportunities. It knows which campaign produced a lead only when someone records it there.
Timing. Salesforce opportunity stages move when someone updates them, so pipeline data is as current as the team's CRM habits.
Access. A connected app with read-only access to Lead, Contact, Account and Opportunity.
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Questions about Google Analytics + Salesforce
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Google Analytics + Salesforce is coming soon
Talk to us about your timeline, and we will confirm the launch date before you commit.
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