For Auto Dealers

Which ads delivered units?

Match delivered vehicles and front-end gross to the calls, forms and ads that produced them.

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Auto Dealers workspace August 2026
Revenue traced to a channel

$429,000 66% of $650,000 paid

  • Google Ads $188,500 · 29%
  • Listing sites $156,000 · 24%
  • Meta Ads $84,500 · 13%
  • Direct / Unknown $221,000 · 34%
Direct / Unknown is shown, never shared out across the channels above.
Google Ads · LeadAug 14 · (•••) •••-0134
Closed sale · Aug 27$3,090
Matched · high confidence

The blind spot

What's actually happening

Third-party listing sites, your own site, Meta and Google all claim the same buyer. Everyone's report says they produced the lead, and the sum of the claims is several times the number of cars you actually sold.

What you get

Built for Auto Dealers.

Delivered units and gross

Rank channels by vehicles delivered and gross earned, not by leads claimed.

Sits over your existing stack

Your DMS export and your lead exports. Nothing to install, no vendor to swap.

Claims you can check

Only exact matches count automatically, so a listing site cannot claim a buyer it never sent.

A worked example

The number you can take into a budget meeting.

Not impressions, not leads, not cost per click. Closed revenue, by the channel that produced it, for a period you choose — with the portion we could not trace shown rather than quietly shared out across your paid channels.

Total revenue$650,000paid revenue
Attributed to a channel$429,00066% of revenue
Average deal$3,090per paid sale
Match rate73%of sales matched
ChannelSalesRevenueShare%
Google Ads62$188,50029%
Listing sites51$156,00024%
Meta Ads29$84,50013%
Direct / Unknown68$221,00034%
01

Everyone claims the same buyer

A shopper visits three listing sites, clicks a Meta ad, searches your dealership by name, then calls. Every one of those platforms reports the lead. Add up what your vendors claim and you have sold each car two or three times over.

The only arbiter is your DMS: which of those shoppers actually took delivery, and what the gross was. Matching that against the lead exports gives one number per channel that sums to the units you really sold, which is the report that makes a vendor conversation short.

02

Phone-up and walk-in are not the same as untracked

A large share of dealership sales still start with a phone call or a walk-in, and those are exactly the buyers that click attribution cannot see. Treating them as untracked and ignoring them means ignoring most of the store.

Matching on the customer's phone number or email catches the phone-up who saw an ad three weeks earlier. What genuinely cannot be traced stays in Direct / Unknown rather than being spread across the paid channels, so the paid numbers keep meaning something.

Why it matters

What changes when you can prove it.

You stop defending the budget and start growing it

"We generated 400 leads" invites an argument. "This channel closed $186,400 last quarter, here is the reconciliation" ends one. The teams that can show closed revenue by channel are the teams that get the next increase approved, because they are asking with evidence rather than with conviction.

You can cut the wrong channel without a fight

Killing spend is politically harder than adding it, because someone always owns the channel being cut. A number that reconciles to the sales export takes the argument out of the room — you are not overruling a colleague's judgement, you are reading the same ledger they are.

Your reporting survives the finance review

Platform-reported conversions do not reconcile to revenue, and eventually someone in finance notices. Reporting built from your own closed-sales export starts from the number finance already trusts, which is why it holds up when it is checked.

You answer in an afternoon, not a quarter

Because this reconciles exports rather than tracking visitors, it works on months that have already closed. You are not instrumenting now to learn something in ninety days — you can answer for last quarter today, which is usually when the question is being asked.

Honest answers

The pushback we hear from Auto Dealers.

They say

Our DMS export is enormous.

We say

Only delivered units matter, and only a contact detail, an amount and a date on each. Most stores export a few hundred rows a month, which is well inside a standard plan.

They say

The listing sites will dispute this.

We say

They usually do, and that is the point of only counting exact matches. A claim that a buyer came from a listing site is checkable against whether that buyer's phone number appears in that site's own lead export.

They say

We sell to a lot of repeat customers.

We say

Repeat and referral business shows as Direct / Unknown, which is honest. It is a genuinely large share for most stores and worth measuring rather than hiding inside a paid channel.

Pricing

Flat monthly pricing. No per-call fees.

The number here is the number on the invoice — no per-call, per-minute or per-form fees. Most franchise and independent dealerships land on Growth — thirteen months of history to compare a month to the same month last year, and a PDF you can put in front of whoever holds the budget.

Questions

Questions we get about Auto Dealers.

Anything else? Talk to us — a person answers, usually the same day.

Delivered units: customer phone or email, front-end gross or total, and the delivery date. CDK, Reynolds, Dealertrack and similar all produce this.

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