Your Google Ads ROI dashboard, every click traced to revenue.

ROAS, attributed revenue, CAC, and LTV:CAC modeled from your Google Ads campaigns, keywords, and conversion actions, reconciled with Stripe for recognized revenue and QuickBooks for cost, so every dollar of spend traces back to the revenue it produced.

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What’s in a google ads roi dashboard?

What’s in a google ads roi dashboard?

A Google Ads ROI dashboard is the single governed view of what your search and display spend returns: ROAS derived from Google Ads campaign and ad group spend tied to conversion actions, attributed revenue traced through the CRM to recognized billing, and CAC computed from total spend over new customers. Every metric traces from the Google Ads keyword or placement that drove the click through to the revenue it generated.

Google Ads reports ROAS from its own conversion pixel, but that number never ties to the revenue your finance team recognizes. When your Google Ads campaigns, keywords, and conversion actions feed one governed definition alongside billing data, ROAS is a real number tied to real revenue — and you know which campaigns, ad groups, and keywords actually pay back.

Who it’s forHeads of marketing and growth leaders at Google Ads-heavy companies who need to justify and optimize paid search and display spend.

CadenceRefreshed daily; reviewed at budget planning and in the monthly marketing-finance review.

Built fromGoogle Ads, Quickbooks, Stripe

§ How it works

Describe your dashboard. Fi builds it.

Fi is the AI agent inside Definite. Tell it what you’re trying to understand, and it connects your sources, defines the metrics, and builds the dashboard. One conversation, not a project.

You
Show me return on our Google Ads spend — ROAS by campaign, attributed revenue, CAC, and LTV:CAC, with every number traced from keyword spend to recognized revenue.
✦ Fi
Here's your google ads roi dashboard, on your Google Ads, Quickbooks and Stripe data.
Here’s what’s in it

The top row leads with the 4 numbers that matter most: ROAS, Attributed revenue, CAC, LTV : CAC. Each shows a delta versus the prior period so you can see direction at a glance. Below that, 2 trend charts (ROAS over time, CAC trend) show how the headline numbers have moved over time. A breakdown (Attributed revenue by channel) splits the metric by dimension so you can see what's driving the total. A detail table (ROI efficiency) rounds it out with the secondary metrics and their deltas. Every number is computed from the exact formulas shown in the metric table below. Composites are derived from their components, not pasted in, so the KPI tiles, breakdowns, and totals all reconcile to each other.

Illustrative data

ROAS

4.1×▲ 44.3%
Data ▾
PeriodROAS
Jan2.7×
Feb2.7×
Mar2.7×
Apr3.0×
May2.9×
Jun2.4×
Jul2.4×
Aug4.0×
Sep2.7×
Oct3.7×
Nov2.8×
Dec4.1×

Attributed revenue

$1.06M▲ 31.2%
Data ▾
PeriodAttributed Revenue
Jan$456K
Feb$507K
Mar$524K
Apr$576K
May$665K
Jun$500K
Jul$506K
Aug$749K
Sep$600K
Oct$872K
Nov$805K
Dec$1.06M

CAC

$2K▲ 12.0%
Data ▾
PeriodCAC
Jan$2K
Feb$2K
Mar$2K
Apr$3K
May$2K
Jun$2K
Jul$3K
Aug$2K
Sep$2K
Oct$2K
Nov$2K
Dec$2K

LTV : CAC

10.5×▼ 30.4%
Data ▾
PeriodLTV : CAC
Jan12.5×
Feb8.4×
Mar9.5×
Apr7.8×
May8.8×
Jun10.6×
Jul7.3×
Aug11.1×
Sep10.2×
Oct10.8×
Nov15.2×
Dec10.5×

ROAS over time

2 2.5 3 3.5 4 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Data ▾
PeriodROAS
Jan2.7×
Feb2.7×
Mar2.7×
Apr3.0×
May2.9×
Jun2.4×
Jul2.4×
Aug4.0×
Sep2.7×
Oct3.7×
Nov2.8×
Dec4.1×

Attributed revenue by channel

Paid Search Paid Social Organic Email Referral 0 50,000 100,000 150,000 200,000
Data ▾
ChannelAttributed Revenue
Paid Search$248K
Paid Social$150K
Organic$250K
Email$177K
Referral$230K

CAC trend

1,800 2,000 2,200 2,400 2,600 2,800 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Data ▾
PeriodCAC
Jan$2K
Feb$2K
Mar$2K
Apr$3K
May$2K
Jun$2K
Jul$3K
Aug$2K
Sep$2K
Oct$2K
Nov$2K
Dec$2K

ROI efficiency

Ad Spend$260K▼ 9.1%
Cost per Conversion$39▼ 8.1%
LTV$25K▼ 22.1%
✦ Fi
Anything else I can do for you?
You
Which Google Ads campaign has the best ROAS, and which is below breakeven?Show me how CAC from Google Ads has trended relative to LTV over the last year.Break ROAS out by ad group instead of campaign.What would blended ROI look like if I cut the lowest-returning Google Ads campaign?Trace this quarter's attributed revenue back to the Google Ads keywords that drove it.Is branded search inflating my overall Google Ads ROAS?Break ROAS by Google Ads campaign and flag any campaign below 1x.Show cost per conversion by keyword alongside attributed revenue.Compare branded versus non-branded Google Ads ROAS side by side.
  • Which Google Ads campaign has the best ROAS, and which is below breakeven?
  • Show me how CAC from Google Ads has trended relative to LTV over the last year.
  • Break ROAS out by ad group instead of campaign.
  • What would blended ROI look like if I cut the lowest-returning Google Ads campaign?
  • Trace this quarter's attributed revenue back to the Google Ads keywords that drove it.
  • Is branded search inflating my overall Google Ads ROAS?
  • Break ROAS by Google Ads campaign and flag any campaign below 1x.
  • Show cost per conversion by keyword alongside attributed revenue.
  • Compare branded versus non-branded Google Ads ROAS side by side.
§ Why the numbers tie out

Every metric traces back to your systems

This is the part a BI tool can’t fake. Each metric is defined once, in your warehouse, from a specific object in a specific source. Change the definition in one place and every tile, report, and answer moves with it. So the number on the screen is the number in the source.

CampaignROASAttributed RevenueCACLTV : CACAd SpendCost per Conversion
Ad GroupROASAd SpendCost per Conversion
Ad (Creative)ROASAd SpendCost per Conversion
AccountCACLTV : CACLTV
SubscriptionROASAttributed RevenueLTV : CACLTV
CustomerCACLTV : CACLTV
Balance Transaction (Ledger)LTV : CACLTV
InvoiceLTV : CACLTV
PaymentLTV : CACLTV
EventCost per Conversion
General LedgerCACLTV : CACLTV
Income Statement (Profit & Loss)LTV : CACLTV
MetricWhat it measuresHow it's calculatedSources
ROASRevenue attributed back to ad spend per dollar spent, the headline efficiency number for paid.Attributed Revenue ÷ Ad SpendGoogle Ads, Stripe
CACWhat it costs in sales and marketing to win one new customer.S&M Spend ÷ New CustomersGoogle Ads, Quickbooks, Stripe
LTV : CACThe payback test on growth spend. Lifetime value divided by acquisition cost.LTV ÷ CACStripe, Google Ads, Quickbooks
Cost per ConversionWhat you pay, on average, for a single conversion, the unit cost of demand.Ad Spend ÷ ConversionsGoogle Ads, Stripe
LTVThe gross-margin revenue an average customer is worth over their lifetime, before you spend to acquire the next one.(ARPA × Gross Margin) ÷ Logo ChurnStripe, Google Ads, Quickbooks
§ Then do something about it

Have our agent watch for you

A google ads roi dashboard tells you what happened, and Fi tells you why. The last step is not having to remember to check. Point Definite at the one number you can’t afford to miss, and it watches that number for you off the same definitions as your dashboard. When it moves, you hear about it before the next review instead of during it. One metric, one action, always reversible.

Autonomous agent · watch churn
Watch
A metric you choose
net revenue churn
Judge
One condition
> 5% week-over-week
Act
One action
alert #revenue + open doc
◄──── then waits · cooldown 24h before it can act again ────
Scoped to a single metric and a single action. You arm it; you can disarm it anytime.
§ The data that powers it

Built from whatever you already run on

Connect the systems you already use. Any source of these types works, and you don’t move data into a warehouse, because Definite is the warehouse.

No warehouse to stand up or connect. See how the platform models your data →

§ Get started

Build your google ads roi dashboard

From signup to a working dashboard in one sitting. No data team required.

01

Sign up

Free to start. No credit card, no infrastructure to set up.

Create your account
02

Connect your sources

Stripe, your CRM, accounting. Definite syncs and models them automatically.

03

Decide your metrics

Pick the numbers that matter or let Fi propose them from your data. Every metric gets one definition, governed in one place.

04

Ask Fi to build it

Describe what you need in plain language. Fi builds the dashboard, and you refine by asking follow-ups.

§ FAQ

Common questions

Google Ads reports conversions from its own pixel with its own attribution window and model. Definite models ROAS from the raw Google Ads spend objects tied through your CRM to recognized revenue in Stripe, so the return you report is tied to real money, not a platform-attributed estimate.
Google Ads for campaign, ad group, keyword, and conversion action spend. Stripe for recognized revenue. QuickBooks is optional for cost reconciliation. Definite syncs and models all three so ROAS traces from click to revenue.
It is a live ECharts dashboard running on a deterministic synthetic dataset, labeled illustrative. ROAS is computed from attributed revenue over Google Ads spend, CAC from total spend over new customers, each by the formula in the metric table. Connect your Google Ads account and Fi builds the same view from your data.
Type a prompt like the one above. Fi connects your Google Ads account and billing source, models the ROI metrics from your campaigns and conversions, and you refine by asking follow-ups. The first version traces every dollar of Google Ads spend to revenue without a spreadsheet.
Yes. Google Ads keywords and search terms are synced as distinct objects. Definite can split ROAS by branded versus non-branded queries so you see whether your paid return comes from brand equity or net-new demand.

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