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Real ROAS Dashboard: See What Your Ads Actually Earn
A revenue-first ROAS dashboard that ties purchases, renewals, and refunds back to the campaigns and creative that drove them.
· Grometrics Team
The short version
Your ads platform shows you a ROAS number. That number is lying to you. Ad platforms claim conversions they didn't drive so you keep spending. They count clicks that never became customers, and they attribute purchases made by people who already knew about you through another channel. When you spend $5,000 on Meta Ads and the dashboard shows 4x ROAS, you feel good — until you check your payment provider and realize half those "conversions" never actually paid, or were refunded within seven days. That's why Grometrics built a real ROAS dashboard. Instead of relying on ad platform conversion data, we connect directly to your payment provider — Stripe, RevenueCat, LemonSqueezy, Gumroad, Paddle, or Teachable — and calculate return on ad spend from actual settled revenue, minus refunds, tied back to the specific campaign, ad set, and creative that drove each customer. This isn't vanity ROAS. This is the number you use to decide whether to scale, kill, or rework every paid acquisition campaign you run.
- Real ROAS pulls from payment provider revenue, not ad platform conversion pixels
- Refunds subtract from attributed revenue so you see net return, not gross volume
- Campaign-level ROAS shows which ads drive customers, not just clicks