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Setting Up Marketing Pixels (Meta & Google)

How to set up your marketing pixels within Sonar

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Written by Hannah Levick
Updated over 3 weeks ago

This article outlines how to set up your marketing pixels for Meta + Google and which events will be passed through


What is a marketing pixel?

A marketing pixel is a small piece of code embedded on a website that tracks user behavior and activities. Specifically, Facebook and Meta pixels collect data on user interactions, such as page views and conversions, to provide valuable insights for targeted advertising. Businesses use marketing pixels to optimize ad performance, improve audience targeting, and measure the effectiveness of their marketing campaigns.


Events that will be triggered

The following events will pass through to either Meta or Google

(expand to see a screenshot & how the event is triggered)

Viewed Home

Triggered: When a borrower lands on your main landing page

Viewed Rate Finder

Triggered: when a user lands on the rate finder page

Search Rates

Triggered: When a user clicks "Search" on the rate finder page

Get Started

Triggered: When a borrower starts an application by clicking any of the transaction types

Onboarding.email Submit

Triggered: When borrower enters their email and progresses to the next step

Onboarding.Complete

Trigger: When a borrower completes the initial set of questions

Pricing.SubmitApplication Workflow Complete

Trigger: When a borrower submits an application


Google Tag

You will add the Google "Measurement ID" to your Sonar integrations

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How to set up and/or retrieve your Measurement ID

  1. Go to analytics.google.com and sign in with a Google account

  2. Click `Create Account`

  3. Follow the prompts until the end where you will click `Next`to complete set up

    1. Choose WEB

    2. Fill out your website URL

  4. Finally, copy the Measurement ID

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Meta

The below steps outline how to create a Meta Pixel ID, and input the ID into Sonar.

How to set up your Meta Pixel ID

  1. Sign in to your Facebook business account

  2. Select All Tools then `Event Manager`

  3. From Events Manager, Select ‘Connect Data Sources’

    1. Select `Web`

    2. "Connect Manually"> `Meta Pixel Only`

    3. Select `See Instructions`

    4. Continue clicking through the steps within `Set up new pixel` until you've reached the end

  4. From the "Pixel Overview" navigate to the `Settings` tab, from here you will want to copy the `Dataset ID`. This ID is what you will input into Sonar

Connect to your Sonar Account

  1. Copy the Dataset ID and paste it into your integration modal within Sonar

    1. Click "Test" --> Save

Confirming your events

Once your connection is set up & activated, you should see your events start to flow into your dashboard. In your dashboard, you will see a red triangle. Please approve these custom events.

  1. Click on the red triangle in the ‘Status’ column and you will see a popup appear. Click `Review`

  2. Click `I Acknowledge`

  3. Finally, select `Confirm the custom event`

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