NOTE: This setup does come with a cost due to the fact you're using an AWS server to send CAPI events. So you will get a bill from AWS every month after setting it up - many people are seeing $70+ USD per month bills from AWS. It's a very easy, effective CAPI setup, but just a heads-up re. cost :)
This is quite expensive! I don't understand why you would recommend such an expensive solution. My last bill was $100. In the video you said something about $7 a month, if I remember correctly.
so just to make sure i understand this correctly, it's totaly normal to be get billed over 70$ for this solution ? it's not a set up mistake. ? it's much more than i imagined, in the video you say ther is tiny monthly cost so i hoped it was less. did it change recently ?
@@pierredecayron1304 I just revisited this video as ive been billed $350 for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud after setting this up. Not Andrews fault as his video was great, but thats an unexpectedly high bill. If anyone has a solution i'd love to hear
The reason is that you are using a t3.large instance. That is a 8 GB RAM, 2 vCPUs instance and a total overkill. It costs 60$ per month. You could go for a t3a.nano instance instead. That is only 3.38$ per month, or use a free tier instance (t2.micro) for free for 12 months.
Update: Unfortunately this does not work currently. The smallest instance that can be used as of now (February 2023) is a M5.large instance. This is around 80$ per month.
This is the guy I would buy a course from. Short video, straight to the point and doesn't leave you more confused than you were before watching the video. Thanks for sharing Andrew 👍🏻
I cannot tell you how long I struggled with getting this done and eventually started procrastinating on doing it. I watched your video and it's DONE I can't tell you how good it feels thank you!!!
I normally hate, despise, and loathe learning from videos. They're usually too slow and full of gibberish. You are perfect. No nonsense, clear, and to the point. You left no stone unturned and the editing was exceptional. I am now huge fan and will be following.
Good day, brother. I want to express my gratitude for creating this video. Your video has now spared me from spending a lot of time learning how to build an app using Xcode, Github, and CocoaPods. My entire week was a complete waste. lots of love from India. Keep up the good work, and more blessings will come your way.
2:41 Enter a domain and sub-domain part is missing when tried to implement the same. And, now inside the console it's asking to optimize the DNS setting and unable to complete the step at it is throwing error every time!!
Hello Andrew, I have been following your tutorial but I am having an issue in the step at 06:30. When I click the link inside my AWS account, it shows "404 Not Found" error. My DNS has been successfully configurated. What could be happening?
Hey Andrew! Thank you for another great video. I set this up last week on two of my ad accounts and it's saying I'm about to reach my 30GB limit and charge me $50 this month. It's also forecasted to charge $90 next month. That doesn't make much sense to me since I don't understand how it could reach 30GB off of two accounts with only lead tracking. Did set it up wrong? Should I turn off microdata?
@@teo4596 it's also costing me way more then just a couple bucks and I barely get traffic on my website. Just a heads up to everyone that believes what he says.
Hey @teo! Lots of people are experiencing this unfortunately. Try logging into the CAPI gateway portal and turning off the pageview event. That will dramatically reduce the number of events going back to FB and should help with costs
Hello Andrew! I'm afraid I might be doing something wrong. I keep getting this "404 Not Found" error msg every time I click on the output link (Min 6:30). I've already whitelisted the domain and disabled ad blockers yet the problem remains. The DNS records propagated correctly and it seems to be acknowledged by Facebook as well. I did get the green dot for successful DNS records so, I'm stuck. What do you think might be causing this? Thanks a lot! =)
Once you have the conversions API set up, how do you send that data back to your CRM so that you can track which people interacted with an ad and what they did next (whether they became a customer, how much they spent, etc)?
Hi, thanks for the tutorial. Very helpful. For me, the DNS setup seemed to be detected automatically after clicking "next". I also don't have "A RECORD" but "Subdomain" above it in Facebook Messenger. Is it possible that this was detected automatically?
Hey Andrew, I purchased the AWS Free plan for 12 mos. I did the conversion api setup and everything is running perfectly, but for some reason, I'm getting charged over $100 a month. It is saying because I am using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud running Linux/UNIX, which is an extra service. Now, this was created because of the conversion api gateway. Is there a way to lower the monthly charge.
what service do i need to click to set it up. When i open aws it does not open to the same page as yours unfortuantely. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
After the DNS step, when I click on the ConversionsApiGatewayInstanceURL I get a 404. I've tried starting from scratch and changing region but the same thing happens. Any idea what's causing this?
@@MentoriumTV I ended up "fixing" the issue by using another one of my sites (since i'm using the same pixel for multiple websites). So it's not really a fix since the first website I used still returns a 404. But it does mean the error is on amazon fault at least not in my case.
Awesome! Just have one question; The link which leads to the Conversion API Gateway ist not working (6:31) So I visited the Conversion API Gateway via events manager. The Gateway says "The percentage of processed events successfully published to the Conversions API, 100%." (7:58 first field of 3). But there are no activities at the from "Conversion API" at "search event". So should it work then or what do you think? Or where else in the events manager can I see that the conversion API is working? Thanks Ahead!
My clients ads have been running pretty poorly for the last 6 months (or since the iOS update) and I just realized we never set this up when we switched to WordPress. Could that be a reason why they weren't optimized? Still a little lost on this topic.
Hey Andrew, I followed all the steps and everything worked perfectly. However, only pageviews are being tracked by the server. I already had other events set up with my pixel such as purchase and add to cart but those aren't being tracked. Am I supposed to do something else to track these events?
This happened to me too... what did you do to fix it? I feel like I should just undo all of this together... it seems like it only messed up my pixel that was perfectly fine
@@PfauFitness My regular pixel worked fine until I did this. I am not sure to delete it or how to fix it... I contacted Facebook Support I will see what they say. What web builder do you use?
Thanks for the video. But I got this msg ROLLBACK_COMPLETE on the stack info. Also, there was no information in the output section. It was weird. Besides, my DNS was already green when I looked at the events manager. Is it because I have WordPress. I don't know what I did, please help 😕
Please help - if I click on the "ConversionsApiGatewayInstanceURL link it takes me to a 404 error page. It's not showing the "Conversions API Gateway is provisioning" screen. In the Events Manager it looks like the DNS is matched and says that it's configured. I can't seem to get to a point where it says "open console" . So I'm not sure what to do next. TIA!
Question: On mine it is showing the Page View events as well as the Lead Event. Do I need to switch of the Page View events and only be tracking the Lead/Conversion events with this? @AndrewHubbard1
Hi Andrew, thanks you so much for the good video. But i have a problem. When i click the URL in ConversionsApiGatewayInstanceURL the provisioning starts but don't finish, it's stop at Installing the Conversions API Gateway... Please help me...
Hey @Andrew , when you click begin deployment and want to enter admin domain , what do you mean by admin, should we enter our CMS login URL ? And credentials
Thank you very much for the video. It worked great for 3 months, but now the let's encrypt SSL certificate has expired. It did not renew automatically. What should I do?
Hello! Could you please help me? After I choose the hosting region, I receive an error: ''E-mail missing for business'''? What is this? What can I do? Thank you!
Hi Andrew. Thanks for the video tutorial, I know it's 2023, but this video still provides great help! I have a question for you. When I open the gateway, no subdomain appears. Do I need to add it manually? How do I do it? Thank you so much!!!!! Looking forward to your reply!
The only difference I noted in the process was when specifying instance type where you selected t3.large, I only had an m5.large option available (and m5.xlarge, m5.2xlarge). Could that be where my error happened? Please let me know. Thanks!
Great, but how to tell the conversion api to send leads event when the user has reached the thank you page? Or how to tell the API to send the initial checkout when the user is in the form page?
It will match the pixel events you have set up on those pages. So if you have a Lead event on a page set up via the pixel, this setup will also automatically send a Lead event via the conversions API
This is Facebook's easy setup method - so it's easy to do but less customisable for power users. If you want full customisation, better to use GTM which is more difficult to set up but really flexible.
Hi Andrew, after setting up the conversion api gateway via AWS , not all events on my Facebook event manager showed up on the CAPI gateway dashboard so some events are still tracked by the browser only and not the server how can I solve this ?
Thanks for this video. How do you set up various events to be tracked like Lead, Complete Registration or Purchase? Is it just via the normal Pixel method and now Conversions API Gateway is pinged in addition? If I'm using a third-party form to collect leads/complete registrations, does this pass back enough data to Facebook to be useful for conversion events? Just wanted to see how this worked before pivoting tracking methods.
It is, but just be aware the costs might stack up. Lots of people are seeing aws bills of $50-$70 usd per month. Just want to make sure you don’t get a shock!
Thank you! Does this method work if Pixel was installed using Google tag manager? And does it automatically sent event parameters like value and currency)
Question. Is there a reason why a conversation api portal won't work? I clicked on my portal link and it keeps loading and got an error. I checked on my slack details and facebook gateway connection, everything looks good.
Not sure if this has been answered before, but has anyone noticed upon completion the Event Match Quality has dropped? Mine is sitting around 4.3/10. There seem to be no First Name, Last Name, E-mail, and Phone Number details. Is there any way to get this information passed through without touching the code?
I am struggling. After clicking "Begin deployment" and signing in to aws, error code 400 came up with "The page you tried was not found." What could be the problem?
Thanks for this video, I followed all the steps and everything works correctly. I just have one question, before using amazon for facebook API I used the official facebook plugin on wordpress. Do I have to do anything in particular? There are no problems to have two types of conversion API? Thanks for your answer.
Thank you very much for the answers. Last question: do i have to set up events through the pixel once again, after setting up the conversion API? Because i think, that, if i firstly set up the pixel events and after that set up the conversion API, the conversion API will not detect them correctly and the server events will not trigger or i'm wrong? In other words, what do to first: pixel events set up and after that conversion API set up or first conversion API set up aht after that Pixel events?
I am getting a 404 Not Found Error when I visit the ConversionsApiGatewayInstanceURL. I have tried twice and it has happened both times. The A Record has propagated for the sub-domain. Help!
You are awesome, love you dude. But I have a question, while accessing [ connect your conversion API gateway in event ] what if our business doesn't have any subdomain. Actually, this is the only doubt I'm stuck with.
Hi Andrew. Great video.Thanks. My FBCAPI instalation failed and Im not sure why. It is saying " control system takes too long to be ready" Is this because when creating the DNS record I was only given the option of 5 minutes, no lower. I saw yours said 1 minute. Any tips? Thanks again
How necessary is it that? I guess it's very necessary, recently FB can't get the data of the purchases properly. If I do this will the problem be solved?
Are you sure that the basic support still works? I think they make you go to the $100 business plan now. I don't see the correct instance types now. Please lmk if you have any input here!
Hi Andrew, Thank you for the great video! I wanted to start fresh and I went ahead and deleted my A record DNS and my AWS Stack. However, when I went to start fresh, I was unable to since it says that the Conversion API Gateway is connected. How can I proceed?
My experience with the plugin hasn't been great. Unreliable and didn't handle deduplication well. This has been more robust for me. I'm sure they're constantly improving the plugin though, so if you prefer to go down that route then there's no reason not to try it for yourself and see if it works for you.
I like your content. As a beginner in FB ads this is really pure gold :) Sometimes overwhelming but so valuable. Thank you. Another question. Your videos are presented so good. Are you cutting your videos on your self or do you have someone who is doing that? It would also be interesting to have such a skill.
@@AndrewHubbard1 thank you! I Judy filled out the form on your website as well. Interested in your services for dialing in our ads using our video content.
Hi there! Loved your video! However AWS is charging me a lot more than I thought it would...have I done something wrong? Our bill is around AUD$100 for only 2 weeks
Hey Pip! That does sound expensive compared to the bills im seeing but it depends on how much traffic you get, so it’s hard to say whether it’s more than it should be. What platforms do you use for website and email list (Wordpress, mailchimp etc.)? There might be an alternate method I can point you towards that’s free
@@pipward Same thing. Just got charged $40 USD for 2 weeks. Only 3.7k PageView events recorded. This seems like a very expensive way to do CAPI. I'll be looking into something else.
Hey Andrew thank you for this great video. I'm all setup for a month but I've been charged $80usd for Feb for Elastic Compute Cloud! Why am I being charged this. From your video it didn't explain there would be this charge? Thank you in advance :)
Hi, I integrated the API through AWS, all events but the page view event are being sent through the browser, and not the server. The AWS console also only detects page view events. Do I need to add new events as a "standard event" via the pixel, to make them work?
@@AndrewHubbard1 Ok Thanks! And can this be done by using the event tool? Or does it need to be manually coded. Really appreciate you helping an API beginner!
@@AndrewHubbard1 I'm new to facebook ads but i've been running an ad for a song and despite getting 23 000 impressions and 2000 link clicks i see no sign of new listeners from the ads. I want to set it up so i can see how many actually convert out of those who click the link but don't know how to. with convert i mean how many of those that click the link also go click another link that leads them to the song on different platforms
OMG Great video - so helpful. A question, if I have 4 products (ebook, mini course, course,, coaching) how would you recommend i set up purchase events to reflect the different value of each one? Can I just set up as 4 separate custom evetns/conversions? Or set up purchase with dynamic value?
Hi Andrew great video - My web provider/Hosting site says that if they add the new IP address to my DNS setting it will point to that and no longer to my website. Am I missing something?
NOTE: This setup does come with a cost due to the fact you're using an AWS server to send CAPI events. So you will get a bill from AWS every month after setting it up - many people are seeing $70+ USD per month bills from AWS. It's a very easy, effective CAPI setup, but just a heads-up re. cost :)
This is quite expensive! I don't understand why you would recommend such an expensive solution. My last bill was $100. In the video you said something about $7 a month, if I remember correctly.
so just to make sure i understand this correctly, it's totaly normal to be get billed over 70$ for this solution ? it's not a set up mistake. ?
it's much more than i imagined, in the video you say ther is tiny monthly cost so i hoped it was less. did it change recently ?
@@pierredecayron1304 I just revisited this video as ive been billed $350 for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud after setting this up. Not Andrews fault as his video was great, but thats an unexpectedly high bill. If anyone has a solution i'd love to hear
The reason is that you are using a t3.large instance. That is a 8 GB RAM, 2 vCPUs instance and a total overkill. It costs 60$ per month. You could go for a t3a.nano instance instead. That is only 3.38$ per month, or use a free tier instance (t2.micro) for free for 12 months.
Update: Unfortunately this does not work currently. The smallest instance that can be used as of now (February 2023) is a M5.large instance. This is around 80$ per month.
This is the guy I would buy a course from. Short video, straight to the point and doesn't leave you more confused than you were before watching the video. Thanks for sharing Andrew 👍🏻
Cheers Nergis! Means a lot to hear that 🙏
agree. gold
I cannot tell you how long I struggled with getting this done and eventually started procrastinating on doing it. I watched your video and it's DONE I can't tell you how good it feels thank you!!!
That’s great to hear!
I normally hate, despise, and loathe learning from videos. They're usually too slow and full of gibberish. You are perfect. No nonsense, clear, and to the point. You left no stone unturned and the editing was exceptional. I am now huge fan and will be following.
Best video I've watched and I've watched plenty.
Worked perfectly thanks. Why does the Australian accent feel like the most reliable and trustworthy of all English accents?? 🤣
Awesome! 😂
You deserve Australian of the year award for this video Andrew! many thanks! Have subscribed. Cheers.
Good day, brother. I want to express my gratitude for creating this video. Your video has now spared me from spending a lot of time learning how to build an app using Xcode, Github, and CocoaPods. My entire week was a complete waste. lots of love from India.
Keep up the good work, and more blessings will come your way.
Cheers mate. Just be aware that you'll get an AWS bill for this. Might be $50/USD per month or more from what I've been seeing and hearing from others
This seems much easier than integration via google tag manager! Thanks!
This helped a lot and it seems to be working. Thanks. Now to see if this makes Facebooks terrible conversion results this year any better.
Glad it helped! Just keep an eye on that Amazon bill. A few people have been surprised by it lately.
@@AndrewHubbard1 Thanks I'll watch . I didn't think this would be an extensive service.
Thank you! Do you have a a video that shows setting up CAPI via Google Cloud Platform? Can it be done without knowing how to code?
Thank u so much!!! It done. And all blessings to you!
Glad it helped! Just keep an eye on that AWS bill. Had a few people be surprised by it recently
2:41 Enter a domain and sub-domain part is missing when tried to implement the same. And, now inside the console it's asking to optimize the DNS setting and unable to complete the step at it is throwing error every time!!
Hello Andrew, I have been following your tutorial but I am having an issue in the step at 06:30. When I click the link inside my AWS account, it shows "404 Not Found" error. My DNS has been successfully configurated. What could be happening?
This video made my life 10x easier. Thank you
Hey Andrew! Thank you for another great video. I set this up last week on two of my ad accounts and it's saying I'm about to reach my 30GB limit and charge me $50 this month. It's also forecasted to charge $90 next month. That doesn't make much sense to me since I don't understand how it could reach 30GB off of two accounts with only lead tracking. Did set it up wrong? Should I turn off microdata?
Update: Now charging me $131 this month for 3 connected ad accounts. Seems like a lot more than what you had said it should be.
@@teo4596 it's also costing me way more then just a couple bucks and I barely get traffic on my website. Just a heads up to everyone that believes what he says.
Hey @teo! Lots of people are experiencing this unfortunately. Try logging into the CAPI gateway portal and turning off the pageview event. That will dramatically reduce the number of events going back to FB and should help with costs
@@rhiabrutger you know I’m not the one charging the fees right? 😒
@@AndrewHubbard1 We know! I appreciate everything you do and the value you bring. Don't feel attacked!
bro video was great - i never comment but you crushed it
Thanks mate!
Extremely helpful, thank you so much. Thought I was going to have to manually implement some crazy stuff since my site isn't on Shopify. This worked!
what is the cost assosiated to AWS CAPI service?
What an amazing video!! Staight to the point!! Thank you Andrew! Greetings from Greece!
Thanks Apostolois!!
Great tutorial, thanks mate!
Glad you liked it!
On Facebook Events Manager, it forces you to pick a subdomain and no longer allows us to choose from our main domain. What do we do?
Hello Andrew! I'm afraid I might be doing something wrong. I keep getting this "404 Not Found" error msg every time I click on the output link (Min 6:30). I've already whitelisted the domain and disabled ad blockers yet the problem remains. The DNS records propagated correctly and it seems to be acknowledged by Facebook as well. I did get the green dot for successful DNS records so, I'm stuck. What do you think might be causing this? Thanks a lot! =)
Did you ever fix this issue? I’m having the same problem… any discovered tips/tricks for this?
Hi, i have a wired question, if i have setup conversion API with AWS, can i still call the events from GTM server side container?
Once you have the conversions API set up, how do you send that data back to your CRM so that you can track which people interacted with an ad and what they did next (whether they became a customer, how much they spent, etc)?
Hi, thanks for the video. What is browser pixel is blocked due to AdBlocker. Does this also block CAPIG server postback?
Not sure about that one sorry. You can test that using test events though
Hi,
thanks for the tutorial. Very helpful. For me, the DNS setup seemed to be detected automatically after clicking "next". I also don't have "A RECORD" but "Subdomain" above it in Facebook Messenger. Is it possible that this was detected automatically?
Same for me. It was detected automatically...
Hey Andrew, I purchased the AWS Free plan for 12 mos. I did the conversion api setup and everything is running perfectly, but for some reason, I'm getting charged over $100 a month. It is saying because I am using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud running Linux/UNIX, which is an extra service. Now, this was created because of the conversion api gateway. Is there a way to lower the monthly charge.
I have Facebook pixel set up already is it mandatory I also set up the conversion api before I can use my ad manager in running conversion ad
Amazing video! Thank you for the short and clear information
what service do i need to click to set it up. When i open aws it does not open to the same page as yours unfortuantely. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
After the DNS step, when I click on the ConversionsApiGatewayInstanceURL I get a 404. I've tried starting from scratch and changing region but the same thing happens. Any idea what's causing this?
I have the same issue :(
@@MentoriumTV I ended up "fixing" the issue by using another one of my sites (since i'm using the same pixel for multiple websites). So it's not really a fix since the first website I used still returns a 404. But it does mean the error is on amazon fault at least not in my case.
Awesome! Just have one question; The link which leads to the Conversion API Gateway ist not working (6:31) So I visited the Conversion API Gateway via events manager. The Gateway says "The percentage of processed events successfully published to the Conversions API, 100%." (7:58 first field of 3). But there are no activities at the from "Conversion API" at "search event".
So should it work then or what do you think? Or where else in the events manager can I see that the conversion API is working?
Thanks Ahead!
What to do when you click ConversionsApiGatewayInstanceURL link (shown at 6:30) and comes up as an error?
the part of conversions API Gateway (6:50) stuck for hours. what I can do?
My clients ads have been running pretty poorly for the last 6 months (or since the iOS update) and I just realized we never set this up when we switched to WordPress. Could that be a reason why they weren't optimized? Still a little lost on this topic.
M seeing overcount on my facebook business manager, can that be controlled via this?
Hey Andrew,
I followed all the steps and everything worked perfectly. However, only pageviews are being tracked by the server. I already had other events set up with my pixel such as purchase and add to cart but those aren't being tracked. Am I supposed to do something else to track these events?
This happened to me too... what did you do to fix it? I feel like I should just undo all of this together... it seems like it only messed up my pixel that was perfectly fine
@@AlisonBowles I didn't fix it. It's still only tracking page views which I figure is better than nothing but I'd like to figure out a solution.
@@PfauFitness My regular pixel worked fine until I did this. I am not sure to delete it or how to fix it... I contacted Facebook Support I will see what they say. What web builder do you use?
@@AlisonBowles Did you ever solve this issue?
@@PfauFitness nope sadly. I just deleted it.
Thanks for the video. But I got this msg ROLLBACK_COMPLETE on the stack info. Also, there was no information in the output section. It was weird. Besides, my DNS was already green when I looked at the events manager. Is it because I have WordPress. I don't know what I did, please help 😕
I can not update DNS as my Domain Provider and Hosting provider are different?
What should I do?
Thank you so much for the instructions! Much appreciated!
subbed, awesome content, straight to the point, thank you Andrew.
Please help - if I click on the "ConversionsApiGatewayInstanceURL link it takes me to a 404 error page. It's not showing the "Conversions API Gateway is provisioning" screen. In the Events Manager it looks like the DNS is matched and says that it's configured. I can't seem to get to a point where it says "open console" . So I'm not sure what to do next. TIA!
Update: I was able to go to the Events Manager/Settings/Conversions API and it had a "Launch" button there that has taken me to the Gateway screen.
Question: On mine it is showing the Page View events as well as the Lead Event. Do I need to switch of the Page View events and only be tracking the Lead/Conversion events with this? @AndrewHubbard1
Is there a way to change User & Password for the Cloudfront afterwards?
Hi Andrew, thanks you so much for the good video. But i have a problem. When i click the URL in ConversionsApiGatewayInstanceURL the provisioning starts but don't finish, it's stop at Installing the Conversions API Gateway... Please help me...
Hey @Andrew , when you click begin deployment and want to enter admin domain , what do you mean by admin, should we enter our CMS login URL ? And credentials
Thank you very much for the video. It worked great for 3 months, but now the let's encrypt SSL certificate has expired. It did not renew automatically. What should I do?
Hello! Could you please help me? After I choose the hosting region, I receive an error: ''E-mail missing for business'''? What is this? What can I do? Thank you!
Hi Andrew. Thanks for the video tutorial, I know it's 2023, but this video still provides great help!
I have a question for you. When I open the gateway, no subdomain appears.
Do I need to add it manually? How do I do it? Thank you so much!!!!! Looking forward to your reply!
Hey mate thanks for the tutorial, would like to clarify if this would work if my domain is built with Squarespace?
Hey Andrew! How do I increase my event match quality? ❓
When I click on the link at 6:31:00, I get a "404 Not Found" error message and nothing installs. Need some help. Thank you!
The only difference I noted in the process was when specifying instance type where you selected t3.large, I only had an m5.large option available (and m5.xlarge, m5.2xlarge). Could that be where my error happened? Please let me know. Thanks!
Andrew I have a question! Will this take care of the deduplication error?
It will! :)
Great, but how to tell the conversion api to send leads event when the user has reached the thank you page? Or how to tell the API to send the initial checkout when the user is in the form page?
+1 - looking for ways to specify event types and pass form data back
It will match the pixel events you have set up on those pages. So if you have a Lead event on a page set up via the pixel, this setup will also automatically send a Lead event via the conversions API
This is Facebook's easy setup method - so it's easy to do but less customisable for power users. If you want full customisation, better to use GTM which is more difficult to set up but really flexible.
Awesome Video, ty. Quick question: can this be set up with the HubSpot CRM so we can feed back into fb the stage each lead/prospect is at in the CRM?
Hello does any face this problem you increase cpu pls and what is the solution
Do I need to to this if I am hosted on Shopify?
Nope. Just use their integration
Hi Andrew,
after setting up the conversion api gateway via AWS , not all events on my Facebook event manager showed up on the CAPI gateway dashboard
so some events are still tracked by the browser only and not the server
how can I solve this ?
I'm getting charged $72/month for sever up time or something like that (from Amazon). Did I do something wrong?
Same here...
I get a error that says: Business admin access required for this action. when I want to select a hosting region (frankfurt europe)
Thanks for this video.
How do you set up various events to be tracked like Lead, Complete Registration or Purchase? Is it just via the normal Pixel method and now Conversions API Gateway is pinged in addition? If I'm using a third-party form to collect leads/complete registrations, does this pass back enough data to Facebook to be useful for conversion events?
Just wanted to see how this worked before pivoting tracking methods.
Where can i find the events that were sent from pabbly or zapier in events manager?
Amazing. Thanks. Is this still the best and the easiest approach in 2022?
It is, but just be aware the costs might stack up. Lots of people are seeing aws bills of $50-$70 usd per month. Just want to make sure you don’t get a shock!
Do we need Conversions API and Pixel be implemented in the same account? If yes is it possible to deduplicate using this method?
Thank you! Does this method work if Pixel was installed using Google tag manager? And does it automatically sent event parameters like value and currency)
And one more) Can i integrate offline conversions using CAPIG
You are great bro!. Love from India 🥰🥰
Hi Andrew, question. If entering multiple domains for CAPI, do you need to have verified all those domains for CAPI to work?
Question. Is there a reason why a conversation api portal won't work? I clicked on my portal link and it keeps loading and got an error.
I checked on my slack details and facebook gateway connection, everything looks good.
Danke!
Is there a way to add another user to the Conversion API gateway hosted on AWS ?
Can we setup multiple pixel under 1 domain using this method?
Not sure if this has been answered before, but has anyone noticed upon completion the Event Match Quality has dropped? Mine is sitting around 4.3/10. There seem to be no First Name, Last Name, E-mail, and Phone Number details. Is there any way to get this information passed through without touching the code?
I am struggling. After clicking "Begin deployment" and signing in to aws, error code 400 came up with "The page you tried was not found." What could be the problem?
Thanks for this video, I followed all the steps and everything works correctly. I just have one question, before using amazon for facebook API I used the official facebook plugin on wordpress. Do I have to do anything in particular? There are no problems to have two types of conversion API? Thanks for your answer.
Hey what about deduplication with Event ID?! where should this be set up?
It's all done automatically using this method.
Hello, how many and what kind of events can I have with this kind of api implementation?
Thank you very much for the answers. Last question: do i have to set up events through the pixel once again, after setting up the conversion API? Because i think, that, if i firstly set up the pixel events and after that set up the conversion API, the conversion API will not detect them correctly and the server events will not trigger or i'm wrong? In other words, what do to first: pixel events set up and after that conversion API set up or first conversion API set up aht after that Pixel events?
Hi Andrew is it necessary for the sub to work? or can I create it without adding content?
I've been stuck at the "Installing the Conversions API Gateway" during the provisioning. Any idea what the issue could be?
I am getting a 404 Not Found Error when I visit the ConversionsApiGatewayInstanceURL. I have tried twice and it has happened both times. The A Record has propagated for the sub-domain. Help!
You are awesome, love you dude.
But I have a question, while accessing [ connect your conversion API gateway in event ] what if our business doesn't have any subdomain. Actually, this is the only doubt I'm stuck with.
I'm still having trouble, I use shopify to purchase the domain name and now its causing me problems 😢
So what is the different between this and using event manager -> settings -> generate access token -> manage integration etc?
There are lots of what to set up capi. This is just one of them
Awesome stuff man - thanks so much for this!
Cheers! Glad it helped!
Hi Andrew. Great video.Thanks. My FBCAPI instalation failed and Im not sure why. It is saying " control system takes too long to be ready" Is this because when creating the DNS record I was only given the option of 5 minutes, no lower. I saw yours said 1 minute. Any tips? Thanks again
After setting up everything, whne navigating to Outputs, the link doesn't work for me😭 I lost all the day
How necessary is it that? I guess it's very necessary, recently FB can't get the data of the purchases properly. If I do this will the problem be solved?
Yep, it’s a must do at this point. It won’t solve the problem completely but it’s helpful
Are you sure that the basic support still works? I think they make you go to the $100 business plan now. I don't see the correct instance types now. Please lmk if you have any input here!
If I want to add another domain later on to the Facebook API Gateway, how can I do that?
Hi Andrew, Thank you for the great video! I wanted to start fresh and I went ahead and deleted my A record DNS and my AWS Stack. However, when I went to start fresh, I was unable to since it says that the Conversion API Gateway is connected. How can I proceed?
Hey, thank you for the video, why dont you use the wordpress build-in setup and add the facebook plugin and setup it?
My experience with the plugin hasn't been great. Unreliable and didn't handle deduplication well. This has been more robust for me. I'm sure they're constantly improving the plugin though, so if you prefer to go down that route then there's no reason not to try it for yourself and see if it works for you.
I like your content. As a beginner in FB ads this is really pure gold :) Sometimes overwhelming but so valuable. Thank you. Another question. Your videos are presented so good. Are you cutting your videos on your self or do you have someone who is doing that? It would also be interesting to have such a skill.
Appreciate the kind words! I have an amazing editor who does it all for me. I literally record it and send it over to her and she works her magic :)
@@AndrewHubbard1 how did you find your editor?
@@homebuyerlab Onlinejobs.ph :)
@@AndrewHubbard1 thank you! I Judy filled out the form on your website as well. Interested in your services for dialing in our ads using our video content.
Hi there! Loved your video! However AWS is charging me a lot more than I thought it would...have I done something wrong? Our bill is around AUD$100 for only 2 weeks
Hey Pip! That does sound expensive compared to the bills im seeing but it depends on how much traffic you get, so it’s hard to say whether it’s more than it should be.
What platforms do you use for website and email list (Wordpress, mailchimp etc.)? There might be an alternate method I can point you towards that’s free
@@AndrewHubbard1 Hi there! We are using click funnels - thanks!
@@pipward Same thing. Just got charged $40 USD for 2 weeks. Only 3.7k PageView events recorded. This seems like a very expensive way to do CAPI. I'll be looking into something else.
Hey Andrew thank you for this great video. I'm all setup for a month but I've been charged $80usd for Feb for Elastic Compute Cloud! Why am I being charged this. From your video it didn't explain there would be this charge? Thank you in advance :)
Hey Kiki - I actually mentioned in the video that AWS is a paid service and will have fees.
how can we connect from mobile app instead of web site? is that possible?
Hi,
I integrated the API through AWS, all events but the page view event are being sent through the browser, and not the server.
The AWS console also only detects page view events.
Do I need to add new events as a "standard event" via the pixel, to make them work?
Yes, you need to implement the conversion events via pixel as well. You should always do that no matter how you set up capi
@@AndrewHubbard1 Ok Thanks! And can this be done by using the event tool? Or does it need to be manually coded.
Really appreciate you helping an API beginner!
@@jelledevlieger3531 Hi, did you find a solution for the events? I'm wondering the same thing as you about the events set up.
i want to setup a conversion api to see how many of the link clicks also clicks onto the song link inside the link, can i do that with this method?
Not quite sure what you mean sorry mate. Can you describe your exact setup for me and where you’re sending traffic to?
@@AndrewHubbard1 I'm new to facebook ads but i've been running an ad for a song and despite getting 23 000 impressions and 2000 link clicks i see no sign of new listeners from the ads. I want to set it up so i can see how many actually convert out of those who click the link but don't know how to. with convert i mean how many of those that click the link also go click another link that leads them to the song on different platforms
OMG Great video - so helpful. A question, if I have 4 products (ebook, mini course, course,, coaching) how would you recommend i set up purchase events to reflect the different value of each one? Can I just set up as 4 separate custom evetns/conversions? Or set up purchase with dynamic value?
Facebook doesn't give me "A Record" what should i do next?
Same, there is no A record
Hi Andrew great video - My web provider/Hosting site says that if they add the new IP address to my DNS setting it will point to that and no longer to my website. Am I missing something?
Hi Darren
You just have to add an A record to the sub domain that you created while setting up the conversion api and not your main domain