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Why server-side tracking

The failure the browser can't fix

The pixel lives in the browser, and the browser is now designed to stop it: blocking by default, privacy settings, tracking-prevention tooling, and cookie restrictions. The result is that part of your real sales never reaches the ad platform at all. That isn't only a measurement error: the algorithm learns from what reaches it, optimizes against a sample, and your targeting cost rises with every campaign after that.

What server-side actually changes

The event is captured where it happens — in the store, on the server — not in the presentation layer. It's then delivered server-to-server through each platform's conversions API, after enrichment, hashing, and format normalization. An ad blocker never stands in that path.

Store events

Product viewAdd to cartInitiate checkoutOrder completePurchase

Capture at source

In the store, on the server

Enrich & hash

Before anything is sent

Rules & filters

Which events leave, and where

Server-to-server delivery

Each platform's conversions API

MetaTikTokSnap
Raasid's event path: from your store to the three supported channels. The list is complete — what isn't here isn't supported.

Event match quality — the number that matters

An event arriving isn't enough; it has to be matchable to a user on the platform side. Match quality shows that per platform and per signal — email, phone, IP, click ID — so you know which signal is weakening your measurement instead of guessing.

Recovery

When the pixel fails at checkout specifically — the worst possible moment for it to fail — confirmed purchases are recovered from the store's own database. The sale that actually happened arrives, even if its path was delayed.

Proving it

A before/after report on return on ad spend, a channel comparison, and a recovered-conversions table per channel. We put no figure here because we have no published study to stand on — and a number without a source is worse than no number.

Product — Raasid, on Zid.

Channels — Meta, TikTok, Snap.

Specific technical questions?

Talk to the people who built these systems, not to a sales script.