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Conversion tracking for window and door, measured in signed contracts

Windows and doors is an in-home sales business wearing a lead generation costume. The appointment set is what everybody counts, and it is a poor signal: sit rates vary hugely by campaign, and a set appointment nobody attends is a cost rather than a conversion. The contracts themselves are large, often financed, and subject to a cancellation window that most accounts ignore entirely — so reported revenue includes deals that were legally unwound.

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By Ariful IslamWindows and doors, in short ↓

Getting and tracking leads for window companies

Where a window and door company's appointments come from, and which ones deserve the credit

Window and door companies buy leads from Search ads, Local Services Ads, the Business Profile, Meta and lead sellers like Modernize and Angi, then sell in the home. Count an enquiry when it becomes an appointment set with the homeowners who decide, and keep the original source on the lead in LeadPerfection, improveit360 or MarketSharp until the contract is signed or cancelled.

The complaint usually sounds like this: 'Google Ads says we got plenty of leads, the call center set a lot of them, and the reps sold a handful.' Replacement windows and entry doors are sold at the kitchen table, so the lead is three steps from the money: set, sat with both homeowners, sold. Lead sources in MarketSharp, improveit360 and LeadPerfection are picklists, so a lead keyed in by the call center says 'Google' with no click ID, and an appointment confirmed over the phone loses the web visit that produced it. The same homeowner can also arrive from Modernize, then search your company name and click a brand ad, and both channels take the credit for one sale.

The ten-minute check: take last month's sold jobs and walk each one back to its first lead record. How many carry a click ID or a tracked call, and how many say only 'Internet' or the name of whoever typed it in? Then put appointments set by source next to appointments sat and sold. A source with plenty of sets and few sits is buying appointments the homeowners never meant to keep, and Google keeps paying for more of them because the set appointment is the only thing it ever hears about.

Fixed looks like this: every web and ad lead lands in the CRM with its click ID or tracked call, purchased appointments and canvassed homes are tagged so they never reach a Google or Meta upload, and the sat appointment and the signed contract go back to Google Ads with their value. Patio and entry door jobs are valued apart from whole-house window projects, and sliding door repair calls stop counting as replacement leads. The free audit starts with those sold jobs and their first lead record.

Where the leads come from

Google Search adsReplacement window and entry door searches, with your own landing page and offerClick ID captured on the form or the tracked call, so sat appointments and signed contracts can be imported.
Local Services AdsRepair calls more than replacement projects, paid per leadGoogle's category is Window repair services, so expect foggy glass, broken seals and stuck sliders; no click ID, so match by phone and time.
Business ProfileShowroom or service-area listing, with reviews from finished installsTracking number as primary with the main line as additional, and UTMs on the website link.
MetaSeasonal replacement offers to homeowners in your areaJudge on sat appointments, and check Meta's ad category rules before leading with a financing offer.
Modernize, Angi, Remodeling.comBought appointments and shared quote requestsNo click of yours exists; tag them in the CRM and keep them out of every ad upload.
Dealer locator and canvassingReferrals from a manufacturer's find-a-dealer page, plus door-knocking leadsGive each its own source, so brand referrals and canvassed homes never inflate an ad channel.

Which calls count

Count it when
Count the call when a homeowner asks for an in-home estimate on windows or doors at an address you serve and an appointment is set. Glass, screen and track repair calls go to service, not to the sales count.
Minimum duration
A starting threshold of around two minutes, because setting an in-home appointment means the address, how many openings and a time when both owners are home; adjust it from your recordings.
After hours
Replacement forms come in during the evening, when both homeowners are home together. A callback that same evening or first thing next morning matters more than overnight phones, which mostly catch repair calls.

Where each lead should land

Search ad form or call
Lead in MarketSharp, improveit360 or LeadPerfection with the click ID in a custom field where the system allows one, carried to the appointment and the sale.
Local Services Ads call
Lead with source Google LSA and the caller's number, usually routed to service rather than to a sales appointment.
Lead seller appointment
Lead tagged with the seller's name, excluded from Google and Meta uploads, and compared on sat and sold.
Visualizer or design tool lead (Hover, Renoworks)
Lead created in the tool first, so the click ID has to be captured on your page before the embed loads, or it is lost on the way to the CRM.

Windows and doors · what breaks

What window and door companies usually run into

  1. 01

    Appointments set counted as conversions

    Sit rates vary enormously by campaign. The campaign with the cheapest appointments frequently has the worst sit rate.

  2. 02

    Cancellations inside the rescission window never reversed

    So reported revenue includes contracts that were legally cancelled.

  3. 03

    Financing declines treated as sales

    A signed contract that fails financing is not revenue, and in this category it happens often.

Windows and doors · the fix

What changes — Windows and doors

  • Signed contracts as the conversion

    Net of the cancellation window, with financing approval confirmed.

  • Contract value on the conversion

    The actual amount, so bidding optimizes toward whole-home jobs rather than single-window replacements.

  • Sit rate visible by campaign

    The number that most often reorders a media plan in this category.

Windows and doors · architecture

The conversion map for window and door companies

Five steps, and the two that matter most are the last two.

  1. 1

    Lead

    Volume only. Includes renters and non-serviceable addresses.

  2. 2

    Appointment set

    What everyone counts. A leading indicator with a wildly variable sit rate.

  3. 3

    Appointment sat

    The first signal that correlates with revenue. A much better optimization target than the set.

  4. 4

    Contract signed

    Subject to rescission and financing. Not yet the money event.

  5. 5

    Contract cleared

    Past the cancellation window, financing approved.

Windows and doors · diagnose

Where window and door companies tracking usually breaks

  1. 01

    Identifier lost at appointment setting

    Whether in-house or an outsourced call center, this hop drops the identifier more often than not.

  2. 02

    Rescission window ignored

    Firing at signature overstates revenue by your cancellation rate, permanently and in one direction.

  3. 03

    Non-serviceable and renter leads

    Pure cost, and counting them teaches the algorithm to find more.

  4. 04

    Long cycles against import windows

    Usually fine at a few weeks, but measure it rather than assuming.

Windows and doors · prove

How the work is proven — Windows and doors

Source of truth

The CRM — contracts cleared past rescission with financing approved, by date, for the same window

  • Cleared contracts reconciled per contract against what each platform reports.
  • Sit rate measured by campaign and stated in the report.
  • A real cancellation confirmed to reverse at each destination.
  • Identifier coverage measured specifically across the appointment-setting hop.

Windows and doors · free audit

What we check in the free audit

  • Identifier lost at appointment setting
  • Rescission window ignored
  • Non-serviceable and renter leads
  • Long cycles against import windows

Checked against

The CRM — contracts cleared past rescission with financing approved, by date, for the same window

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Windows and doors · when not to buy

What lands in your monthly report — Windows and doors

  • Cleared contracts and revenue by campaign, over a closed month.
  • Cost per cleared contract, next to cost per appointment set — usually a startling gap.
  • Sit rate and cancellation rate by campaign.
  • Average contract value by campaign, which separates whole-home traffic from single-unit traffic.

Windows and doors · what we deliver

The flow we build — Windows and doors

  • Click identifier captured and persisted

    Across the set-to-sit-to-sign gap, which runs weeks.

  • Carried into the CRM and onto the contract

    Through appointment setting, which is the hop where it is usually lost.

  • Signed contract fires the conversion

    After the rescission window closes and financing has cleared.

  • Cancellations and financing failures reversed

    Both are common and both are ignored by nearly every setup we see.

Written guarantee

95%+ tracking accuracy

Measured against The CRM — contracts cleared past rescission with financing approved, by date, for the same window. Miss it and we keep working at no cost.

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FAQ

Windows and doors questions, answered

Contracts if your volume supports it. If not, use appointments *sat* rather than appointments set — the sit rate is where campaigns differ most, and optimizing toward sets rewards whoever books the most people who will not be home.

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