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JobTread conversion tracking: the proposal gets signed in the portal, and your ads never hear about it

A homeowner clicks your kitchen remodel or deck ad, fills in the JobTread web form on your site, and shows up as a new JobTread customer with nothing saying which ad sent them. Weeks later they sign the proposal in the customer portal, while Google and Meta keep counting form fills from people who only wanted a drywall patch. We carry the click into JobTread and report approved proposals, with contract value, back to your ad accounts.

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JobTread · what breaks

What goes wrong when JobTread sits between your ads and your signed jobs

  1. 01

    "Google says the form converts. I can't tell which of those leads signed."

    Your ads count the web form submit and stop there. A request for a closet shelf and a whole-home addition look identical, so Smart Bidding buys more of whatever fills the form fastest.

  2. 02

    "New customers show up in JobTread with no source"

    The web form fills a JobTread customer from the fields you set up, and JobTread's feature pages say nothing about hidden fields or URL parameters, so we confirm whether yours can carry them. Unless someone built that path, the click ID dies on the way in and lead source becomes whatever a rep types.

  3. 03

    "The signature happens in an email link, weeks after the click"

    Proposals are approved in the customer portal through a personal link JobTread emails to the homeowner. Your site tags never load there, so the moment money is committed never reaches Google Ads or Meta.

  4. 04

    "Subs and repeat clients inflate my lead count"

    JobTread pitches its web-to-lead forms for vendors as well as customers. When a sub's registration or a past client's warranty request counts as a lead, cost per lead looks better than it is and the platforms learn from the wrong people.

JobTread · the fix

What changes after the fix — JobTread

  • Every JobTread customer carries its ad source

    Google click ID, Meta click ID and UTM tags live in custom fields on the customer and job, so every lead in JobTread shows the campaign that sent it.

  • Bidding learns from approved proposals

    When a proposal flips to approved in the portal, Google Ads and Meta get a conversion with the contract value, matched to the original click.

  • Junk drops out of the numbers

    Vendor submissions, change orders and repeat clients are filtered before anything is reported, so cost per signed job is a number you can plan a budget around.

JobTread · architecture

What JobTread actually lets you hook into

All of this comes from JobTread's own docs and its Zapier listing. Where the docs are silent, it's a test on your account.

  1. 1

    Customer web form, by hosted link or embed code

    Documented. Submissions create a customer, or a customer and a job together, from the fields you customize. We confirm whether your embed accepts hidden or prefilled values; the docs don't say.

  2. 2

    Custom fields on customers and jobs

    JobTread documents custom fields on customers, customer contacts and jobs. This is where the click ID, UTM tags and a clean lead source belong.

  3. 3

    Zapier triggers and actions

    Zapier lists triggers including Customer Created, Job Created, Job Updated and Document Updated, plus actions such as Create Customer, Create Job and Query API.

  4. 4

    Open API with grant keys

    JobTread's open API (its Pave query language) is authorized by grant keys, and its API developer certification covers webhooks on JobTread events. We confirm which events your account can use.

  5. 5

    Customer portal and payments

    Homeowners sign and approve proposals in the portal through an emailed magic link, and pay invoices sent through the portal online via JobTread's Stripe integration. The document status change is what we listen for.

  6. 6

    No native ad-platform connection

    JobTread's integrations page lists no Google Ads, GA4, Google Tag Manager or Meta integration, so signals have to be built.

JobTread · diagnose

Where JobTread tracking breaks, in diagnostic order

We start at the form: if the click never reaches JobTread, nothing downstream can be matched.

  1. 01

    Check what a test lead carries into the customer record

    Submit from a URL with a test click ID and open the new customer in JobTread.

  2. 02

    Find out what your site counts as a conversion

    A thank-you page view, a submit-button click, or nothing at all if the embedded JobTread form never tells your tags it was sent.

  3. 03

    Look at how lead source gets filled

    Free text typed by a rep can't be trusted for budget decisions.

  4. 04

    See whether any event leaves JobTread when a proposal is approved

    Usually none does, which is the whole gap.

  5. 05

    Count vendor, warranty and repeat-client records

    They have to be excluded before any conversion goes out.

  6. 06

    Check Zapier-fed leads from Facebook Lead Ads or Google lead forms

    Confirm the platform's lead ID is stored in JobTread so it can be sent back when the job signs.

JobTread · prove

The QA evidence on JobTread

Run on a live lead through your own site and a real proposal approval.

Source of truth

JobTread customer, job and document records: approved proposals with approval date and contract value, plus invoices paid through the customer portal

  • One test lead from an ad-tagged URL, with the click ID visible on the JobTread customer.
  • A test proposal approved in the portal and received once in Google Ads and once in Meta, sharing one event ID.
  • Contract value on the conversion matching the approved document.
  • Vendor submissions and change orders confirmed absent from the conversion feed.
  • Approved proposals reconciled record by record against both ad platforms over a closed month.
  • Repeated 30 days later and after any change to your form or Zap.

JobTread · free audit

What we check in the free audit

  • Check what a test lead carries into the customer record
  • Find out what your site counts as a conversion
  • Look at how lead source gets filled
  • See whether any event leaves JobTread when a proposal is approved
  • Count vendor, warranty and repeat-client records
  • Check Zapier-fed leads from Facebook Lead Ads or Google lead forms

Checked against

JobTread customer, job and document records: approved proposals with approval date and contract value, plus invoices paid through the customer portal

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JobTread · when not to buy

When you don't need this on JobTread

Some JobTread shops are better off spending the money elsewhere.

  • If nearly all your work comes from referrals and repeat builders and you barely advertise, there's little for an ad platform to learn from.
  • If proposals get signed on paper outside the JobTread portal, fix that first; there's no approval event to send.
  • If leads land in HighLevel or another CRM first and it already reports qualified leads back with click IDs, the work may belong there, and we'll say so.
  • If you're happy bidding on JobTread web form submits, a clean submit conversion on the page that hosts the form is a small job you can do yourself.

JobTread · what we deliver

The event map on JobTread

  • Web form submitted

    Secondary signal from your site, with the click ID captured before the customer record exists.

  • Customer created in JobTread

    Confirms the lead arrived, with source fields filled; vendor records excluded.

  • Job created (qualified)

    Your team decided it's worth estimating. A qualified-lead step in Google Ads.

  • Proposal sent

    Tracked so you can see where projects stall between site visit and signature.

  • Proposal approved

    The primary conversion, valued at the signed contract amount from the document.

  • Invoice paid

    Logged from invoices paid online through the customer portal, which runs on JobTread's Stripe integration, for revenue checks; change orders kept out of acquisition.

Written guarantee

95%+ tracking accuracy

Measured against JobTread customer, job and document records: approved proposals with approval date and contract value, plus invoices paid through the customer portal. Miss it and we keep working at no cost.

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FAQ

JobTread questions, answered

Not natively. JobTread's integrations page lists no Google Ads, GA4, Google Tag Manager or Meta connection, so conversions have to be sent through Zapier, its open API or a server container we set up.

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