Send conversion events to Google Ads

Send conversion events from PostHog to Google Ads.

Requirements

Using this requires either PostHog Cloud with the data pipelines add-on, or a self-hosted PostHog instance running a recent version of the Docker image.

You'll also need access to the relevant Google Cloud, Google Ads and Google Ads Manager account.

Installation

1. Apply for a Google Ads developer token using these steps.

2. Enable the Google Ads API for your organization in your Google Cloud settings.

3. In Google Ads, go to Goals settings, enable enhanced conversions, set the method to Google Ads API, and click Save.

4. In PostHog, click the Data pipeline tab in the left sidebar.

5. Click the Destinations tab.

6. Search for Google Ads Conversions and select the destination.

7. Connect your Google account at the configuration step.

8. Add your developer token and customer ID.

9. Create a conversion action inside Google Ads
   1. Under Goals > Conversions > Summary, ou'll need to create a conversion goal
   2. Click New conversion action
   3. Select Website
   4. Enter your domain and scan your website
   5. Click Add a conversion action manually, fill in the details about the category name, and enable enhanced conversions (if not already)
   6. Press Done and Save and continue
   7. Click See the event snippet. It should show something like gtag('event', 'conversion', {'send_to': 'AW-XXXXXXXXXXX/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'}). You want the conversion action ID which is the send_to value before the forward slash like AW-XXXXXXXXXXX

10. Back in PostHog, add the conversion action ID to the destination configuration.

11. Set up your event and property filters to remove unnecessary events. You only want to send events that are conversions. Filter out unrelated events or ones missing data like gclid.

12. Press Create & enable, test your destination, and then watch your conversions get sent to Google Ads.