Deduplicating Conversions
It’s important that Rockerbox conversion reports are aligned with your internal reports for consistency between systems. While we do expect Discrepancies, we also want to prevent over-counting of conversions. This can happen for a number of reasons, including:
- pixels fire multiple times for a pixel-based conversion event
- a Webhooks payload includes the same conversion event more than once
- the same order is delivered in a Batch File more than once
To address this, Rockerbox will deduplicate conversion events based on the conversion key set under Settings -> Conversions -> Edit -> Setup Options.
- For example, if the conversion key is set to order_id, Rockerbox will only count one conversion per unique order_id we receive.
- This is to prevent counting multiple conversions for inadvertent fires (eg if a customer refreshes the confirmation page after completing an order).
- If ‘Enable Cross-Day Deduplication’ is enabled, we’ll deduplicate across days.
If a conversion is deduplicated, the conversion data received earlier will take precedent and the more recent conversion will be deduplicated (ignored).
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You can also use a combination of comma-separated values as the conversion key. For example, you can use email,date,action if you only want to count one conversion per email per day.
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If the pixel isn’t passing us email, you could use uid,date,action to count one conversion per Rockerbox cookie id per day. This is our default conversion key for upper-funnel events that don’t pass us identifying information like email or external_id.
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Be careful only to include values that are being passed to the Rockerbox conversion pixel in the conversion key. If you set the conversion key to order_id, and we don’t get order_id, we’ll deduplicate everything and won’t count any conversions