Shopify has a built in free connector for Meta Ads as part of the Facebook Sales Channel. This was built in 2021 and is maintained by Shopify.
Blotout restores your marketing signals in the post-cookie world. Your returning customers are showing up as anonymous and Blotout aims to identify them.
Feature | Facebook Sales Channel | Blotout | Littledata |
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Customer data to marketing platforms | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
30 day free trial | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
Fully automatic, no code setup | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
Identity resolution to boost audiences | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
Server-side tracking | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
Founder owned and led | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
Works with platforms other than Shopify | ✔️ | ||
Automatic tracking of checkout steps | ✔️ | ||
No-code setup for Shopify Hydrogen | ✔️ |
Facebook Sales Channel offers a seamless integration with Shopify, providing customer data to marketing platforms with a no-code setup and a 30-day free trial. However, it is limited to Shopify. Blotout focuses on identity resolution and server-side tracking, working with multiple platforms but lacks the ease of setup. Littledata combines the strengths of both, offering identity resolution, server-side tracking, and automatic checkout tracking, all with a no-code setup and a 30-day free trial. This makes Littledata a more versatile choice for comprehensive data collection and tracking across various platforms.
Facebook Sales Channel | Blotout | Littledata | |
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Example product review | "Tracking is inaccurate, ad spend wasted, and support is unhelpful...data doesn’t match up, making it impossible to optimize campaigns." | "After using Blotout for a couple months, we decided to drop them... Blotout was taking credit for a lot of Klaviyo pixel events that would’ve happened anyway... Event match quality in Facebook was marginally better, but I don’t think it warrants the cost or complexity." | "We were having difficulties with accurate and consistent revenue attribution...With Littledata implemented, we now get consistent and accurate revenue attribution." |
Example support review | "Cannot get anyone to follow through and help me... I get bounced around from tech support person to another." | "It took weeks to get a reply regarding a refund... it seems they grew too fast to keep up with customer service." | "Customer support is absolutely amazing... you can never go wrong when an app does what it says and tacks on great service!" |
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Store size | Facebook Sales Channel | Blotout | Littledata |
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50 orders / month | $0 | $50 | $39 |
500 orders / month | $0 | $250 | $149 |
5,000 orders / month | $0 | $830 | $349 |
20,000 orders / month | $0 | $2500 | $799 |
For an online store with 50 orders, Blotout is 127% more expensive than Littledata. At 500 orders, Littledata costs 100% more than Blotout, which is free. At 5,000 orders, Blotout is 138% more expensive than Littledata. Finally, at 20,000 orders, Blotout is 213% more expensive than Littledata. Throughout all order volumes, Facebook Sales Channel remains free, highlighting significant price differences, especially at higher order counts where Blotout's costs escalate dramatically.
Destination | Facebook Sales Channel | Blotout | Littledata |
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Meta Ads | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Google Analytics | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
Klaviyo | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
Google Ads | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
Attentive | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
Postscript | ✔️ | ||
TikTok | ✔️ | ||
✔️ | |||
Segment | ✔️ |
The main difference lies in the range and integration of data destinations. Facebook Sales Channel's data destination focuses primarily on Meta Ads, optimizing ad performance within the Facebook ecosystem. In contrast, Blotout offers a broader array of destinations, including Google Analytics, Klaviyo, and multiple ad platforms, allowing for more comprehensive cross-channel tracking. Littledata also provides extensive integrations but includes additional platforms like TikTok and Pinterest, enhancing multi-channel marketing capabilities. Overall, Blotout and Littledata support a wider variety of marketing tools compared to Facebook Sales Channel, enabling more holistic data analysis and strategy development.
Feature | Facebook Sales Channel | Blotout | Littledata |
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Key benefits | |||
Fully automatic setup | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
Boost to Event Match Quality Score | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
100% accurate revenue in Meta | ✔️ | ||
Pre-purchase audiences based on first-party data | ✔️ | ||
Target subscriptions vs one-time purchases | ✔️ | ||
AddToCart | |||
Via Conversions API | ✔️ | ||
InitiateCheckout | |||
Via Conversions API | ✔️ | ||
Includes all checkout steps | ✔️ | ||
Purchase | |||
Via Conversions API | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Includes post-purchase upsells | ✔️ | ||
Includes recurring orders | ✔️ | ||
Filters to exclude orders from some channels | ✔️ | ||
New vs Returning customer conversions | ✔️ |