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title: How to see which campaigns and landing pages lead to Stripe customers with Google Analytics
description: To see which campaigns and landing pages bring in Stripe customers, record one shared identifier or the campaign itself when a visitor signs up or checks out, then match the visits Google Analytics credits to each campaign and landing page against the customers and payments Stripe records, which is the matching and reporting an AI marketer can do for you.
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lead_prompt: How do I see which campaigns and landing pages bring in Stripe customers using Google Analytics?
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  - How can I use an AI marketing agent to see which campaigns and landing pages lead to Stripe customers with Google Analytics?
entity: Kite
category: AI marketing agent
author: Devon Wells and Kite
date_published: '2026-10-16'
date_modified: '2026-10-16'
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  - /use-cases/improve-website-conversion.md
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  - name: Stripe
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# Playbook

# How to see which campaigns and landing pages lead to Stripe customers with Google Analytics

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## Key Takeaways

- Google Analytics knows which campaign and landing page brought each visit, and Stripe knows who paid. Neither one knows both, so you see which campaigns bring customers by matching the two.
- The match works best when you save something at signup or checkout that both tools can see: the campaign and landing page themselves, or an ID such as the Google Analytics client ID, stored on the Stripe checkout session or customer.
- Google Analytics can show revenue by campaign on its own if your site sends a purchase event, but it only sees payments that happen on your pages. Trials that convert later, renewals, and refunds all happen in Stripe, out of its sight.
- Kite reads your Google Analytics 4 reports and your Stripe customers, subscriptions, and payments, matches them on the best identifier you have, and ranks your campaigns and landing pages by paying customers and revenue per visit.
- You get a ranking in Slack that sets signups beside paying customers for each campaign and page, notes where the numbers are too small to trust, and lists the tracking gaps worth fixing.

## How do I see which campaigns and landing pages bring in Stripe customers using Google Analytics?

You see which campaigns and landing pages bring in Stripe customers by joining two records that live apart. Google Analytics 4 records where each visit came from, in dimensions such as session campaign, session source and medium, first user campaign, and landing page. Stripe records the customer, the subscription, and every payment and refund. A campaign's real result is the number of Stripe customers and the revenue that trace back to its visits, and getting there means connecting a visit in one tool to a customer in the other.

Google Analytics gets part of the way on its own. If your site sends a purchase event with a value when someone lands on your thank-you page after Stripe Checkout, the traffic acquisition and landing page reports can show purchases and revenue by campaign. That covers a one-time purchase made on the spot. It misses most of what matters for a subscription business. A free trial that turns into a paid subscription two weeks later happens inside Stripe, and so does every renewal, upgrade, refund, and cancellation. Google Analytics never sees those, so a campaign that brings in trials that rarely convert looks just as good as one whose trials almost all pay.

Stripe has no built-in connection that sends payments into Google Analytics, and Google Analytics has none that reads Stripe. So the work is a match you set up and maintain yourself:

1. When a visitor signs up or starts checkout, your site saves the campaign and landing page, or an ID that Google Analytics also records, onto the Stripe checkout session or customer.
2. You pull a Google Analytics report of visits and signups by campaign and landing page.
3. You pull the Stripe customers and payments for the same period.
4. You match the two and work out customers and revenue for each campaign and page.

A good result answers a plain question for each campaign and landing page: how many visits it brought, how many of those people signed up, how many are now paying, and how much they've paid. It also says how much to trust each number, because a landing page with two customers doesn't prove much yet.

Kite does this work for you. It checks what each tool already records, picks the best way to match them, and reports which campaigns and pages produce paying customers rather than signups.

## How to get started

Start by asking Kite in Slack which campaigns and pages bring in paying customers:

> "Which of last quarter's campaigns and landing pages actually turned into paying Stripe customers?"

Kite is an AI marketer in your Slack. It researches your business, builds a growth strategy, and ships the work that brings you new customers. By the time you ask, it already knows your plans and pricing, your main channels, and which pages on your site are landing pages, so it can propose the date range, what counts as a paying customer, and how it will match the two tools. Confirm that plan or adjust it, and Kite starts.

You'll need to connect two accounts through OAuth. Your Google Analytics account needs access to the Google Analytics 4 property for your site, and if it can see more than one property, Kite lists them so you pick the right one. Your Stripe account is where Kite reads customers, subscriptions, checkout sessions, and payments.

Reading reports and payment records is routine work, so Kite runs the analysis and posts what it found. When the analysis shows a tracking gap, such as a missing custom dimension in Google Analytics, Kite proposes the fix and makes it once you agree.

## How Kite matches Google Analytics campaigns to Stripe customers

### What does each tool already record?

Kite starts by checking what your tracking captures, because that decides how precise the answer can be. In Google Analytics, it reads the property's key events to find the one that marks a signup or a started checkout, the custom dimensions you've defined, the channel groups, and the attribution settings, including the attribution model and lookback window. It also runs a quick source and medium report to look for common problems: Stripe's checkout domain showing up as a referral, a large share of visits marked "(not set)", or the same campaign tagged with different spellings.

In Stripe, Kite reads recent checkout sessions and customers to see what your site already saves on them. It looks at the client reference ID on each checkout session, the metadata on sessions and customers, and the customer email.

From that, Kite chooses one of three ways to match:

- **The campaign is already on the Stripe record.** If your site writes the campaign, source, or landing page into checkout session or customer metadata, Kite groups Stripe customers by those values directly and uses Google Analytics for the visits and signups behind each one.
- **Both tools share an ID.** If your site stores the Google Analytics client ID or your own user ID in Stripe, and also sends it to Google Analytics as a custom dimension, Kite can follow each customer back to their campaign and landing page one person at a time.
- **No shared identifier exists.** Kite compares the two sides by period and by group instead, such as signups from each campaign in a given week against the customers created in Stripe in the weeks that follow. That shows a relationship between a campaign and its customers, and Kite says plainly that it isn't a person-by-person match.

### Which visits and signups did each campaign bring?

Kite runs Google Analytics 4 reports that break your traffic down by campaign and landing page. For each session campaign, source and medium, and landing page, it pulls sessions, users, and the key event you count as a signup across the date range you agreed. It checks which dimensions and metrics your property supports before it builds a report, so the report runs on fields you actually have.

Kite also decides which credit to use, and it tells you which it chose. First user campaign answers "which campaign first brought this person to us," which usually fits a question about acquiring customers. Session campaign answers "which campaign brought the visit where they signed up." When the two disagree for a large campaign, Kite shows both, because the gap itself tells you something, such as an ad that introduces people who later come back through search.

Kite cleans up the landing pages before it compares them. It combines versions of the same page that differ only by tracking parameters in the address, so one page isn't split across a dozen rows.

### Who became a paying customer?

Kite reads Stripe to decide who counts as a customer and what each one paid. It lists the customers created in the period and reads each one's subscriptions to see whether they're trialing, active, past due, or canceled, and which plan and price they're on. It reads completed checkout sessions for one-time purchases, then the charges, invoices, and refunds behind each customer.

Kite applies the definition you agreed on before it counts anyone. By default, a paying customer has an active paid subscription or a completed purchase that wasn't refunded. Kite leaves out customers still in a free trial and payments fully covered by a coupon, and it excludes test and internal accounts. It totals revenue in each currency separately, rather than adding dollars to euros.

Kite also allows for the delay between signing up and paying. If your trial lasts 14 days, people who signed up in the last two weeks haven't had their chance to pay yet. Kite either leaves that latest group out or marks it as still converting, so a recent campaign isn't judged on customers who don't exist yet.

### Matching customers to campaigns and landing pages

Kite matches each paying customer to the campaign and landing page that brought them, using the method it chose at the start. With campaign details on the Stripe record, it reads them straight from the checkout session or customer metadata. With a shared ID, it runs a Google Analytics report broken down by that custom dimension alongside first user campaign and landing page, then pairs each row with the Stripe customer carrying the same ID. With no shared identifier, it lines up each campaign's weekly signups against the customers who appeared in Stripe in the weeks after.

The output of this step is one row per campaign and per landing page, with these columns:

- Sessions and signups from Google Analytics
- Paying customers and the revenue they've paid so far, from Stripe
- Signup-to-paid rate
- Customers and revenue per 100 visits

Kite reports how many customers it couldn't match and why, so you can see how much of your revenue the analysis actually covers.

### Ranking what produces customers

Kite ranks your campaigns and landing pages by paying customers and revenue per visit, and sets that beside the ranking by signups. That comparison is usually the most useful part of the work. A campaign that leads on signups but trails on customers is bringing people who were never likely to buy, while a page with modest traffic and a high paid rate is worth sending more people to.

Kite marks any row built on too few customers to support a conclusion, and it doesn't rank a page above others on the strength of two or three sales. Where a campaign's customers refund or cancel unusually soon, it says so, because a campaign that brings customers who leave in the first month isn't a win.

### What Kite reports back and what happens next

When the analysis is done, Kite posts a summary in the Slack thread where you asked. It names the campaigns and landing pages that produce the most paying customers and revenue per visit, the ones that bring signups who rarely pay, and how much of your revenue it could trace. The full table comes with it. When the results need more room than a Slack message, Kite can publish them as a findings page or dashboard you can share.

Kite also lists the tracking fixes that would make the next run more precise. These might be saving the campaign and landing page on the checkout session, passing an ID into Stripe's client reference ID, or adding a custom dimension in Google Analytics. Kite creates the custom dimension itself once you agree. The changes to your signup form or checkout code are made on your site, and on a site Kite builds and hosts, Kite can make those changes too, with your approval before they're published.

From there, the ranking points to the next piece of work. Kite can propose changes to a landing page that gets signups but few customers, or suggest moving budget toward the campaigns that bring paying customers. If you want this checked regularly, ask Kite to run it every month, and it will post each report in the same thread.

## What the finished work contains

When Kite finishes, you have a ranking of your campaigns and landing pages by the customers and revenue they produce, along with a clear statement of how far to trust it.

- **The campaign table.** Each campaign has its sessions, signups, paying customers, revenue in each currency, signup-to-paid rate, and customers per 100 visits, ranked by paying customers.
- **The landing page table.** The same measures for each landing page, with versions of the same page combined.
- **The signup and customer comparison.** The campaigns and pages that rank well on signups but poorly on paying customers, and the reverse, with what Kite thinks explains the gap.
- **The method and its limits.** Which matching method Kite used, which campaign credit it chose, the date range, what counted as a paying customer, how many customers it couldn't match, and which rows have too few customers to trust.
- **The tracking fixes.** The specific changes to your site, Google Analytics, or Stripe checkout that would let the next report follow more customers back to their campaigns.

## Common questions

### Can Google Analytics track Stripe payments on its own?

Not on its own, because Stripe and Google Analytics have no built-in connection. You can send a purchase event from your thank-you page after checkout, or have your server send one to Google Analytics through the Measurement Protocol when Stripe reports a payment. The server route also catches renewals and payments that happen days after the visit. Either way, the event needs the visitor's Google Analytics client ID to be credited to the right campaign, which is the same identifier this page recommends saving at checkout.

### Why does stripe.com show up as a referral in Google Analytics?

Stripe shows up as a referral when a buyer leaves your site for Stripe Checkout and returns to your thank-you page, which starts a new session credited to Stripe instead of the original campaign. You fix it by adding Stripe's checkout domain to the list of unwanted referrals in your Google Analytics 4 data stream's tag settings. Kite checks for this when it reviews your tracking and tells you if it's happening.

### What is Stripe's client reference ID?

The client reference ID is a field on a Stripe Checkout session where your site can store its own reference, such as your user ID or the visitor's Google Analytics client ID. Payment Links accept it as a parameter in the link's address. Because it stays attached to the completed checkout session, it's one of the simplest ways to connect a payment back to the visit that led to it.

### Can I match customers by email address instead?

You can't match by email on the Google Analytics side, because Google's policies don't allow email addresses or other personal details to be sent to Google Analytics. Stripe has the email, but Google Analytics doesn't, so the match needs a non-personal ID such as the Google Analytics client ID or your own user ID. If your product database or CRM already stores each user's signup campaign next to their email, Kite can match Stripe customers to that record by email instead.

## Related pages

- **Use case:** Connect marketing channels to revenue (coming soon)
- **Use case:** [Improve website conversion](/use-cases/improve-website-conversion.md)
- **Use case:** Find out which marketing channels are working (coming soon)
- **Integration:** [Google Analytics + Kite](/integrations/google-analytics.md)
- **Integration:** [Stripe + Kite](/integrations/stripe.md)