Keep bot checkouts out of your Shopify ad data
Stores that run Meta or Google ads draw automated traffic: bots that land on product pages, add to cart and start checkouts. When those events reach your ad platforms as conversions, their bidding learns to find more of the same. AdProtektor scores every storefront visit, records bot checkouts as fraud in your dashboard, and with ConversionOS and fraud protection active can withhold conversions linked to blocked visitors instead of sending them to Meta, Google Ads and GA4.
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How to connect Shopify
Create your account and add your store
Sign up, add your store's domain and start the free trial. No card is needed to start.Add the storefront script
Copy the tracking script from your dashboard into your theme header, before </head>, so every storefront visit is scored. The script does not capture checkout events on its own.Connect checkout events with ConversionOS
With ConversionOS enabled for the store, open Settings → Integrations → ConversionOS. Add the Custom Pixel snippet in Shopify Admin → Settings → Customer events, and set up the signed order webhook from the same section. Confirm real events arrive before treating setup as complete.Connect your ad platforms
Connect Meta, Google Ads or GA4 as conversion destinations, and connect your Google Ads account so the IP addresses of blocked visitors are excluded from eligible campaigns.
What the integration does
- Scores every storefront visit for bots, competitors and click farms.
- Links a checkout that arrives with no browser visit to the visitor it came from where the evidence allows, and gives it that visitor's verdict.
- Records a checkout that links to no one but carries attack evidence, such as one started straight from the cart API or a burst that outnumbers your real sessions, as Bot traffic in your dashboard.
- With ConversionOS and fraud protection active, can withhold conversion events linked to blocked visitors or crawlers instead of sending them to your destinations.
- Server-side purchase events to Meta Conversions API, Google Ads and GA4, with hashed match keys.
- Google Ads IP exclusions for blocked visitors on eligible connected campaigns, and Meta exclusion audiences where configured and supported.
Shopify questions
Is there a Shopify app?
ConversionOS by AdProtektor is awaiting Shopify App Store review and is not yet available for public installation. Until it is listed, use the storefront script, Custom Pixel and webhook set up from your dashboard.
Can AdProtektor stop a bot from completing a Shopify checkout?
Refusing checkout for a flagged visitor is part of the Shopify app's checkout protection, so it arrives with the app. With manual setup, AdProtektor records bot checkouts as fraud and, with ConversionOS, can keep their conversions away from your ad platforms.
Does withholding change what my ad platforms report?
Conversions linked to blocked visitors or crawlers are not sent, so the platforms see fewer of them. Withholding does not certify every other event as a real customer, and each platform applies its own processing to what it receives.
Do I need to mention AdProtektor in my privacy policy?
Yes. AdProtektor processes visitor data on your behalf to detect click fraud. If you turn on session recording, disclose recording in your privacy notice where required.
Other ways to connect AdProtektor
Set up AdProtektor on your own traffic
Install the script, connect the integrations you use and review the evidence behind any block whenever you need it.
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