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NetSuite sandbox data conflicts with live Google Ads performance metrics create significant challenges for accurate marketing ROI analysis. Test transactions and dummy customer data don’t represent real revenue, yet Google Ads reports actual spend against sandbox conversion tracking.
Here’s how environment-aware data integration resolves sandbox contamination for clean marketing attribution.
Production data focus eliminates sandbox contamination
Coefficient enables environment-specific data management to resolve sandbox conflicts. While development testing creates false conversion events that inflate Google Ads metrics, systematic environment separation ensures accurate business performance measurement with NetSuite production data.
How to make it work
Step 1. Configure connections to NetSuite production environment only.
Set up Coefficient to connect exclusively to your NetSuite production environment for revenue analysis. This ensures Google Ads performance metrics correlate with actual business outcomes rather than test data.
Step 2. Create separate reporting workflows for testing and production.
Build distinct Coefficient imports for sandbox testing and production analysis to prevent test data contamination of live marketing ROI calculations. Keep development work isolated from business reporting.
Step 3. Implement automated data validation.
Import NetSuite transaction data with environment identifiers to automatically flag and exclude sandbox records from Google Ads ROI analysis. Use Records & Lists to pull only production transactions.
Step 4. Filter conversion tracking to production activities.
Use Coefficient’s filtering capabilities to isolate production NetSuite leads and transactions, ensuring Google Ads conversion attribution reflects genuine customer activity rather than testing scenarios.
Step 5. Set up environment detection workflows.
Schedule imports that automatically identify and exclude sandbox data based on NetSuite subsidiary, department, or custom field markers. This prevents test data from skewing marketing attribution.
Step 6. Maintain clean attribution analysis.
Pull only production NetSuite customer and transaction records for correlation with Google Ads spend data. This eliminates the noise that sandbox data introduces to marketing ROI reporting.
Ensure accurate production performance measurement
Environment-aware data integration maintains clean separation between development activities and live business performance measurement. Start building clean Google Ads and NetSuite integration that focuses on real business outcomes.
