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Selling through Messenger properly: measure revenue instead of guessing

Most Vietnamese retailers close orders in the inbox, but Meta only counts "conversations". Here's how to turn the inbox into a channel with real numbers.

20 Jul 2026 · 4 min read

Why Ads Manager is blind to Messenger revenue

When a customer taps your ad and sends a message, Meta records a "conversation started" event. Whether they actually order happens entirely inside the conversation — where Meta has no access.

The result: ROAS reporting in Ads Manager is nearly always empty for inbox-based selling, leaving the shop owner with no basis for deciding whether to pause or scale.

An ad recipe built specifically for selling through messages

There is a configuration combination designed to optimise the "message then buy" flow, helping Meta deliver to the audiences most likely to message and close.

This is the blind spot of most international tools, which were built for website purchases rather than conversations.

Check Page eligibility before publishing, and avoid losing days to a rejection

Before publishing a message-based campaign, the system checks the Page's messaging-related technical conditions and warns you immediately if something is missing — instead of letting you find out after the campaign is already rejected.

Selling through Messenger properly: measure revenue instead of guessing — Adly