Northbeam
Northbeam helps ecommerce marketing teams combine advertising spend, store events and orders to understand channel contribution and make budget decisions. It is aimed at brands with meaningful media spend, clean tracking and an experienced owner for measurement.
Northbeam helps ecommerce marketing teams combine advertising spend, store events and orders to understand channel contribution and make budget decisions. It is aimed at brands with meaningful media spend, clean tracking and an experienced owner for measurement.
Northbeam helps ecommerce marketing teams combine advertising spend, store events and orders to understand channel contribution and make budget decisions.
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- Shopify · Custom API
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- Last reviewed Aug 2026 — Due for refresh

Buying view: Northbeam helps ecommerce marketing teams combine advertising spend, store events and orders to understand channel contribution and make budget decisions. It is aimed at brands with meaningful media spend, clean tracking and an experienced owner for measurement.
Capabilities
The platform offers several ways to examine marketing performance: day-to-day attribution views, diagnostic reporting, longer-range budget models and incrementality tests. These views answer different questions, so teams should align their order, refund, timezone and tracking definitions before reallocating spend.
What problem it addresses
Northbeam helps ecommerce marketing teams combine advertising spend, store events and orders to understand channel contribution and make budget decisions. It is aimed at brands with meaningful media spend, clean tracking and an experienced owner for measurement.
How people use it
The platform offers several ways to examine marketing performance: day-to-day attribution views, diagnostic reporting, longer-range budget models and incrementality tests. These views answer different questions, so teams should align their order, refund, timezone and tracking definitions before reallocating spend.
This composition map separates Northbeam's data and operating views, attribution, causal and planning methods, and activation integration. These are complementary measurement jobs, not interchangeable scores; Apex uses a selected North Star signal after measurement rather than replacing MTA, MMM or incrementality work.
What each module does and its role
Data foundation and Overview
Northbeam's pixel, order feed and connected channel records form the data foundation for its measurement views. Overview is the first operating surface after login: teams can rearrange tiles, choose metrics such as ROAS, CAC or transactions, rename and save views, and share those views across the team. A configurable dashboard improves access to the data but does not resolve missing events, conversion lag or disagreement between source definitions.
Metrics Explorer
Metrics Explorer is the investigation surface for comparing selected metrics, attribution models, channels and dimensions without limiting analysis to a fixed dashboard tile. Growth teams use it to move from a high-level performance change to a narrower operating question. The interpretation still depends on the chosen model, date range and source completeness, so a chart difference is not automatically a causal effect.
Multi-Touch Attribution
Multi-Touch Attribution gives a growth team a daily operating view of customer touchpoints and attributed revenue across channels. Northbeam's models split credit according to documented definitions so operators can compare campaigns and budget decisions at a tactical cadence. The output is attributed performance under a model, not direct proof of incremental revenue.
Clicks + Deterministic Views
Clicks + Deterministic Views extends attribution beyond click events to supported view-through impressions. It helps teams inspect the revenue impact assigned to video and reach activity, subject to the participating platform data and the model's documented scope.
Creative, product and subscription analytics
Northbeam's diagnostic views break attributed performance into questions about creative, products and subscription behavior rather than stopping at a channel total. Operators use these views to identify what deserves a closer test or budget discussion. They inherit the same event, model and lag boundaries as the wider measurement system and should not be presented as a separate source of causal truth.
Media Mix Modeling+
Media Mix Modeling+ is the longer-horizon forecasting and budget-scenario workspace for the wider marketing mix. Teams can model spend, promotions and seasonality, then compare alternative allocations in a self-service dashboard. It supports planning over weeks or months and complements, rather than replaces, the tactical touchpoint view.
Incrementality
Incrementality testing asks whether a marketing action caused lift that would not otherwise have occurred. Northbeam presents it alongside MTA and MMM as a distinct measurement method that can help calibrate broader decisions. Test design, eligible channels, holdouts, timing and statistical interpretation need to be confirmed for the account; an incrementality label alone does not validate every campaign result.
Northbeam Apex
Northbeam Apex is an activation integration that sends an ad-level and order-level Northbeam signal back to a supported ad-platform algorithm. The team selects a North Star revenue type, attribution model, window and accrual basis, connects the required account permissions and allows calibration; changing that North Star can reset a roughly two-week calibration period. Data sharing and live optimization are separate states, current platform support is uneven, and the integration is additive rather than a replacement for the platform pixel or CAPI.
Commercial plans
Northbeam publishes four commercial paths. Starter and Professional show starting or fixed reference prices, but pageviews and ad spend affect fit and final scope; MMM+ and Incrementality are optional rather than automatically included in every plan.
Northbeam public commercial reference
| Product or sales surface | Scope | Public price and status |
|---|---|---|
| Growth | For brands under $200,000 in monthly ad spend that buy through an agency partner. Included plan entitlements
| Custom quote through an agency partner |
| Starter | For brands under $1.5 million in annual ad spend; pageviews can affect the price. Included plan entitlements
| From $1,500/monthMonth-to-month billing published |
| Professional | For brands up to $500,000 in monthly ad spend; confirm pageview and refresh assumptions. Included plan entitlements
Optional add-ons
| $3,500/month for the published scopeUp to $500,000/month in ad spend |
| Enterprise | Enterprise contract with advanced service, refresh and integration options. Included plan entitlements
Optional add-ons
| Custom quoteFor more than $500,000/month in ad spend |
Comparable tools: price and workflow
| Tool | Workflow difference | Official public price reference |
|---|---|---|
| Triple Whale | The decision is where to allocate paid budget using connected store, ad, and conversion data. Compare pixel and event coverage, identity matching, reporting model, CAPI or ad-platform return paths, and reconciliation process. | Free: $0/monthFoundation: Displayed from $219/month; GMV selection appliesAutomate: Displayed from $749/month; GMV selection applies |
| Cometly | The decision is where to allocate paid budget using connected store, ad, and conversion data. Compare pixel and event coverage, identity matching, reporting model, CAPI or ad-platform return paths, and reconciliation process. | Usage-based: Usage-based |
| Rockerbox | The decision is where to allocate paid budget using connected store, ad, and conversion data. Compare pixel and event coverage, identity matching, reporting model, CAPI or ad-platform return paths, and reconciliation process. | Shopify brand plan: From $150/month |
| Polar Analytics | The team needs a shared ecommerce data layer and recurring reports across sales, marketing, inventory, or finance inputs. Source mapping, transformations, metric definitions, refresh timing, and data ownership decide whether the report is trustworthy. | Core Plan: From $750/month; GMV-based scopeCustom Plan and add-ons: Confirm in sales proposal or order form |
| Daasity | The team needs a shared ecommerce data layer and recurring reports across sales, marketing, inventory, or finance inputs. Source mapping, transformations, metric definitions, refresh timing, and data ownership decide whether the report is trustworthy. | Starter Essentials Self Service: $1,499/monthEssentials Self Service: $1,999/monthEnterprise: Custom quote |
Frequently asked questions
What question is Northbeam designed to answer?
It helps marketing teams examine how channels contribute to ecommerce outcomes and compare budget decisions with several measurement methods. It should be used as decision support, not as the only financial record for a business.
What must be in place before budget decisions use Northbeam?
Advertising spend, ecommerce events, orders, pixel data, tagged traffic and relevant conversion data need consistent definitions. Refund treatment, timezones and finance reconciliation should be agreed before the figures drive budget changes.
What public price is available?
Northbeam lists Starter from $1,500 per month for brands with annual media spend below $1.5 million. Larger media scale uses custom pricing, so the spend definition, platform count and service scope should be confirmed.
Native connections
Install the Northbeam app during onboarding to connect Shopify order data to the Northbeam dashboard.
Northbeam Shopify order connectionSources
User reviews
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Northbeam is the best attribution + modeling tool we have used by far. It's the only tool we have used that allows us to get consistent data across different attribution models and windows. It allows us to understand 1st purchase vs. LTV ROAS. Their customer support is also extremely knowledgeable both technically and about the industry and has helped us do things we had no idea were possible. Highly recommend.
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Have been using Northbeam since it's early days. Love how detailed it is and has allowed us to scale our ads well beyond $1million+ a month in ad spend with its analytics and reporting.