15 Hours/Week Saved: The Ad Reporting Automation That Actually Works🔥

You know that feeling when you spend hours each day manually pulling ad data from Google and Meta, then typing it into your CRM like some kind of digital caveman?

Yeah, my client was doing exactly that. Every. Single. Day.

So I built them an automation that does it all while they sleep.

Here's What This Thing Does:

The Morning Trigger Every day at 8 AM, this workflow wakes up automatically. No buttons to press, no remembering to run reports. It just goes.

Grabbing the Google Ads Numbers First stop: Google Ads API. It pulls yesterday's campaign data - clicks, impressions, cost, conversions, the whole nine yards. If something goes wrong, it doesn't crash. It just keeps moving.

Snatching Meta Ads Performance At the same time (because why wait?), it hits Facebook's Graph API and grabs all the Meta campaign data. Spend, leads, reach, frequency - everything from yesterday gets pulled in.

The Smart Processing Part Here's where it gets interesting. Two separate code blocks take all that messy API data and transform it into something actually useful:

Calculates CPC, CPA, and ROAS on the fly
Extracts lead conversions from Meta's confusing action types
Converts Google's weird "micro" currency format into normal numbers
Standardizes everything so it all matches up perfectly

Merging It All Together Both data streams meet up in one place. Google campaigns and Meta campaigns, all in one clean dataset, ready to go.

Pushing to Their CRM Final stop: Zoho CRM. Every single campaign performance gets sent over as a clean record with the date, campaign name, and all the metrics that actually matter for decision making.

The Confirmation Little completion log at the end so we know it all went through.

The Results They're Actually Seeing:

My client used to spend 2-3 hours every morning doing this manually. That's 15-20 hours per week just moving numbers around.

Now? It's done before they even open their laptop.

But here's what really changed for them:

They're making faster decisions. When your data is already sitting in your CRM by the time you start work, you can actually analyze trends instead of just collecting numbers.

Their campaign optimization cycles went from weekly to daily. Why? Because they're not exhausted from data entry anymore. They have energy left to actually look at what the numbers are telling them.

They caught a poorly performing Meta campaign on day two instead of week two. That alone saved them more money than this automation cost to build.

Their team meetings got shorter. No more "let me pull that up real quick" followed by 20 minutes of spreadsheet fumbling. Everything's already there.

And honestly, the biggest win? My client told me they don't dread Monday mornings anymore. Used to be their whole morning was this tedious data collection ritual. Now they can actually start their week doing the work that matters.

The Bottom Line:

Built this in n8n. Took a day to set up properly. Saves them 15+ hours every week.

That's 60+ hours saved every month. Over 700 hours saved per year.

That's not just time saved. That's a whole person's worth of work hours freed up to actually grow the business instead of just reporting on it.

That's the kind of automation that actually moves the needle.

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