This guide will walk you through the steps to get up and running with Appstack and start measuring the impact of your advertising efforts in less than 10 minutes.

Before starting, ensure you created your Appstack account and verified your email address. If you didn’t create your account, go to this link: https://console.app-stack.tech/auth/signup

StepTaskEstimated time
1Create organization1 min
2Endpoint connection1 min
3Ad networks2 min
4App store connect2 min
5Create mapping2 min

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Create your organization

Before you begin, ensure you have created your Appstack account and verified your email.

After your first login, you will be redirected to:

  • Name your organization.
  • Add your app’s App Store URL.

You can add more apps later.

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Send postbacks to Appstack

You need to configure the Appstack endpoint in your app.

  • The endpoint shares Apple SKAdNetwork postbacks with Appstack.
  • This does not affect your Mobile Measurement Partner (MMP) reporting capabilities.
  • If you’re already sending postbacks to an MMP, you can forward them to Appstack. See send postbacks to Appstack.

Follow these steps to send Apple’s postbacks to Appstack

  1. Select Info.plist in the Project navigator in Xcode. If you are using Expo, you need to edit the app.config.js file. For more information on configuring the Info.plist in Expo, visit the Expo documentation.
  2. Select the Add button (+) beside a key in the property list editor and press Return.
  3. Enter NSAdvertisingAttributionReportEndpoint as the key name.
  4. Set the Type to String in the pop up menu.
  5. Copy and enter the URL below:
See Apple’s guide on Configuring an Advertised App for additional information.
https://ios-appstack.com/
Appstack requires an app release with these changes before receiving data, and the status “Waiting for postbacks” will disappear after the first postback arrives.

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Ad networks

Connect your ad networks to Appstack to start measuring the impact of your advertising efforts.

Currently, Appstack can integrate with Meta Ads, Google Ads, TikTok Ads, and Apple Search Ads.

For each ad network:

  1. Go to Integrations in Appstack.
  2. Connect each integration individually.
You need the proper access level to connect integrations.

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App Store Connect

Connect your App Store Connect account to unlock additional business metrics.

This is recommended to access custom analytics and make unique data analyses such as computing the number of organic installs.

Connect your App Store Connect account