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  • Destination Info
  • Getting Started
  • Conversion Access Token
  • Ad Account ID
  • Enable the Pinterest Ads Destination
  • Enable Pinterest Ads Events
  • Put Pinterest Ads Destination in Test Mode
  • Confirm and Validate Conversions in Pinterest

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  4. Pinterest Ads (Beta)

Pinterest Ads Quick Start Guide

Send advertising events directly to Pinterest Ads Conversions.

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Destination Info

  • Supports calls

  • Supports

  • Supports forwarding from the

  • Refer to this destination as pinterest-ads in the

  • Connection Modes:

Client-side
Server-side

Web

Mobile

Server

Getting Started

This guide enables you to fully enable the Pinterest Ads destination for your site. The guide assumes you have the Freshpaint snippet installed on your site, if you do not please follow.

    • If in HIPAA mode enable the required/recommended fields

Conversion Access Token

To configure your Pinterest Ads destination, you'll first need to create a conversion access token.

  1. Open the menu in the top left corner.

  2. In the Business column on the right click Conversions.

  3. On the Conversions page in the left menu click API for Conversions > Conversion Access Token.

  4. Click Generate New Token.

  5. Copy the new conversion access token.

  6. Take notice that you can also see your ad account ID in the paragraph, for example the demonstration ad account ID is Freshpaint (555666677123).

Ad Account ID

To configure your Pinterest Ads destination events, you'll need to find your Ad Account ID.

  1. Open the menu in the top left corner.

  2. In the Business column on the right click Conversions.

  3. On the Conversions page in the left menu click API for Conversions > Conversion Access Token.

  4. Copy the ad account ID in the paragraph, the Freshpaint ad account ID is 555666677123 .

  5. You can also copy the Ad Account ID from the URL.

Enable the Pinterest Ads Destination

To enable the Pinterest Ads destination you simply need to enable and configure it just how you would any other destination.

  1. Search for the Pinterest Ads advertising destination.

  2. Enable Pinterest Ads.

  3. Paste in your Conversion Access Token and Ad Account ID in the integration settings.

  4. Optional: Customers that use HIPAA mode should then configure recommended properties and enable action_source and $epik.

Enable Pinterest Ads Events

    • In this example we are going to create an event called page_visit triggering on every page view for demonstration purposes.

  1. At the bottom of the event page enable Pinterest Ads.

Put Pinterest Ads Destination in Test Mode

  1. Click the Create New button.

  2. Select Modify Data.

    • Select your event (in this demo we will select page_visit) .

    • Select Pinterest Ads for the destination.

  3. Set the following values for the transform fields.

    • Send Constant Property for transform type.

    • test for property name.

    • true or another valid action source (See here for list of valid action sources) for the property value.

    • True/False for the property type.

  4. When you are done testing delete this transformation.

Confirm and Validate Conversions in Pinterest

  1. Open the test event panel on Pinterest Business page.

    1. Open the menu in the top left corner.

    2. In the Business column on the right click Conversion.

    3. Click Test Events.

  2. Trigger your event (Our demonstration event is page_visit).

  3. Select Pinterest Ads and verify your event went through.

    • This can take up to 90 seconds.

  4. Verify the event is marked as OK or resolve missing property issues.

  5. Verify the event appears on the Pinterest test event page.

  6. Delete the test transformation, otherwise real events will not send to Pinterest.

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Navigate to the Freshpaint .

Navigate to the .

Select/create an event with a valid name (See list of ).

Navigate to .

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On a new tab navigate to your site and visit a page that should trigger your event (For demonstration purposes we will use ).

Add a query parameter called epik to the URL (Example: ).

Navigate to the .

Sign in to Pinterest Ads
Sign in to Pinterest Ads
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Event Library
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Sign in to Pinterest Ads
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https://www.freshhealth.co/?epik=TEST
Event Verification tool
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HIPAA mode
Google Tag Manager Integration
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this guide
Enable the Freshpaint Pinterest Ads destination
Find/create your Conversion Access Token
Find/create your Ad Account ID
Create a valid event and enable Pinterest for this event
Set up action source
Set Pinterest Ads into test mode
Confirm and validate events
Put the Pinterest Ads destination into test mode
valid names here
Once you generate the new token you can copy it into a safe document
Take note that you can see the Ad Account ID 555666677123
Take note of the Freshpaint Ad Account ID in this text.
Enabling Recommended Props
Creating an event with a valid name
Enabling Pinterest Ads for the event
Enabling test mode
Our Pinterest Ads event went through smoothly with all required properties in place
Our event is looking good on the Pinterest test event page