CPA
AdvertisingDefinition
CPA (cost per acquisition) is what you pay in advertising for each conversion: total spend divided by conversions. If $1,000 of ads produced 50 trials, CPA is $20. It is the efficiency metric for campaigns whose goal is actions rather than revenue.
CPA only means something against value: a $200 CPA is cheap for a $5,000 customer and fatal for a $50 one. Teams set target CPA from lifetime value and margin, then let platforms bid toward it.
Watch the definition of “acquisition”. A form fill, a trial, and a paying customer are different events with different worth; optimizing to the shallow one buys volume that never converts downstream.
How Savra puts it to work
Savra reads your live Google Ads data and flags CPA problems inside its 190+ check ad health score: wasted spend, weak conversion setups, and campaigns bidding toward the wrong event.
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What is the difference between CPA and CAC?
CPA measures cost per conversion for a campaign (often pre-revenue events like trials); CAC measures the fully loaded cost to win a paying customer across all channels.
How do I lower CPA?
Tighten targeting, cut non-converting placements, fix landing page friction, and feed platforms a conversion event that predicts revenue.
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