Dashboard refresh vs real-time postback: tracking your signups

Dashboard refresh vs real-time postback: tracking your signups

New to tracking? You need to know when someone subscribes. Two ways programs tell you.

— Dashboard stats: you log in and see numbers, often delayed by hours or a day.
— Postback (also called server-to-server): the program pings your tool the instant a sale happens.

For a beginner, the dashboard is plenty. Postbacks matter only once you're paying for ads and need to know within seconds which campaign worked.

In plain English: a dashboard is checking your mailbox once a day; a postback is a doorbell that rings the moment mail arrives.

Example: promoting one tool to a newsletter? Daily dashboard numbers are fine. Running paid traffic across 5 angles? A postback tells you which angle earned the $6/month customer.

Try today: open your program dashboard and find when stats last updated.