[GA4] Set up a recent purchasers audience

Follow these instructions to create an audience of users who have completed a purchase on your website or app in the last 7 days.

You can use this audience to exclude recent purchasers from your ad campaigns.

Watch a short video (1:23) to see how to to create a recent purchasers audience in Google Analytics.

 

Set up a recent purchasers audience

Before you begin

To create the audience you need to:

• Have the Editor role for the property in which you want to create the audience
• Set up a purchase or ecommerce_purchase event for your website or app, and/or have the in_app_purchase automatically collected event for your app

Create the audience

1. In Admin, under Data display, click Audiences.
2. Click New audience.
3. Under Use a reference, go to General and select Purchasers.

   

4. Next to in_app_purchase go to + Add parameter > Other > Event count.
5. Click the Time period toggle to ON.
6. Under Time period enter 7 Days and select Most recent time period.

   

7. Click Apply.
8. Repeat steps 4-6 for purchase and ecommerce_purchase so that each purchase type is limited to the last 7-day period.
9. Set the Membership duration to 7 days.

   

10. Rename your audience and change your description to something you'll find memorable. Click Save.

    

11. Your new audience appears at the top of the management table.

    

Use the audience in Google Ads

To use the audience in Google Ads you need to:

• Activate Google Signals for the Analytics property
• Link your Google Ads and Analytics accounts and enable personalized advertising