Chapter 01
Ecommerce ad agency work in Nepal: your product feed is the campaign
As an ecommerce ad agency, the first thing we tell Nepali store owners is that standard search advertising is built around keywords you choose. Ecommerce advertising, Google Shopping, Performance Max for retail, and Meta catalogue ads, is built primarily around your product feed, the structured file listing every product’s title, price, category, image and availability. Get the feed wrong, and no amount of bid management fixes it, because the platform is showing your product for whatever it thinks that feed data describes, accurately or not.
We manage ecommerce advertising for Nepali online stores starting with the feed itself, then layer campaign strategy, bidding and creative on top of a foundation that is actually accurate.
What we check
Feed accuracy, category mapping, ROAS targets, abandoned cart retargeting and inventory sync
Why it matters
Most ecommerce ad problems trace back to the feed, not the campaign settings
What changes
Products shown for the right searches, priced and stocked accurately, at a profitable ROAS
Chapter 02
The product feed: the single most under-managed asset in ecommerce advertising
A product feed submitted to Google Merchant Center or Meta Commerce Manager needs specific, structured fields done properly: a title that actually matches how people search (not just the internal SKU name), the correct product category, accurate price and availability kept in sync with your actual inventory, and a GTIN or brand identifier where applicable, since Google increasingly deprioritises or disapproves listings missing this data.
We regularly find feeds with vague titles copied straight from a supplier catalogue, categories left as the platform’s generic default, and price or stock data that has drifted out of sync with the actual store, sometimes advertising a product that sold out weeks earlier. Each of these individually caps performance. Together, they explain a large share of the underperforming Shopping and catalogue campaigns we audit.
Chapter 03
ROAS and margin-based bidding: optimising for profit, not just revenue
Return on ad spend, ROAS, revenue generated per rupee of ad spend, is the headline metric most ecommerce ad platforms report, and it can still mislead if margin is not part of the equation. A product with thin margins needs a meaningfully higher ROAS to be genuinely profitable than a high-margin item does, and a campaign optimising purely toward revenue, without margin data, can happily scale spend on low-margin products that generate impressive top-line numbers while barely breaking even, or losing money, once real costs are factored in.
We set target ROAS per product category based on actual margin, not a single blanket target across the whole catalogue, so the campaign’s own optimisation is working toward genuine profitability, not just a bigger revenue number.
Product Feed Optimisation
Titles, categories, GTINs and pricing structured properly across Merchant Center and Meta Commerce Manager.
Google Shopping and Performance Max
Feed-driven campaigns built to show the right product for the right search.
Meta Catalogue Ads
Dynamic product ads and retargeting synced directly to your live catalogue.
Abandoned Cart Retargeting
Campaigns reaching shoppers who added to cart but did not complete checkout.
Margin-Based ROAS Targets
Bidding set against actual profitability per product category, not a blanket revenue target.
Inventory Sync and Feed Health
Stock and pricing kept accurate in real time so ads never promote sold-out products.
Revenue and ROAS Reporting
Clear reporting tied to actual sales, not just clicks and impressions.
Chapter 04
Running Google Shopping and Meta catalogue ads together, deliberately
Google Shopping captures active search intent, someone typing a product name or category directly. Meta catalogue ads work more on discovery and retargeting, showing products to people based on browsing behaviour and past site visits rather than an active search. Running both from the same underlying feed data, rather than treating them as two separate, disconnected campaigns, keeps messaging and pricing consistent and lets each platform reinforce the other across a buyer’s full path to purchase.
Feed-driven ecommerce ads vs standard keyword-based search ads
| Factor | Standard search ads | Feed-driven ecommerce ads |
|---|---|---|
| What drives targeting | Keywords you choose | Product feed data (title, category, attributes) |
| Where problems usually originate | Keyword and bid strategy | Feed accuracy and structure |
| Creative shown | Ad copy you write | Product image, price and title from the feed |
| Key optimisation metric | Cost per lead | ROAS by product and margin |
Our framework
The 3-Pillar Ecommerce Ad Agency Framework we run every store on
Every account is scored against three pillars before we scale spend.
- Feed Accuracy : Are titles, categories, pricing and stock status genuinely correct and current?
- Margin-Aware Bidding : Is the campaign optimising toward real profitability, not just top-line revenue?
- Cross-Platform Consistency : Do Google Shopping and Meta catalogue ads reinforce each other from the same clean feed?
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Abandoned cart retargeting: recovering sales that almost happened
A meaningful share of online shoppers add a product to cart and leave without completing checkout, price hesitation, a distraction, an unexpected shipping cost revealed too late in the process. Dynamic retargeting ads showing that exact abandoned product, sometimes alongside a gentle nudge like a limited-time offer, recover a genuine share of these near-misses at a lower cost per result than acquiring a completely new customer. We set this up as a standard campaign type on every ecommerce ads engagement with sufficient traffic to support it.
Chapter 06
Performance Max for retail: powerful once the feed can support it
Google’s Performance Max for retail campaigns rely almost entirely on feed signals, historical performance data and audience signals to automate targeting across Search, Shopping, Display and YouTube simultaneously. This works well once a feed is clean and there is enough conversion history to inform it, and performs poorly, sometimes wastefully, on a messy feed or a brand-new account with no data yet. We sequence this correctly: feed and tracking fixed first, standard Shopping campaigns establishing a data baseline, then Performance Max layered on once the foundation actually supports it.
Chapter 07
Product images: the creative asset that matters more here than ad copy
In Shopping and catalogue ads, the product image is doing most of the persuasive work an ad headline would do in a standard search ad, since the format is built around showing the product directly. A low-resolution, poorly lit or cluttered product photo consistently underperforms a clean, well-lit image on a neutral background, even when everything else about the listing is identical. We review and, where needed, recommend or coordinate image improvements as part of feed optimisation, since this is genuinely one of the higher-leverage, lower-cost fixes available.
Common ecommerce ads mistakes we find in Nepal, and the fix
| Mistake | Impact | Fix |
|---|---|---|
| Vague product titles copied from supplier | Shown for irrelevant searches or not shown at all | Titles rewritten around how buyers actually search |
| Stock and price out of sync with the store | Ads promote sold-out or mispriced products | Real-time inventory sync configured |
| Blanket ROAS target across all products | Low-margin products scaled unprofitably | Margin-based ROAS targets per category |
| No abandoned cart retargeting | Near-miss sales never recovered | Dynamic retargeting campaign set up |
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Checkout speed and hosting: the final mile most ad accounts never get to see
A shopper who clicks a Shopping ad, lands on a fast product page, adds to cart, and then hits a slow, clunky checkout process abandons at a genuinely higher rate than one who sails through cleanly, and this loss happens entirely after the ad has already done its job and been paid for. Checkout page speed, payment gateway reliability and how smoothly the cart syncs with your inventory in real time all sit downstream of hosting infrastructure most ad managers never look at, because it is simply not their part of the stack.
This gap between “the ad account looks healthy” and “the store actually converts” is exactly where a lot of Nepali ecommerce ad spend quietly underperforms, not because the campaigns are wrong, but because the technical foundation underneath them is not built to convert the traffic they are successfully generating.
We check checkout and site speed as part of every ecommerce ads engagement, coordinated with our broader ecommerce SEO work. Where your hosting and platform setup is a good fit, we can bring server and infrastructure management under our own service directly so speed and reliability are actively maintained, not just checked once. Where it is not a fit for what we offer, we will say so and point you toward hosting genuinely suited to a high-traffic checkout flow.
Chapter 09
Seasonal ecommerce advertising: Dashain, Tihar and New Year need feed prep, not just budget prep
Beyond the budget increases most stores already plan for Dashain, Tihar and New Year, seasonal success in feed-driven advertising depends heavily on preparation done weeks in advance: seasonal collections built and submitted to the feed early enough to be indexed and trusted by the algorithm before the actual demand spike, promotional pricing and sale badges reflected accurately in the feed itself, not just on the site, and stock levels realistic enough to avoid advertising products that sell out on day one of the sale. We plan feed and campaign preparation on Nepal’s own seasonal calendar specifically.
Chapter 10
Inventory sync: the quiet failure that wastes spend and frustrates customers
A feed that updates stock status once a day, or worse, manually and irregularly, can keep advertising a sold-out product for hours after it actually ran out, generating clicks and cost with no possibility of a sale, and creating a frustrating experience for the customer who clicked expecting to buy. We set up real-time or near-real-time inventory sync wherever the platform supports it, so the feed reflects what is actually available, not what was available when someone last manually updated it.
Chapter 11
Daraz versus your own store: an advertising budget question, not just a listing question
Many Nepali sellers run both a Daraz storefront and their own site, and the advertising question that follows is where to put budget. Daraz’s own internal advertising tools promote listings within the marketplace itself, competing directly against other Daraz sellers, including sometimes cheaper competitors selling the identical product. Google Shopping and Meta catalogue ads for your own store build a customer relationship and brand presence you own outright, without a marketplace commission on every resulting sale. We help think through this allocation based on your actual margins and growth goals, rather than defaulting to whichever channel is easiest to set up.
Chapter 12
Launching a new product: a different campaign approach than an established bestseller
A brand-new product has no purchase or click history for the algorithm to learn from, which means it competes at a real disadvantage against established products in the same automated campaigns until it accumulates enough data. We often run new product launches in a dedicated campaign with a temporarily adjusted ROAS target, deliberately accepting a lower efficiency for a few weeks to build the performance data the product needs before folding it into standard automated bidding.
Typical before and after from a Queens Digital ecommerce ads engagement
| Metric | Before | After 60-90 days |
|---|---|---|
| Products disapproved or under-shown due to feed issues | Often 15-30% of catalogue | Under 5% |
| Return on ad spend (ROAS) | Baseline | Typically 30-60% higher |
| Abandoned cart recovery campaign | Rarely running | Standard, ongoing |
| Inventory sync accuracy | Manual, often delayed | Real-time or near-real-time |
Chapter 13
Invalid clicks and competitor interference in ecommerce campaigns
Ecommerce campaigns are not immune to click fraud, and in competitive product categories we occasionally see patterns consistent with a competitor repeatedly clicking ads purely to drain a rival’s daily budget. We monitor click patterns for anomalies and file invalid click claims where the evidence supports it, alongside general account health monitoring.
Colleges & Education
Abroad-study, universities, language institutes
Law Firms
Litigation, corporate law, immigration practices
Real Estate
Developers, brokers, property visualisation
Software & SaaS
Nepali product teams selling regionally
Hospitality
Hotels, restaurants, cafΓ©s, resorts
Automotive
Dealers, test-drive conversions, after-sales
Health Clinics
Hospitals, dental, dermatology, fertility
Banking & Finance
Banks, remittance, wallets, insurance
Consultancies
Management, audit, strategy practices
Non-Profits
Awareness, donation-driven, multilingual
Energy
Hydropower, solar, infrastructure
iGaming
Regulated gaming and entertainment brands
Travel & Trekking
Adventure operators competing globally
E-commerce & D2C
Daraz competitors, fashion, electronics
Chapter 14
Reporting: ROAS and revenue by product category, not just overall spend
We report ROAS, revenue and margin-adjusted performance broken down by product category, not one blended account-wide number, so you can see clearly which parts of your catalogue are genuinely profitable in ads and which need a different approach entirely.
Week 1
1 weekFeed and Account Audit
Full product feed, tracking and existing campaign review.
Week 2-3
2 weeksFeed Fix and Campaign Build
Feed corrected, inventory sync configured, Shopping and catalogue campaigns launched.
Ongoing
WeeklyROAS and Feed Health Management
Weekly review of feed health, ROAS by category and campaign performance.
Ongoing
MonthlyReporting and Seasonal Planning
Monthly report on ROAS and revenue, with seasonal campaigns planned in advance.
Written & maintained by
Kalapati Kumari Bhatta, Founder, Queens Digital Agency
Over a decade of hands-on digital marketing experience specialising in ecommerce advertising for Nepali online stores, across Google Shopping, Performance Max and Meta catalogue campaigns.
Last reviewed: 2026 . Maintained by the team at Queens Digital Agency
Chapter 15
What an ecommerce ads engagement with us looks like, and what it costs
Ecommerce advertising is genuinely ongoing work, feeds need maintaining as your catalogue changes, seasonal campaigns need planning ahead of demand spikes, and ROAS targets need periodic review as margins shift. We price it as a monthly management fee, scaled primarily by catalogue size since that most directly drives the volume of feed and campaign work involved, and as with all our PPC work, this is a flat fee, never a percentage of your ad spend.
Starter Catalogue
from NPR 25,000 / month, flat fee
Stores with up to roughly 100 SKUs, one platform to start.
- Full product feed and account audit
- Feed optimisation across your catalogue
- Google Shopping or Meta catalogue ads (one platform)
- Weekly feed health and ROAS review
- Flat fee, not a percentage of your ad spend
Large Catalogue
Custom / month
500+ SKUs, or stores selling across Daraz and an owned site simultaneously.
- Everything in Growing Store
- Performance Max sequencing once data supports it
- Seasonal campaign planning around Dashain, Tihar and New Year
- Priced against catalogue size, quoted after a quick store review call
Chapter 16
How we compare to other ecommerce ad providers in Nepal
Most ecommerce ad management in Nepal treats Shopping and catalogue campaigns like any other PPC account, adjusting bids without ever touching the underlying feed that actually determines what gets shown and to whom. We start with the feed on every engagement, since no amount of bid or budget management fixes a fundamentally broken product data source.
What is usually included, provider by provider type
| Included | Generic PPC freelancer | Percentage-of-spend agency | Queens Digital |
|---|---|---|---|
| Product feed audit and optimisation | Rare | Sometimes | Every engagement |
| Margin-based ROAS targets | Rare | Rare | Standard |
| Abandoned cart retargeting | Rare | Sometimes | Included |
| Fee structure | Varies | Percentage of ad spend | Flat fee |
Chapter 17
The results we track, and report to you
We report ROAS, revenue and margin-adjusted profitability by product category, alongside feed health, so you can see exactly which parts of your catalogue are earning their ad spend.
30-60%
Typical ROAS improvement within 60-90 days
Under 5%
Feed disapproval rate we target across a managed catalogue
Flat fee
Our pricing model, never a percentage of your ad spend
We had no idea a third of our catalogue was barely showing up in Shopping because of bad category mapping. Fixing the feed alone changed our results more than any bid adjustment.
Setting different ROAS targets by product category instead of one number across everything made our ad spend actually profitable, not just busy.
Chapter 18
Trusted by teams across Nepal and beyond
We manage ecommerce advertising for online stores across fashion, electronics, home goods and specialty retail in Nepal, alongside platform and marketplace partnerships that keep us current on how Google Shopping and Meta catalogue ads actually behave in 2026.
Start with a free audit
Let us show you what your product feed is actually costing you.
No obligation. We will send you a written summary of your feed and campaign gaps, in plain English.
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Ecommerce ads reward the boring, unglamorous feed work
Nobody gets excited about product titles and category mapping, and that is exactly why it stays broken on so many accounts. The stores that consistently win in Shopping and catalogue ads are rarely the ones with the cleverest bidding strategy, they are the ones whose product data was actually correct in the first place.
An ecommerce ad agency manages your product feed (titles, images, pricing, availability, category mapping so Google and Meta can actually match products to shoppers), campaign setup (Google Shopping, Performance Max for retail, Meta catalogue and dynamic ads), and ongoing management (bid adjustments by product margin, seasonal promotion pushes, feed error monitoring, monthly reporting on revenue and ROAS, not just clicks). We manage this under one flat monthly fee tiered by catalogue size, never a percentage of ad spend.
Yes. We are a Kathmandu-based ecommerce ad agency but manage Google Shopping and Meta catalogue ads for online stores shipping across Nepal. Feed setup and delivery messaging are adjusted to match each store’s actual coverage area rather than assuming valley-only fulfilment.
Feed-driven ad formats show products based on structured feed data, title, category, price, stock, rather than keywords you choose. A broken feed caps performance no bid adjustment can fix.
Return on ad spend, revenue per rupee spent. A single blanket target across your whole catalogue can scale low-margin products unprofitably, so we set targets based on actual margin per category.
Yes, from the same underlying feed, so pricing and messaging stay consistent and each platform reinforces the other across a buyer’s path to purchase.
Dynamic ads showing shoppers the exact product they added to cart but did not purchase, typically converting at a lower cost than acquiring a completely new customer.
Yes, we help think through budget allocation between Daraz’s internal advertising and your own store’s ads based on your actual margins and growth goals.
Feed-related improvements often show within 2 to 4 weeks once Google or Meta re-crawls the corrected data, with a stable, optimised ROAS typically taking 60 to 90 days.
No, we price ecommerce ads management as a flat monthly fee scaled by catalogue size, so our incentive is aligned with your profitability, not your budget size.
Ongoing. Feeds need maintaining as catalogues change and seasonal campaigns need planning ahead, which is why we price it as a monthly management fee.