Brij vs. Building in-House

Build your growth strategy, not the tech beneath it.

Building a form is easy. Building the infrastructure to capture, verify, structure, activate, secure, and continuously maintain retail purchase data is not.

Brij gives your team the complete infrastructure to identify retail buyers and turn their purchases into actionable data across your marketing stack.

Trusted by leading omnichannel brands
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SkullcandyCarawayBobbieFeastablesMomofukuMijentaTUSHYBlack+Decker

Brands using Brij have seen:

$208K+
incremental revenue from identified retail & Amazon buyers
35%
email capture rate, with full receipt-level purchase data
+30–50%
lift in ad conversions
+28%
lift in ROAS
+20%
lift in LTV among Brij-identified customers
$150+
incremental revenue per profile captured
The difference

Brij vs. Building It Yourself

Using Brij

When it comes to data capture, Brij enables anyone on your team to create digital experiences using a drag-and-drop builder.

For data activation, Brij's technology handles everything: compliance, receipt verification, data structuring, passing data to your CRM and ad platforms, and more. No ongoing upkeep, QA'ing, or development resources from your team required.

Building In-House

Building in-house isn't as simple as throwing together a landing page with a form, then setting up quick integrations.

Verifying and transforming retail purchase information into an actionable data layer requires significant development resources, along with a thorough QA process and ongoing management as platforms and APIs change.

Brij Build In-House
Launch mobile data capture experiences No-code, pre-optimized experiences Design, develop & QA internally
Verify receipts & purchases Built in Build & maintain internally
Detect potential fraud AI + manual review options Build & maintain internally
Extract & structure receipt data Built in Build extraction & normalization logic
Connect purchases to customer profiles Identity resolution built in Build identity resolution
Send purchase events to Meta, Google & TikTok Native integrations Build each connection separately
Sync data to CRM & lifecycle platforms Native integrations Build each integration separately
Handle event formatting, hashing & deduplication Built in Build & continuously QA
Manage consent & data activation rules Built in Design & maintain internally
Adapt to platform API changes Managed by Brij Engineering owns indefinitely
Optimize data capture conversion Proven, optimized experiences Test & optimize from scratch
Ongoing monitoring & maintenance Managed by Brij Your team owns it
Engineering resources required to operate None Ongoing
THE TECHNICAL BREAKDOWN

Learn how Brij transforms raw retail data into signal.

Capturing retail purchase data is only the first step. Before ad platforms can actually use that data, it has to be verified, cleaned, structured, matched, formatted, and continuously maintained. Brij handles that entire process for you.

01

Brij turns messy retail purchase data into clean, usable signal.

Raw retail data isn’t ready to send directly to an ad platform. Brij first transforms it into a verified, structured purchase record that Meta, Google, and TikTok can actually understand.

In addition to cleaning and structuring data, Brij verifies purchase data to confirm each transaction is legitimate before it becomes marketing signal.

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Receipt Analytics dashboard — real-time, receipt-level purchase data
Resolve customer identity
Consolidate repeat registrations and purchases into a single customer profile rather than treating every interaction as a new shopper.
Normalize and secure identifiers
Standardize customer information such as email and phone number, then hash applicable identifiers with SHA-256 before transmission.
Remove duplicate conversions
Cross-check against ecommerce purchases and suppress DTC transactions already reported by your pixel so the same sale isn't counted twice.
Classify and enrich purchase data
Preserve retailer and channel information, assign purchase value, and structure product and transaction data so it remains useful downstream.
02

Brij builds the right data pass for every ad platform.

There is no universal format for sending retail purchase signal; Meta, Google, and TikTok each have their own APIs, authentication models, payload schemas, event taxonomies, validation rules, matching methodologies, and requirements for how an offline purchase should be classified.

Brij handles those custom configurations for you, structuring events for each destination to be used for audience building, attribution, and conversion optimization.

Brij Signal — verified retail purchase forwarded to Meta, TikTok, and Google
Platform-specific event formatting
Brij builds the payload each destination expects, with the appropriate event type, timestamp, action source, value, transaction metadata, and identity parameters.
Biddable event configuration
Events are structured and named so the platform can actually optimize campaigns toward them, not merely record that they occurred.
Identity matching
Brij sends properly normalized and hashed identifiers, along with available session identifiers, to maximize the platform’s ability to match each purchase to a real user.
Transaction-level deduplication
Deduplication prevents the same transaction from being counted multiple times across browser, server, and offline event streams.
Audience-ready purchase data
Brij gives platforms confirmed retail buyers that can be used to suppress existing customers, build lookalikes, retarget purchasers, and improve acquisition.
03

Brij handles ongoing QA, updates, and compliance needs for you.

Ad platforms continually change their APIs, authentication requirements, event schemas, conversion tracking systems, validation rules, and offline data infrastructure.

Brij handles this work, so your team isn't responsible for catching those changes, rebuilding integrations, diagnosing errors, and continually QAing the data flowing into every destination.

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Brij LTV Engine — in-store purchase becomes a verified profile that triggers Klaviyo and Attentive flows
Ongoing platform updates, QA, and monitoring
When platforms change how they accepts or processes data, Brij makes the necessary updates, then tests extensively to ensure high-quality matching and optimization.
Consent-aware data activation
Brij can use the consent preferences captured by your existing CMP to determine whether an event should be sent to each individual ad platform, silencing when the required consent signal is not present.
Secure data transmission to each platform
Applicable customer identifiers such as email addresses and phone numbers are hashed before being transmitted to advertising platforms.
Customer proof

What brands say about Brij

Brij is giving us visibility into consumers we previously couldn't see. By capturing registrations from retail purchases and feeding that data back into our marketing ecosystem, we're improving our paid media efficiency across Google, TikTok and Meta, and building a more complete view of our consumer. Those insights are now shaping everything from CRM strategy to future product development.

Evin Catlett
Evin Catlett
Global VP, Ecommerce & Growth Marketing, Skullcandy

Brij has become an important part of our retail growth strategy. Beyond the rebate itself, we've gained valuable insights into shopper behavior and retailer performance, helping us make smarter decisions across sales and marketing.

Angus Rittenburg
Angus Rittenburg
CEO, Wynk
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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What brands ask when evaluting Brij vs an in-house build.

We have a strong engineering team. Why can't we just build this?
You can. The teams that have tried tend to underestimate the same two things: receipt data is much messier than a demo makes it look, and a Conversions API integration is a pipeline to operate rather than a call to write.

The full build is receipt verification and fraud review, retailer and SKU parsing, conversion-optimized capture, server-side normalization and hashing, correct event typing and deduplication, three ad platform APIs plus CRM and email/SMS, consent gating per destination, and continuous QA. Then someone owns all of it indefinitely. Brij is that system, already in production and already maintained.
Isn't building internally cheaper than paying for another SaaS platform?
That comparison often excludes the largest costs of an internal build: engineering prioritization, development, QA, security, integrations, ongoing maintenance, and the opportunity cost of delaying launch.

An internal solution also becomes a product your company owns indefinitely. Every API change, bug, integration update, new destination, and feature request becomes part of your engineering roadmap.

Brij lets you deploy existing infrastructure instead.
How long does Brij take to stand up?
Just a few days. Capture experiences launch without engineering support, and Signal connects to the ad accounts and CRM you already have.
We already collect product registrations. Can we keep our own capture and use Brij just for the data pass?
Yes. Brij Signal can work with the purchase and registration data you already collect, so you keep the front end you built and use Brij for verification, identity handling, and the platform connections. Ask your rep about your specific setup.
What happens when an ad platform changes its API?
With an internal build, your engineering team owns the update.

With Brij, maintaining those integrations is part of our product. Your marketing team continues using the data while Brij manages the underlying infrastructure.
Why is receipt processing so complicated?
Retail receipts weren't designed to function as marketing data. Formatting, product descriptions, transaction structures, retailer conventions, discounts, and other fields vary significantly.

Brij turns that inconsistent input into verified, structured purchase data tied to an identified customer so it can actually be used by your marketing stack.
Do we still own the data if we use Brij?
Yes. Your brand owns the customer data collected through Brij. Brij is the infrastructure that helps you capture, structure, understand, and activate it.
Is Brij secure? What about compliance?
Brij is SOC 2 compliant and GDPR/CCPA compliant, and hashes identifiers with SHA-256 before they reach an ad platform. Consent-gated sending means an event reaches a destination only when the consent your CMP recorded permits it. Legal compliance under the CCPA, CIPA, and other applicable law remains your brand's responsibility, with your own counsel.
How does Brij help prevent fraudulent submissions?
Brij has built-in systems for validating submissions across use cases including rebates, product registrations, and warranties. Brands can use AI-powered verification to review submissions automatically, manually review cases, or combine both approaches depending on their program requirements.

This helps prevent suspicious or invalid submissions from becoming payouts, customer records, or downstream marketing signal.
Does Brij replace our existing tech stack?
No. Brij is designed to make your existing stack more valuable.

Brij captures and structures retail and marketplace customer data, then makes it available to the tools your teams already use, including advertising platforms, CRM, email/SMS, commerce, and other systems.