Excel & printable planners · GA4 & GTM guides for small shops

Simple planners for real life.Practical tracking for real businesses.

I make calm, editable Excel & printable planners, and practical GA4 & GTM guides for small shops and marketers who want clear steps for tracking clicks, forms and purchases.

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Planners & Worksheets

Wedding, trip, work and daily planners as printable PDFs and fully editable Excel sheets.

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Tracking Guides for Small Shops

GA4 & GTM setup for Shopify, Wix, Squarespace, BigCommerce and WordPress. Track what matters: clicks, form submissions and purchases.

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Planners & Excel Worksheets

All available as instant downloads on Etsy. Excel versions include formulas and dashboards.

6 products · Excel + Printable
Excel · Editable

Wedding Planner

Budget, guests and vendors — one clear sheet.

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Excel · Editable

International Trip Planner

Flights, stays and itinerary with checklist.

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Excel · Editable

Professional Work Planner

Goals, projects and weekly reviews, minimal.

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Printable · Undated

Whimsical Yearly Planner

Soft yearly overview to print and use freely.

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Printable · Daily

Little Joys Planner

Gratitude, habits and small wins each day.

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Excel + Printable

Year End Reset Workbook

Seven sections to reflect and plan next year.

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GTM & GA4 Guides for Small Advertisers

Practical, step-by-step guides for people who need to get tracking working — without digging through pages of documentation to find the one implementation detail they actually need.

10 planned guides · Core tracking + platform-specific
Why these guides?

There is no shortage of tagging documentation. The hard part is finding the right part.

Google's documentation is valuable, and there are countless tutorials, articles and videos about GA4, Google Ads and Google Tag Manager. But when you are trying to fix one specific tracking problem, you can still end up working through a lot of technical information, different implementation methods and platform-specific instructions before you get to the step you actually need.

A Little Simpler guides are built to make that process more direct. They are based on nearly a decade of practical experience supporting advertisers — from smaller businesses to larger organisations — with Google tagging, conversion measurement and troubleshooting.

Each guide focuses on the implementation itself: what to check, where to look, what to configure and how to test it. And every guide includes one implementation question by email if you get stuck on an issue covered by the guide.

01Find the relevant steps faster
02Follow practical CMS-specific instructions
03Know what to test before calling your setup complete
04Ask one implementation question if you get stuck
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Core GA4 & Google Ads Tracking

GTM + Code

Track Clicks, Forms & Purchases for Google Ads & GA4

Set up common click, form and purchase tracking through GTM or directly with code, with practical testing steps.

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Google Ads

Enhanced Conversions for Google Ads

Set up, configure and test Enhanced Conversions so you can verify that the implementation is working as expected.

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GA4 + Google Ads

Google Ads vs GA4 Reporting: Understanding the Differences

Understand why Google Ads and GA4 numbers can differ and how to compare reporting without treating every difference as a tagging error.

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Troubleshooting

Why Your Google Ads or GA4 Tagging Isn't Working

A practical troubleshooting guide for tags that do not fire, fire incorrectly, or produce missing or unexpected data.

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Platform-Specific Tagging Guides

Shopify

Shopify Tagging Guide for Google Ads & GA4

Practical Shopify implementation guidance for clicks, forms and purchases using GTM and the options available on the platform.

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WordPress

WordPress Tagging Guide for Google Ads & GA4

Work through common WordPress tagging setups and identify where GTM, site code or existing integrations fit.

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Wix

Wix Tagging Guide for Google Ads & GA4

Platform-specific steps for implementing and checking common Google Ads and GA4 tracking on Wix.

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Squarespace

Squarespace Tagging Guide for Google Ads & GA4

Practical guidance for common Squarespace tagging requirements, implementation options and testing.

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BigCommerce

BigCommerce Tagging Guide for Google Ads & GA4

Work through common BigCommerce tracking implementations and verify that the right data reaches Google tools.

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Complete Guide Bundle

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GA4 & GTM Tracking Guide Bundle

All core tracking and platform-specific guides in one collection, covering Google Ads, GA4, GTM, Shopify, WordPress, Wix, Squarespace and BigCommerce.

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For guide buyers

One-time implementation question

Each guide includes one-time support for a limited set of implementation difficulties related to the guide you purchased.

01 · Difficulty finding the right selector.
02 · Correct selector, but the tag is not firing or is duplicating in multiple places.
03 · Unable to find a specific target, variable, trigger, option or setting mentioned in the guide.
04 · Unable to identify the correct event, variable or Data Layer value for the purchase setup described in the guide.

Not included: full implementation, account audits, custom development, or general GTM, GA4 or Google Ads consulting.

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Guides are implementation aids, not a substitute for platform research. CMS interfaces, integrations, checkout architecture and tracking capabilities can change. Always confirm the current platform behaviour before implementing a change.
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About A Little Simpler

A Little Simpler creates small digital tools for two parts of everyday work: organising life and getting practical tracking in place.

The planners are built to be used, not just look nice. The tracking guides come from nearly a decade of experience supporting advertisers with Google Ads, Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager implementations across different websites and platforms.

The goal is simple: give you a useful starting point, make the next step clear, and help you avoid spending hours looking for information that is scattered across documentation and tutorials.

Effective September 2026

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All products are digital instant downloads. Once purchased on Etsy, you get immediate access to the files. No physical items are shipped.

When we do refund — 7 days

We offer a refund within 7 days of purchase only if the download link is broken or the file is incorrect / corrupted and we cannot fix it for you.

To request: email [email protected] with your order ID and a screenshot of the issue. We'll try to fix it first.

No refunds for change of mind. Because you receive instant access to the full digital files after purchase.

Purchases made through Etsy or Lemon Squeezy may also be subject to the relevant platform's own policies and procedures.

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Guide buyer support

One-time implementation support is limited to:

  1. Finding the right selector.
  2. A correct selector but a tag that is not firing or is duplicating.
  3. Finding a target, variable, trigger, option or setting mentioned in the guide.
  4. Identifying the correct event, variable or Data Layer value for the purchase setup in the guide.
  5. Understanding a specific Google Ads vs GA4 reporting difference covered by the guide.

Please include clear screenshots and, where possible, your Tag Assistant debug link.

For guide implementation questions, please include your website URL, the guide you are using, and clear screenshots or your Tag Assistant debug link.