We are clearly missing a piece of the puzzle on the Google tracking our ecommerce purchases.

www.cpcsigns.com

I think we need a transaction tag.. but I can't for the life of me figure it out!! Can anyone help or send me to someone that can fix it for us?



Michelle L Cosen

Hi Michelle, have you added any code for the tracking?

On the PHP parameters page, there is these steps...

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Add Google Analytics ecommerce code

If you want to track orders using Google Analytics add the following...

$googleanalyticsinfo=TRUE;
$usegoogleasync=TRUE;

... then open your php pages and just above the closing </body> tag add the following...

<script type="text/javascript">
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXX-X']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
<?php print @$googleanalyticstrackorderinfo?>(function() {
var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);})();
</script>

If you want use Google Analytics Universal Code you will need to be running Version 6.3 and add the following to vsadmin/includes.php

$usegoogleuniversal=TRUE;

You will also need this code on thanks.php

<script type="text/javascript">
(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
(i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
})(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');
ga('create','UA-XXXX-Y','auto');
ga('send','pageview');
ga('require','ecommerce','ecommerce.js');
<?php print @$googleanalyticstrackorderinfo?>
</script>

for Wordpress users you would need this in footer.php

<script type="text/javascript">
(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
(i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
})(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');
ga('create','UA-XXXX-Y','auto');
ga('send','pageview');
ga('require','ecommerce','ecommerce.js');
<?php print @$GLOBALS['googleanalyticstrackorderinfo']?>
</script>

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Hi Dave...I know you answered a question for me earlier today, and I'm continuing my research on the new Google Analytics 4.

Question: In the code listed above, the UA tracking ID is used (UA-XXXXX-X). Can I replace this with my new G- tracking ID?

Thanks

Eric Payne

You need the following format for GA4

<script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-AAAAAAAAAA"></script>
<script>
window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];
function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}
gtag('js', new Date());
gtag('config', 'G-AAAAAAAAAA');
</script>

The below link explains this pretty well.

https://www.ecommercetemplates.com/support/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=114351&SearchTerms=ga4

Patrick

Thank you!

Eric Payne