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As Provider I want to integrate the PBA Online Store with Google Analytics (GA) service to track visitors and report e-commerce activity.
Parallels provides official documentation how to include Google Analytics (GA) code into the PBA Online Store pages - Including Google Analytics.
This article provides examples of variables which can be used in the GA JavaScript code in the PBA Online Store pages to track parameters of customers' purchases.
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You may find information from Google website useful - Ecommerce Tracking - Web Tracking (ga.js), as variables you may use in GA code are described there and a couple of examples are present.
The parameters of customer's account and order being placed which you may use in the GA code in the PBA Online Store are described below.
- Transaction ID: Order Number {$smarty.session.OrderInfo.Number} or Order ID {$smarty.session.OrderInfo.OrderID}
- Total order amount: {$smarty.session.OrderInfo.Total|string_format:"%.2f"}
- Total tax amount: {$smarty.session.OrderInfo.TaxTotal|string_format:"%.2f"}
- Customer's location:
- City: {$account->accountDetails.City}
- State or province: {$StateName}
- Country: {$account->accountDetails.Country}
Order may contain multiple items, the piece of JS code for each order item should be defined inside the loop structure like that:
{foreach name=oitem item=itemOrder from=$OrderDetails}
... actual code to process order items ...
{/foreach}
The following variables may be used for order items:
- Transaction ID: Order Number {$smarty.session.OrderInfo.Number} or Order ID {$smarty.session.OrderInfo.OrderID} (same as above)
- SKU/part number: either {$itemOrder.DetID} if you do not use SKUs or {$itemOrder.SKU} if they are defined and configured
- Product name: {$itemOrder.Descr}
- Category: this parameter is not required, may be left empty; if Sales CategoryID is needed you may use one of the variables $SalesCategoryID or $plan->attr->SalesCategoryID
- Price: {$itemOrder.UnitPrice|string_format:"%.2f"}
- Quantity: {$itemOrder.Quantity}