Comments on: PayPal IPN, PDT & Analytics tracking, getting there.

By: Iain Norman

Iain Norman — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:51:28 +0000

Are you also replicating the cookies?

By: Drew Angell

Drew Angell — Sat, 23 May 2009 23:41:13 +0000

Well, they’re not showing up because of the HTML tags I guess. I’m generating the __utm.gif tags according to Google’s troubleshooting guide about what goes in that string (http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/gaTrackingTroubleshooting.html#gifParameters) but I’m still not getting anything.

By: Drew Angell

Drew Angell — Sat, 23 May 2009 23:39:22 +0000

Have you made any more progress on this? I’m trying to use the method of generating the strings myself like you say here and skipping all the javascript stuff. Here’s what I end up with in my page…

Still nothing showing up in my Analytics Ecommerce, though..??

By: Iain Norman

Iain Norman — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:50:11 +0000

One of the easiest, but not cheap, solutions is to sign up for the pro payments PayPal whotsit.

I’ve still got to get around to fixing this damn thing up and seeing if it really works in a live situation, as the test indicates it might do.

By: Bien

Bien — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 03:16:13 +0000

You would figure that after all these years the folks at Google and PayPal would have gotten together to figure out a solution for this. I just launched a site that sells items via PayPal, but it would be ideal if I could track goals (particularly conversions from affiliate programs) via Google Analytics.

By: Dusty

Dusty — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:07:04 +0000

Hey Iain, has anymore progress been made on this?

By: JIRA: Toonstorm

JIRA: Toonstorm — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:33:41 +0000

[STORM-393] broken google analytics + temp solution…

As it turns out the page where the ROI tracking is emitted (order confirmation page) is never called on the storefront when using a regular Paypal payment.

There can be a way though, it requires custom programming.
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By: Iain Norman

Iain Norman — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:30:11 +0000

Certainly there is a gathering weight of pressure for me to get on with it. I can’t promise anything at the moment though, got a product to ship.

By: Leif Jason

Leif Jason — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:52:11 +0000

I’m definitely very interested in this. Please let me know if you finish developing this and I may be able to convince some clients to send some money your way. Conversely, if there is a specific number that would convince you to expedite completion let me know.

By: Iain Norman

Iain Norman — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:05:13 +0000

I didn’t get anything Brandon, no.

Try iain arghhhhh norman dotty org.

By: Brandon Greenlee

Brandon Greenlee — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:02:11 +0000

Iain,

I sent you an email a little while back regarding this project. Wanted to double check if you received it.

Thanks-
Brandon

By: Iain Norman

Iain Norman — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:57:45 +0000

Apologies to anyone waiting on this. It’s still sidelined, may have some time later this week though so I’ve started to think about it again.

By: Brandon Greenlee

Brandon Greenlee — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:10:54 +0000

I’d be extremely interested in seeing this completed as well. Why don’t you finish it up and sell it?

By: mike

mike — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:49:09 +0000

Mate,

Don’t beg

If you can get this to work & want a test case to use as more proof, I have just the client for you.
I’ll pay you to do the work & you can use it to get more.. sound ok?

send me a note when you get a chance.
cheers,
mike

By: Iain Norman

Iain Norman — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:27:11 +0000

I’m preparing to ship a new product at the moment, so worry about all this is on the back burner for a couple of months now.

If anyone needs it done and sorted then, to be frank, make me an offer. *grins*

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 04:08:44 +0000

Thanks for the info, I look forward to the follow-up post.

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