{"id":4314,"date":"2014-02-06T18:47:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T18:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/blog\/?p=4314"},"modified":"2019-11-28T12:21:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T12:21:34","slug":"getting-started-ecommerce-analytics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/blog\/getting-started-ecommerce-analytics","title":{"rendered":"Getting Started with Ecommerce Analytics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GoSquared Ecommerce Analytics \u2013\u00a0as easy as 1-2-G\" src=\"https:\/\/static.gosquared.com\/images\/home\/icon_trial_01.png\" width=\"260\" height=\"160\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, we launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/blog\/ecommerce-analytics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GoSquared Ecommerce Analytics<\/a>. Ecommerce Analytics brings your essential sales and business metrics to an elegantly simple live dashboard, and we&#8217;re stoked to already see a great uptake amongst our customers.<\/p>\n<p>A common query so far has been how to get Transaction tracking implemented on your store, so I wanted to put together a quick post to explain what&#8217;s available to help you get set up with Ecommerce Analytics.<\/p>\n<h3>Read the Guides<\/h3>\n<p>We&#8217;ve put together a set of guides on our Ecommerce Analytics <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/customer\/portal\/articles\/1436219\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">support site<\/a> all about how to set up Ecommerce tracking.<\/p>\n<p>It boils down to two options:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>If you are using a common platform or hosting for your store, like <del datetime=\"2016-09-28T13:08:53+00:00\">Shopify<\/del>, Magento, or WordPress, you should check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/customer\/en\/portal\/articles\/1647668-what-ecommerce-platforms-does-gosquared-integrate-with-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">list of integrations<\/a>. If an integration exists for your platform, it usually means you can get set up with GoSquared Ecommerce Analytics in a few clicks and with no custom coding.<\/li>\n<li>If we do not have an integration for your platform, or you are running your own store system, check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/docs\/tracking\/ecommerce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">custom integration guide<\/a>. It explains how you can use our libraries and APIs to track transactions in your system.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Once you&#8217;re set up, transactions happening on your store when your customers purchase goods will automatically get tracked by GoSquared, and visualised in the Ecommerce Analytics Dashboard. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.gosquared.com\/images\/home\/icon_trial_01.png\" width=\"260\" height=\"160\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, we launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/blog\/ecommerce-analytics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GoSquared Ecommerce<\/a>. Ecommerce brings your essential sales and business metrics to an elegantly simple live dashboard, and we&#8217;re stoked to already see a great uptake amongst our users.<\/p>\n<p>A common query so far has been how to get Transaction tracking implemented on your store, so I wanted to put together a quick post to explain what&#8217;s available to help you get set up with Ecommerce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1584],"tags":[304,860],"class_list":["post-4314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sales","tag-ecommerce","tag-support"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.6 (Yoast SEO v19.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Getting Started with Ecommerce Analytics - GoSquared Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Simple steps to getting set up with GoSquared Ecommerce Analytics.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/blog\/getting-started-ecommerce-analytics\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Getting Started with Ecommerce Analytics\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Simple steps to getting set up with GoSquared Ecommerce Analytics.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/blog\/getting-started-ecommerce-analytics\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"GoSquared Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GoSquared\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-02-06T18:47:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-11-28T12:21:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.gosquared.com\/images\/home\/icon_trial_01.png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@TheDeveloper\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@GoSquared\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Geoff Wagstaff\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/blog\/#organization\",\"name\":\"GoSquared\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/blog\/\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/gosquaredteam\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/go-squared-ltd.\",\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GoSquared\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GoSquared\"],\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/gosquared.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/gosquared.png\",\"width\":1270,\"height\":250,\"caption\":\"GoSquared\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"GoSquared Blog\",\"description\":\"Turn visitors into customers.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/blog\/getting-started-ecommerce-analytics#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.gosquared.com\/images\/home\/icon_trial_01.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.gosquared.com\/images\/home\/icon_trial_01.png\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/blog\/getting-started-ecommerce-analytics#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/blog\/getting-started-ecommerce-analytics\",\"name\":\"Getting Started with Ecommerce Analytics - 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