Simple Google Analytics - Support

you need admin access in your GA account. Then you'll find those under the "Admin" section (upper right hand corner of the screen). GO there then you'll see a number of options. One of those is Goals. Go into that and set goals accordingly.

It automatically tracks Ecommerce Transactions BUT you need to tell Google Analytics that you are an "Ecommerce Site" for that to show up in your GA reports. Do that in the settings / admin section as well for the Profile you are working with.

For PPC tracking you need to enter your PPC Tracking ID in the Simple GA interface (Zen Admin). Then turn on Conversion Tracking from within the Zen Admin as well. That is how you track PPC. You may also want to link your Google Analytics account to your Google Adwords account to get cross tracking that way as well (but not required.)

Let me know if you have any problems and need more help with it.

The next version here of Simple GA (just about to release here) supports Universal Tracking as well as a load of other items that are now available within Google (some little known ones as well), Adwords, and a a few other PPC tracking systems as well. So it has moved to a full out tracking suite for the most part (thus the time needed to revamp it. ) :)

I have had this mod working for awhile but I can't for the life of me figure out how to get the ecommerce part to work, I have searched the forum and found a lot of questions but very few answers. I have my GA account set-up to track ecommerce so everything on that end seems to be fine. I thought this mod automatically installed the code to track ecommerce but either it didn't or I screwed it up on install. Not even sure where to start. I am using ZC 1.5.1 and as far as I know the latest release of Simple GA. The website is crystals-place.com if that helps at all.

robertmcneil34:

I have had this mod working for awhile but I can't for the life of me figure out how to get the ecommerce part to work, I have searched the forum and found a lot of questions but very few answers. I have my GA account set-up to track ecommerce so everything on that end seems to be fine. I thought this mod automatically installed the code to track ecommerce but either it didn't or I screwed it up on install. Not even sure where to start. I am using ZC 1.5.1 and as far as I know the latest release of Simple GA. The website is crystals-place.com if that helps at all.

I wasn't able to get it to work and once we forked into http://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=1827
we were able to re-write the code and make it function better, as it was missing a DB define I think

so then this mod should automatically enable the ecommerce tracking??

Have you turned on ecommerce tracking in your analytics account?

robertmcneil34:

so then this mod should automatically enable the ecommerce tracking??

yes, so far as I can tell everything on the google side is set right, I just couldn't get ZC to send the ecommerce info for purchases

robertmcneil34:

yes, so far as I can tell everything on the google side is set right, I just couldn't get ZC to send the ecommerce info for purchases

Yes, it should work automatically. I have installed this on many sites with no issues, as long as the ecommerce setting is turned on in google. You may want to try uninstalling and reinstalling? Have you ever had an older version of this mod or any other code relating to analytics on the site? Perhaps there is some old code somewhere interfering.

just the first one I installed and then this one now, I will give it a few days and see if it works. It is still a very new site so we don't necessarily get sales everyday yet to let me know if it is working, if not I am sure I will be back lol Thanks for the help

robertmcneil34:

just the first one I installed and then this one now, I will give it a few days and see if it works. It is still a very new site so we don't necessarily get sales everyday yet to let me know if it is working, if not I am sure I will be back lol Thanks for the help

When you are in analytics and viewing ecommerce transactions, if you look in the upper right at the date range, you will notice it's always a day behind by default. Google says transactions can take 24 hours to show up, but I've found they generally show up much faster, but you have to adjust that date range to include today's date. When I do test transactions, I can usually see them within a few minutes as long as I update the date range.

ok maybe I will give that a shot then once I get through a few pages of my to-do BINDER loll I miss the good ole days when I only had a list

Yes, this module automatically tracks ecommerce transactions as long as you turn that feature on from within the Zen Cart admin (configuration section) and also activate "Ecommerce Tracking" from within your Google Analytics Account.

There are two different Google Analytics Modules. One is called Google Analytics by Andrew (which apparently has some native issues and problems with tracking) and then there is the one I created called Simple Google Analytics. If you had the prior version installed, it includes a number of files that are not needed in my version. If that is the case, you may want to make sure you completely remove all files and db entries for that version before you re-install my version (the Simple Google Analytics one.)

zc 1.3.9h

A couple months ago within Google Analytics I upgraded to Universal Analytics. No obvious issues, but I noticed a few days ago that the tracking code on mysite was not the new Universal code and figured I better upgrade SGA.

I had 1.2.5 installed and upgraded to 1.2.6 today, copying the only file with changes, includes/templates/mytemplate/google_analytics/google_analytics.php

The old tracking code is still showing on my site. You had mentioned in November that the new version of SGA would have support for Universal Analytics, which I assume means version 1.2.6 released in Dec 2013? Or has that feature not been added yet for zc 1.3.9h?

I have upgraded all of mine to Easy Google Analytics a fork off Simple Google Analytics with auto-upgrade script and support for universal
http://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=1827

bislewl:

I have upgraded all of mine to Easy Google Analytics a fork off Simple Google Analytics with auto-upgrade script and support for universal
http://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=1827

Ok, I downloaded and copied all files from Easy GA this evening. I refreshed zencart admin and got a blank page with this error in the debug log. The version.php file referenced in the error does not exist in the package.

[23-Feb-2014 00:11:47 America/Chicago] PHP Warning: require_once(/home/MYSTORE/public_html/ADMINDIR/includes/installers/google_analytics/version.php) [<a href='function.require-once'>function.require-once</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/MYSTORE/public_html/ADMINDIR/includes/installers/google_analytics/upgrade_1.X.php on line 3
[23-Feb-2014 00:11:47 America/Chicago] PHP Fatal error: require_once() [<a href='function.require'>function.require</a>]: Failed opening required '/home/MYSTORE/public_html/ADMINDIR/includes/installers/google_analytics/version.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/MYSTORE/public_html/ADMINDIR/includes/installers/google_analytics/upgrade_1.X.php on line 3

You should take support requests for Easy GA to the appropriate thread.

@ Eric - any timetable for the update?

Jim,

Should be a few days here. For a release. There will be a few updates after that as well to migrate toward the actual "suite" we have put together.

Eric

Hi I have this module installed:

Date Added: 08/23/2013
Last Modified: 09/26/2013

On My zen cart 1.5.1

I seem to be having an issue whereby my adwords sales are tracked and counted twice;

EG: sale today of 141.00 appears in the adwords account as a sale of 282.00

Any ideas what is the cause of this double calculation and also when is the release of the upcoming update?

Many Thanks
Regards
Renz

The only way that sales are typically tracked twice is if there are two versions of the code snippet installed. In most cases this likely means that someone manually installed some Google tracking code somewhere in the site (footer file?) and then you installed the Simple Google Analytics module which automatically inserted the code as well. So you would see duplicate sales reporting etc.. in those cases.

The easiest way to find if this is the case is to do a 'view source' (from a browser) while looking at your site. If you find your Google Tracking id listed twice anywhere on the page, then you'll need to remove one of them. In the case of conversion tracking (which only occurs / triggers on the sale success page) you may need to run a test order and then view source on that page to see it it has been duplicated.)

Let me know if this helps.

New update should be released here in the next day or so. This new update has a framework change (will not affect current installs and upgrades very easily) that positions the module for integration with our new 'SMART suite' of tools / modules. So it has been sometime in the making. In the end, the result will be a module that positions stores to have the tools needed to really increase sales and run a profitable online business.

Regardless of the update however, the duplicate order tracking is a result of duplicated code more than likely and would still exist until you remove one of the two snippets.