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  • Resolved Maikel1987

    (@maikel1987)


    Hello,

    In our webshop the transactions paid with Paypal and iDeal aren’t tracked in GA. If our customer pays with iDeal or Paypal, their being directed to the page where they can pay. After they have paid they are sent through to our thankyou page but then the products they bought aren’t tracked by the GTM.

    In the source you can see the datalayer is empty:
    <script type=”text/javascript”>
    dataLayer.push([]);

    If a customer pais with for example: pay on delivery, then the transaction is sent through correct to GA.

    How can I fix this problem?

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/duracelltomi-google-tag-manager/

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  • Plugin Author Thomas Geiger

    (@duracelltomi)

    Hi,

    As far as I can see I have to change the way how I fire the gtm4wp.orderCompleted event.

    I am going to prepare a fix for this in the coming days.
    Thanks for bringing this up!

    Thomas

    Thread Starter Maikel1987

    (@maikel1987)

    That would be great!

    Thank you in advance.

    Maikel

    Thread Starter Maikel1987

    (@maikel1987)

    Dear Thomas,

    Did you have time to look at the fix? Sorry for the rush, but we really want to track all our transactions for optimization of our webshop.

    Thank you in advance.

    Sincerely,

    Maikel

    Plugin Author Thomas Geiger

    (@duracelltomi)

    Hi Maikel,

    I absolutely understand you point of view.

    No, sorry, I was very busy in the last 2 week.
    I will have time to do the necessary modifications next week so hopefully you do not need to wait other weeks.

    Thanks for your patience.

    Thomas

    Thread Starter Maikel1987

    (@maikel1987)

    Thank you very much!

    Thread Starter Maikel1987

    (@maikel1987)

    Dear Thomas,

    What is the status of the fix? Is it possible to solve the problem?

    Sincerely,

    Maikel

    Plugin Author Thomas Geiger

    (@duracelltomi)

    Hi Maikel,

    Due the the XMas season I decided not to release a new version so that another possible hidden bug does not affect existing users.

    I hope you understand my concerns.
    I postponed the release until around the beginning of January.

    Cheers,
    Thomas

    Thread Starter Maikel1987

    (@maikel1987)

    Hi Thomas,

    I understand.

    Will you let me know when the bug is fixed?

    Thank you in advance.

    Greetings,
    Maikel

    Plugin Author Thomas Geiger

    (@duracelltomi)

    Sure, you can count on me!

    Thread Starter Maikel1987

    (@maikel1987)

    Hello Thomas,

    Can you give me an update on the fix? It’s now been 4 months since I started this topic.

    Greetings,
    Maikel

    Plugin Author Thomas Geiger

    (@duracelltomi)

    Hi,

    I am almost done.
    If I cann’t get back to you on this Friday you can send me your PayPal address and I will send you $30!

    Deal? 🙂

    Thomas

    Thread Starter Maikel1987

    (@maikel1987)

    That’s very good news.

    Haha okay, that’s a deal!

    Thank you in advance.

    Greetings,
    Maikel

    Plugin Author Thomas Geiger

    (@duracelltomi)

    Hi Maikel,

    Could you send me an email using the contact form on duracelltomi.com?

    Thanks,
    Thomas

    Hey Thomas

    Have you come across the same issues but around Bing Ads tracking? We have Google Ad Words tracking on some thank you pages and the same setup with Bing, however the conversions do not seem to be recorded in GTM. Thanks.

    Plugin Author Thomas Geiger

    (@duracelltomi)

    Hi,

    Some other users reported that they are missing transactions payed using PayPal and I spent the last few days investigating this issue further.

    It seems that by default PayPal does not redirect users back to your website after payment. Users have the option to close the browser window or to navigate to another site. This means that those users does not reach the WooCommerce thankyou page where I could pass the transaction data to GTM and where your Bing or other marketing tags could fire.

    One option we are testing now is to enable auto return in PayPal settings:
    https://www.paypal.com/ie/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/mer/express_return_summary-outside

    If you are able to set this up I would be happy if you could do this and get back here with your findings.

    Cheers,
    Thomas

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