This feature is only available on the Business Plan and higher.

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The Sales Tracking feature allows you to track sales coming from people who have entered your promotion.

If a user who enters your promotion goes on to make a purchase from the same device or browser that they entered the promotion from, the pixel will track and report that sale.

The first step is to install the sales tracking pixel. In your ViralSweep dashboard find your promotion and go to:

Analytics > Sales Tracking

You have 3 installation options:

Simply copy and paste the standard pixel onto the page that a user will see after they make a purchase on your site.

To set a static value for the purchase (where the purchase value will always be the same), simply change value=0 in the pixel to something like value=2500. This represents a $25.00 purchase.

More examples:

Dynamic Values

To set a dynamic value for the purchase (where the purchase value will always be different based on what the user has in their cart), you will need to have your developer determine the value using your own server-side language. Simply change the 0 in ?value=0 to the proper amount to report the purchase value.

Your developer will need to determine the value of the purchase before the page loads and then inject that value into the pixel.

For example, in PHP it could look like:

$value=9999;

?value=<?PHP print $value; ?>

1) In your ViralSweep dashboard find your promotion and go to:

Analytics > Sales Tracking > Shopify.

If you are not using a post-purchase upsell app on your store, then you only need to copy the Order Status Tracking Pixel. If you are using a post-purchase upsell app, then you will need to add both pixels that we provide to your store.

2) In your Shopify dashboard go to:

Settings > Checkout > Order Status Page

3) Paste your pixel into the Order Status Page box and click Save.

4) If you are using a Post-purchase upsell app, then you will need to also copy the Post-purchase Upsell Tracking Pixel from your ViralSweep account, and drop it into:

Settings > Checkout > Post-purchase page

1) In your ViralSweep dashboard find your promotion and go to:

Analytics > Sales Tracking > BigCommerce > Copy the Sales Tracking Pixel

2) In your Bigcommerce dashboard go to:

Advanced Settings > Data Solutions (formerly Web Analytics) > Affiliate Conversion Tracking.

3) In the Connection section, paste your pixel into the box and click Save.

To see all data on purchases from your campaign, simply go to:

Analytics > Sales Tracking

We provide you with charts, as well as a table breakdown of all the data.

In addition, you can export the data from the table to see the email addresses and purchase amounts.

If you have added the sales tracking pixel to your checkout page and you are still having issues with sales not showing or they are showing incorrectly, these are the most common reasons as to why:

Pixel added to the wrong page

If ViralSweep is reporting a sale, but you do not have any sales in your system, then you have added the pixel to the wrong page. This can happen if you add the pixel to a page that the user sees before they've actually completed their entire purchase. Be sure to move the pixel to a page that the user will see only after their order is submitted.

All sales are the same amount

If all your sales are being recorded as the same amount, this is because you are using our standard pixel and have put in a static value. If you need to report a dynamic value (where every purchase will be a different amount based on what the user has in their cart), then you need to have your developer follow the directions on this page for adding dynamic values.

I have sales, but they are not showing in ViralSweep

If you have sales and think they should be reporting in Viralsweep, the most common reason as to why they won't show up is because the person either did not enter your promotion (we will only track sales from an entry, not a pageview), or the person made their purchase on a different device than the one they entered your promotion from.

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