Overview

Follow this guide to learn how to set up Piwik PRO as a Server Side Destination.

Prerequisites:

Before you can enable your Piwik PRO Destination, you will need to:

• Install the Shopify Source on your store. Follow this guide to learn how to install the Shopify Source.

Add Piwik PRO as a Server-Side Destination

Add Destination:

• On the homepage of your Elevar Account, locate and click on the "My Tracking" tab from the left-hand menu.
• Once, in "My Tracking" select the "Add Destination" button in the upper right hand corner of the page.
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Locate Piwik PRO Destination:

• A side bar pop-up window will appear, titled "Add Destination".
• Within this pop-up, use the search function and type "Piwik PRO".
• Once the Piwik PRO destination appears from the search function, click on it.

Get Started:

• After locating and clicking on the Piwik PRO destination, you will be taken to overview screen.
• Click the "Get Started" button in the lower left-hand corner of the Overview box.
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Entering Piwik PRO Setup Settings

Update Piwik PRO Settings:

• Within the "Setup Steps" section of the page, locate the "Setup Steps".
  • Navigate to the section of the page titled "Instance Name" and use the text box to add in your Piwik Pro Instance Name. Follow this guide to learn how to locate your Piwik PRO Instance Name.
  • Navigate to the section of the page titled "Site or App ID" and use the text box to add in your Piwik Pro Instance Name. Follow this guide to learn how to locate your Piwik PRO Site or App ID.
• Click on the "Save and Continue" button at the bottom of this section.
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Select Events:

• To select what events you want to send to Piwik PRO, begin in the "Setup Steps" box and click on the "Event" tab.
• Within the "Events" box, click on the button labeled "Use best practices" or "Customize settings". Currently, our "Use best practices" recommends sending just the purchase event server-side.
• After selecting what events you want to send to Piwik PRO, click on the "Save and Continue" button at the bottom of this section.
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Consent Mode:

• After selecting what events you want to send to Piwik PRO, you will be prompted to enable Consent Mode.
• To enable Consent Mode, click on the "Yes" button.
  • If you've configured consent mode in your data layer settings for cookie compliance, then you can configure this option here as well. [How to make sure my server-side tracking adheres to my consent rules]
• If you do not want to enable Consent Mode in your data layer settings, click on the "No" button.
• Once you have all of selected all of the information for enabling Consent Mode, click on the "Save and Continue" button at the bottom of this section.
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Enabling Consent Mode:

By enabling consent mode, your marketing data processing will depend on:

• Your consent platform configuration
• How your visitors interact with the cookie banner
• What geolocation they visit the store from

That's why you may see a decrease in data across your marketing platforms and lower marketing campaign performance.

For EU Stores: If you are making your tracking setup consent compliant for the first time, you may see a 10-80% decrease in data across all of your marketing destinations.

Filter Transactions:

• After selecting the consent mode, you need to choose whether or not to filter transactions.
  • Currently, our recommended practices suggests selecting the "Yes, Block some transactions" button which blocks exchange and historical import orders.
  • Or if you would like to allow specific transactions, click on the "Yes, block" button which includes the "web" sales channel to allow orders created on your website to be sent to this destination.
  • If you do not want to filter transactions, click on the "No, send" button.
• Once you have all of selected all of the information for Filtered Transactions, click on the "Save and Continue" button at the bottom of this section.
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Learn More: Filtering Transactions

Thinking you may need to block additional orders? Learn how to block these orders in this guide.

Not sure if you need to block orders? Look at what Sales Channels you have in Shopify!

Go Live:

• After completing all of the previous Piwik PRO Setup Steps, an Overview page will appear.
  • If all of the details within the Configuration Summary look correct, then click on the button labeled "Go Live" at the bottom of this section.
• A pop-up window will appear, asking for a confirmation of your changes.
• Click on the button labeled "Yes, Go Live".
  • (See Figure 7)

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Be sure to remove any pre-existing Piwik PRO tracking setup if you haven't already done so!