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Important Notice: Non-Shopify Documentation Deprecation

This guide applies to non-Shopify onboarding and is now deprecated. For the up-to-date and supported server-to-server tracking setup, navigate to our API Onboarding Documentation.

Overview

Elevar utilizes a Data Layer to capture events and send them to various channels. These Data Layer events are picked up by GTM (Google Tag Manager) and also Elevar via a listener so that they can be sent server-side.

Elevar handles much of the complexity for processing data layer events, but relies on the merchant’s development team to implement the user interactions which includes catalog data.

Below is a diagram that explains the onsite functionality that Elevar provides. The Data Layer is enriched by Elevar and includes a listener that is responsible for sending events server side where they ultimately end up at a channel like Google Analytics, Facebook CAPI, etc.

This guide will take the developers through:

• Part 1: Installation process of Elevar scripts
• Part 2: Implementing the Data Layer and Implementing the Checkout Funnel Events Data Layer
• Part 3: Validation of Data Layer events
• Optional:
  • Setting a Proxy Path to Bypass Ad Blockers
  • How to Pass your own User Identifier
  • Transforming Data Layer Events