How do I manually add transactions to Google Analytics

[Towelsrus]

We are seeing Google Analytic's drop transaction on our site so therefore all the figures are skewed.

Is there a way I can manually add transactions to GA to cover the missing one?

[Ben_Alvord]

If you're getting dropped transactions for some reason, I would definitely recommend fixing that problem, as opposed to adding transactions manually, but if that's not possible for some reason, you could:

1. Create a static HTML page that includes your Google Analytics tracking code plus the ecommerce tracking code, manually filled in with the data of the transaction.
2. Post the HTML page up on your domain.  Let's say the URL would be http://www.yourdomain.com/testpage.html
3. Visit the URL (one time) with Google campaign variables appended to the URL to set the source/medium of the transaction to what it actually was.  So for an organic Google search, the URL would look like - http://www.yourdomain.com/testpage.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_term=somekeyword&utm_campaign=manual-transaction

That example URL in #3 would set the transaction to having come from an Organic google search.

Still though, best bet is to fix whatever problem is causing the transactions to be dropped, as this would be a pain in the ass to do for a ton of transactions.

Ben

[Towelsrus]

This was my concern to be honest. Probably best to leave as is.

Thanks

Craig

[Highland]

You could... but it would skew your GA. They would all appear to be from one user. You would have no meaningful metrics either.

The way to add them would be to code a page that generates the sales codes for GA then call it. That would transmit the data to Google.