Setting up Goals in Analytics when no common 'order confirmation' type page

[Dan-Lawrence]

Hi

I'm working on a project/client and have asked them for the common url that shows whenever user finishes the purchase process so i cant set it up as a Goal in GA so we can track conversions etc

Since site is dynamically generated it does not have such a page.

Dev are suggesting setting up a new goal, generate a URL and script and they will append to a similar call.

Does this make sense/sound like it would work ? And is it quite easy to do that in Analytics ? Normally i just add a URL as a goal and jobs done, don't know about scripts etc !

Cheers

Dan

set up a new Goal and generate a URL and script and send that to us and we'll append this to a similar call we already did for this at your request originally

[Dan-Lawrence]

Thanks but no idea how to, what do i do just copy and paste the code in your above/most recent comment, change the word 'button' to something else (or add something else after it) like 'data-transaction-button'.  Do i change every instance of 'data-paypal-button' in above script to 'data-transaction-button' too ?

Then i just email it to dev and ask them to add it to an external file on the site ?

What about the code in your first comment ? (which i had already emailed the dev team) does that need to be done first before code in your most recent post ? And how and where does one fire an event in javascript ?

Pls be aware i havn't got any site backend access, i've just been advising dev what i need done so i can track conversions etc but they have come back with a massive quote for that so if i can do myself great but have no dev or code experience

Really appreciate you taking the time to comment/help

[AlanMosley]

That's a joke.
do it your self

$("input[data-paypal-button]").click(function () {
        _gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'PayPal', 'Button', 'domain.com.au', 5])
    })

In the above code, all you need to do is add an attribute to the button, then include the script in a external file, job done

Where "data-paypal-button" can be anything, but should start with data- to keep with convention

'PayPal', 'Button', 'domain.com.au' can also be anything

See https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/eventTrackerGuide?csw=1

[Dan-Lawrence]

Many Thanks Alan

I have issued these instructions to dev team and they have quoted £490 for setting up this 1 goal and  £900+ for enabling and setting up e-commerce tracking which sounds extraordinary to me, Would appreciate your view, does this sound way of the mark to you ?

Normally developers i work with would implement these at less than half a days work

Cheers

Dan

[Chris_CM]

Alan's approach is what we use as well for non-purchase related goals.  We set an event in the function that verifies a form submission (linked to the submit, or in your case maybe purchase, button) so the event is fired when the form is submitted successfully.  Then you can set the goal as that event being triggered, and you're good to go.

Hope that helps,

Chris Wilson

[AlanMosley]

Look at events in GA, all you need to do is fire a event in javascript and that event can be your goal, a goal does not have to be an url, it just needs to be an action, a button click for example.

add an attribute to a button or link such as data-ga-event

then add code such as

$document).ready(function(){
     $("*[data-ga-event]).click(function(){
       //your google event here
}
})