Magento - Sales Tracking

Installing the code

Please view this short < 2 minute instructional video before following the instructions below, together they will help you install and test the myshopping.com.au tracking code on your Magento site.

 
 
Prerequisites
  • Admin access to your Myshopping merchant interface.
  • A FTP (file transfer protocol) Application E.g. Cute FTP , FileZilla, Dreamweaver.
  • Write administrative access login credentials for your  webserver FTP account
  • Have a basic understand of  programing.
  • Some previous knowledge of the Magento hosting template system.

1. Login in to your Myshopping account and locate your Merchant ID from the Account Summary screen.

2. Copy the code from the box below and replace the word Yourmerchantid with your Myshopping Merchant ID

* Do not add any extra spaces or carriage returns with in the code also use a plain text editor to make modification.

 

3. Login in to your Magento store via your FTP program and navigate to the following path:

       /app/desgin/frontend/base/{default}/template/checkout 

       * {default} where this reads this is your active store theme template.

 

 

4. Make a backup of the success.phtml file on the webserver also copy this to your local machine
 
5. Open the success.phtml file within your editor.
 

 
6. Edit the  success.phtml  file and add the code from above with your merchant ID
 

7. Save the code and upload this back to the webserver overwriting the original file.

 

**Please note sales transactional data are displayed as default store currency settings and not as AUD


Dont forget to test the code is working

All that is left now is to do a test to ensure the tracking code is working properly. To do a test, please do the following;

  • complete a purchase on your store, please do not hit refresh after you have completed the order
  • make a note of the amount and the date + the order number for that order
  • send an email to us with the order number, date and amount. We will find the data for you same day
All sales data appears next day in your Merchant interface so you can always wait 24hrs to check the data yourself.