Overview
Partnerize’s Ascend™ platform partnership with WeCanTrack enables publisher partners to integrate affiliate marketing lifecycle data into their reporting source of truth. WeCanTrack aggregates your data across multiple affiliate providers and maps affiliate transactions to site traffic, enabling you to automatically evaluate all your affiliate transactions against Google Analytics, Google Ads, Facebook, Data Studio, Bing Ads and a lot more in a single dashboard. Once you connected your Ascend account, WeCanTrack collects your affiliate transactions from the prior two months and continuously updates the data close to real time, collecting this information:
Data Collected with Ascend API:
● Transaction ID
● Order Date
● Creative Type
● Advertiser Name
● Advertiser ID
● Commission
● Sale amount
● Status
● SubID (SID)
● Transaction Type
Data Collected with WeCanTrack JavaScript Tag:
● Website URL
● Landing Page
● Session Date & Time
● Click Date & Time
● Click Page
● Affiliate URL
● Network Name
WeCanTrack offers a dashboard and multiple reports, comparable to the Ascend™ platform’s reports: Transaction Details, Advertiser Performance, Publisher Commission Status. WeCanTrack also attributes the data to landing pages and websites within their dashboard. Moreover, customized reporting setup is available to accommodate your preferences.
Getting Started
Log into Parternize’s Ascend™.
Navigate to https://ascend.pepperjam.com/affiliate/api/ via the Left Navigation panel Resources - API Keys
You will need your (1) API Key and (2) website ID
Connecting Pepperjam to WeCanTrack
- Set up a WeCanTrack account here: https://app.wecantrack.com/register
- Verify your email address
- Log into WeCanTrack
- Go to Data Sources - Affiliate Networks - Pepperjam (https://app.wecantrack.com/user/data-source/networks/pepperjam/accounts)
- Click on “Add New Account”
- Fill in your API Credentials
8. OPTIONAL: Click on Sub ID Selector if you’d like to adjust the SID set up. By standard, We Can Track will place unique IDs within your SID parameter. If you already make use of SID then We Can Track will append the unique ID behind your value together with a separator. In the Sub ID Selector you can adjust these settings.
Your Ascend and WeCanTrack integration is complete.
Connecting Websites to We Can Track
In order to make use of the sale to click attribution, Google Analytics Integration, Google Ads Integration, Facebook Integration or Bing Ads Integration features, you need to connect your website(s) to We Can Track as well.
- Go to Data Integrations - Your Websites
- Click "Add New Website"
- Fill in your website URL
- Check if our system filled in the correct Google Analytics Tracking ID and Facebook Pixel ID and make any necessary corrections.
Then, select whether you cloak (hide) your affiliate links.
Select whether you are dynamically loading content with affiliate links.
Click on “Save and Show JS Snippet”
5. Copy the JavaScript Snippet and paste it in the header of your website behind the Google Analytics tag
It is recommended not to use Google Tag Manager for that because Google Tag Manager is blocked by numerous ad blockers.
Now, your website is connected to We Can Track
If you cloak your affiliate URLs, some further adjustments need to be made. Please get in contact with hello@wecantrack.com in order to receive a detailed explanation on how to make use of We Can Track if you cloak your affiliate URLs.
Activating Integration Features in We Can Track
Go to Features (https://app.wecantrack.com/user/features) to activate the integration features you would like to make use of. For each integration feature extra steps might follow:
Google Analytics Integration: https://wecantrack.com/get-started/#ga
Google Ads Integration: https://wecantrack.com/get-started/#gads
Data Studio Integration: https://wecantrack.com/get-started/#ds
Facebook Integration: https://wecantrack.com/get-started/#fb
API Integration: https://wecantrack.com/get-started/#api
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