What are the updated mappings for eCommerce events in Google Tag Manager?

Purpose

To explain how to integrate a live chat service to your WebShop using Google Tag Manager without custom development.

Introducing terms and concepts used in this article

Term

Definition

Google Analytics 4

(GA4), captures data from different points on your website and app. The data captured is triggered by events (such as View Product or Checkout) which allows you to understand your customer's experience better and make informed decisions in order to improve business efficiency and sales.

Google Tag Manager

a service offered by Google that allows you to add and update your own tags for conversion tracking, site analytics, remarketing and more.

More information

We've updated the underlying data structures so that your GA4-tracked events are now sent to GA4 as native GA4 ecommerce events. This makes tracking events in your WebShop even more seamless, since you no longer need to use Google Tag Manager for any of them.

However, if you continue using Google Tag Manager to map eCommerce events to Google Analytics 4, you will need to make the following changes to your mappings to ensure they continue to be tracked as expected. Any event that is not listed here remains unchanged

Event

Description - triggered on

From

To

Product view

Viewing a product

productViewEvent

view_item

Add product

Adding a product to the Cart

addToCartEvent

add_to_cart

Checkout


checkoutEvent


Checking out from the Cart

begin_checkout

Submitting delivery details

add_shipping_info

Paying for and placing an order

add_payment_info

Purchase

Successful payment and customer is redirected to the success screen

purchaseEvent

purchase

We have also updated some of the object names and have added the ability to track additional parameters, as shown in the table below:

Event

Description - triggered on

Updated event name

Object name

Extra parameters




From

To


Product view

Viewing a product

view_item

products

items

price

Add product

Adding a product to the Cart

add_to_cart

products

items

price

Checkout






Checking out from the Cart

begin_checkout

products

items


Submitting delivery details

add_shipping_info

products

items


Paying for and placing an order

add_payment_info

products

items


Purchase

Successful payment and customer is redirected to the success screen

purchase

products

items


Key points

  • We've updated the underlying data structures so that your GA4-tracked events are now sent to GA4 as native GA4 ecommerce events.

  • You no longer need to use Google Tag Manager to map to GA4-tracked events.

  • If you continue using Google Tag Manager to map to GA4-tracked events, you will need to update your mappings as per the table in this article.

References

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