| Take the PXA coursePixel tracking
This feature is only accessible to specific impact.com editions or add-ons. Contact us to upgrade your account and get access!Pixel tracking is the standard tracking method for Partnership Cloud. A 1x1 transparent JavaScript image pixel is placed into the HTML body of your conversion page (sometimes referred to as the “Thank you page” or “Confirmation page”) that works in conjunction with impact.com's Universal Tracking Tag and Identify scripts. These scripts use a trackConversion function to notify Partnership Cloud when a conversion is recorded.
impact.com's pixel tracking sets cookies via JavaScript, that may not be compliant with Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP), meaning visitors using Safari can’t be tracked accurately. impact.com solves this inability to track by offering custom tracking environments with a unique tracking domain. Therefore, the custom tracking environments avoid forwarding traffic to another domain and thus exempting the cookies from ITP’s 24-hour restriction on landing pages with “cross-site tracking capabilities”.
API tracking (sometimes referred to as “cookieless tracking” or “server-to-server tracking”) is a non-pixel tracking method that uses the impact.com API to report conversions. API tracking, is fully ITP compliant and becoming the standard and recommended tracking solution for Brands.
Using our API tracking solution, you’ll send an API call to impact.com with anonymized data about a visitor when they click a tracking link. When a visitor converts, you’ll send another API call to impact.com with anonymized data on the conversion page about the conversion, and impact.com will compare the conversion data with the tracking link click data to establish attribution.
impact.com uses a deterministic identity graph to traverse a large set of identifiers to ensure we’re finding every relevant match for that converted visitor’s journey.
FTP tracking is another version of “server-to-server tracking” that uses an FTP server to either receive or push tracking data. As a Brand, you’ll need to capture data about visitors on your website both before and after a conversion. Many brands will store this data in first-party cookies. Then, you’ll create a .CSV file of all the conversions that occurred on your site and submit them to impact.com via FTP. Partner Cloud will compare ClickID and other data points to attribute credit to a partner and appear in reporting.
Attention
This section refers to impact.com's legacy CPC tracking functionality which will soon be deprecated. Refer to Set Your Click Payout Rules with CPC V2 if you need guidance configuring CPC payout rules for your program.
CPC (cost-per-click) tracking is the tracking method used for your CPC programs. This method enables you to track and pay for clicks that drive traffic to your website.
Setting up the click tracker (also known as an event type) is similar to setting up other kinds of event types, but you won’t need to place a tracking code on your website with the click tracker. Contact your CSM for assistance in setting up a click event type.
You can accept or reject clicks from the Pending Clicks screen, which allows you to effectively screen out fraudulent clicks. Clicks that are not rejected become actions. You will be paying the CPC to partners with specified return and locking settings, that you set in your program’s template terms. You can see the final CPC in the Click Tracker CPC Payouts Report.
If you’re using Shopify to power your sales, impact.com offers a connector app that uses a modified version of our pixel tracking method to integrate with Shopify. Depending on your requirements and implementation, impact.com can use a unique tracking domain to remain compliant with ITP.