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Server-side tracking, e-commerce analytics, and development insights for Magento and Shopify — from the team behind 25+ premium extensions.

The WeltPixel Blog

Server-side tracking, e-commerce analytics, and development insights for Magento and Shopify — from the team behind 25+ premium extensions.

Google Ads Enhanced Conversions on Shopify: Setup, Verification, and Why It Matters
Google Ads Enhanced Conversions on Shopify: Setup, Verification, and Why It Matters
Quick AnswerGoogle Ads Enhanced Conversions improves attribution by sending hashed first-party data (email, phone, address) along with each conversion event [1]. On Shopify there are three install paths: Shopify's native... Read more...
What Is Server-Side Google Tag Manager (sGTM)? Plain-English Guide for Shopify Merchants
What Is Server-Side Google Tag Manager (sGTM)? Plain-English Guide for Shopify Merchants
Quick AnswerServer-side Google Tag Manager (sGTM) is a self-hosted container that receives browser events from your storefront and forwards them to ad-platform APIs (Meta CAPI, Google Ads, TikTok, GA4) from... Read more...
Pinterest Tracking on Shopify 2026: What Works, What Doesn't
Pinterest Tracking on Shopify 2026: What Works, What Doesn't
Quick AnswerShopify's native Pinterest sales channel installs the browser-side Pinterest tag automatically [2]. Whether it also forwards events to Pinterest's Conversions API (CAPI) server-side depends on your Shopify channel version... Read more...
Meta CAPI on Shopify 2026: Native Channel vs. GTM vs. App
Meta CAPI on Shopify 2026: Native Channel vs. GTM vs. App
Quick AnswerNo, you do not need GTM to run Meta Conversions API on Shopify. Three options exist: Shopify's native Facebook & Instagram sales channel (fires CAPI server-side automatically), a GTM... Read more...
Shopify Plus Tracking 2026: 4 Surfaces to Audit at Plus Scale
Shopify Plus Tracking 2026: 4 Surfaces to Audit at Plus Scale
Quick AnswerFour tracking surfaces come up most often at Plus scale: multi-region pixel deduplication across Shopify Markets, Hydrogen/headless attribution across custom domains, pixel coverage on customer account pages, and admin... Read more...
How Server-Side Tracking Works on Shopify: GA4, Meta, TikTok & Google Ads
How Server-Side Tracking Works on Shopify: GA4, Meta, TikTok & Google Ads
Quick AnswerShopify server-side tracking sends conversion events from your server directly to GA4 (via Measurement Protocol [2]), Meta (via Conversions API [3]), TikTok (via Events API [4]), and Google Ads... Read more...
Shopify Web Pixels API: Plain-English Guide for Marketers in 2026
Shopify Web Pixels API: Plain-English Guide for Marketers in 2026
Quick AnswerThe Web Pixels API is Shopify's official way for tracking and analytics tools to listen to what shoppers do on your store, with cart and checkout fully covered [1].... Read more...
First-Party Cookies on Shopify: Customer Identity in a Post-Cookie World
First-Party Cookies on Shopify: Customer Identity in a Post-Cookie World
Quick AnswerShopify stores first-party identity signals, customer_id, cart_token, and a session cookie scoped to myshopify.com or your custom domain, all within the same registrable domain as checkout. Safari has blocked... Read more...
GA4 Recommended Ecommerce Events on Shopify: The Complete Canon (view_item to purchase)
GA4 Recommended Ecommerce Events on Shopify: The Complete Canon (view_item to purchase)
Quick AnswerGA4 defines 11 recommended ecommerce events. Shopify's native Google channel fires most of them automatically (view_item_list, view_item, add_to_cart, begin_checkout, add_shipping_info, add_payment_info, and purchase) [3]. Two events in the standard... Read more...
Shopify Checkout Extensibility: What It Broke for Tracking
Shopify Checkout Extensibility: What It Broke for Tracking
Quick AnswerShopify deprecated checkout.liquid for Shopify Plus stores and replaced it with Checkout Extensibility (App Blocks + Web Pixels API). Any tracking that relied on custom JavaScript injected into checkout.liquid... Read more...
Server-Side Tagging on Shopify: sGTM vs Native App (Which Path Wins in 2026)
Server-Side Tagging on Shopify: sGTM vs Native App (Which Path Wins in 2026)
Quick AnswerTwo real architectures exist for server-side tagging on Shopify in 2026: a self-hosted Google Tag Manager server-side (sGTM) container running on Cloud Run or App Engine, and a native... Read more...
TikTok Events API on Shopify: Server-Side Setup Guide
TikTok Events API on Shopify: Server-Side Setup Guide
Quick AnswerShopify's native TikTok channel does not send server-side Events API calls as of 2026. To get browser pixel plus server-side coverage with proper event_id deduplication, you need a third-party... Read more...

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