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benjah
benjah

Reputation: 660

Is it possible to send date of transaction (not today) using Google Measurement Protocol?

I build application which pull sales data from Amazon and push it to Google Analytics.

I'm "hitting" transaction to Analytics and it's all works fine, the problem is that in Amazon the sales data updated after 48 hours (maximum) so I need to pull the report two days later.

Does anyone know if there's a way to send the date of the transaction? Can't find it in the Measurement Protocol API.

Thank you all, Peace and love :)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1801

Answers (2)

quixote
quixote

Reputation: 33

You can try posting a Custom Dimension for each event you send, where the dimension is formatted to the date-time:-

e.g. &t=event&cd1=20170423081321&cm1=24 etc

Only problem is: when you generate a GA custom report, the values are accumulated per day. If anyone knows how to get round that, would love to hear it!

Upvotes: 0

Eike Pierstorff
Eike Pierstorff

Reputation: 32780

Not really. You have the queue time parameter (offset between current time and time the data was tracked), but as it says in the documentation:

Values greater than four hours may lead to hits not being processed.

"May" indicates that this is not a completely fixed limit but I'm pretty sure that 48 hours are not covered (Philipp Walton, a Google engineer who frequents SO once mentioned that the queue time limit is somehow related to timezones and rollover between days, so I'd guess that two days are way to long).

Apart from that there is as of yet no way to set a date for a hit.

Upvotes: 1

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