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Complete guide how to setup GA4 on Shopify
Step 15. How to setup user ID for GA4 on Shopify
Upgrade your Reporting Identity providing User IDs because is a one of the method GA4 can associate events with users across different platforms. Thank to providing user ID from your Shopify Google knows that is the same user regardless form example which device they use.
If you want to track your users accurately implementing user ID to GTM is good decision. Here are all steps you need to do:
- You need to specify new data layer variable which will storage your Shopify user id. To do that you need to edit your theme.liquid template adding new variable: customer_id, in the customer details sections which we created before in this step: How to implement GA4 login event on Shopify, and then updated here: How to setup server side tracking for GA4 on Shopify
- Then you have add the same variable do your data layer in checkout additional java script code: Shopify>Settings>Checkout and accounts>Order status page>Additional scripts
and add there the customer_id variable to the GTM data layer section.
- Then you have to create data layer variable: customer_id in your GTM using following setup:
- Then all you need to do is just to add this variable to “fields to set” section of your GA4 – Configutation Tag which we create here: How to implement GA4 Configuration tag in Google Tag Manager?
- Last step is just publish changes of your GTM container.
The next step of our guide is to: GA4 – conversion events
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