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This is how setup goes with ClickMagick, the tracking platform we recommend. You do not need a developer, an agency or a migration plan: basic setup runs about twenty to thirty minutes, and the guided wizard walks you through every screen of it.
The whole job
Strip away the options and every setup is the same two moves: get the tracking code onto your pages, and get the right parameters onto your ad links. That is basic tracking done.
A single piece of tracking code goes on your website, store or funnel, exactly the way you would add an analytics tag. There are copy-and-paste tutorials for every popular store platform and page builder, so it is usually a matter of finding the right settings box and pasting.
Your ad links carry standard UTM parameters so every click arrives labeled with its source, campaign, ad and keyword. A built-in URL builder writes them for you, which means nothing gets mistyped and nothing gets forgotten.
Your setup path
The two steps above look slightly different depending on what you actually advertise. Here are the usual routes, so you can see which one is yours before you sign up for anything.
The most common case, and the most direct. You paste the snippet into your theme, your store settings or your funnel builder’s tracking-code box, and the guided wizard confirms it is firing before you go any further.
Multi-step funnels with upsells, order bumps and downsells are normal territory here, not an edge case.
Copy, paste, confirmIf you send traffic to somebody else’s offer, you cannot put code on their pages, and you do not need to. You route your traffic through your own tracking links instead, and conversions come back through the network.
There are direct integrations with over a hundred affiliate networks using server-to-server postbacks, so the sale still gets tied to the exact ad that produced it.
No access to their site neededFor deals that finish on a phone call or anywhere away from your website, there is one extra move: you enter the sale when it happens, and the attribution back to the original ad or keyword is handled for you.
This one sits on the higher plans, and it is usually the single biggest hole in a high-ticket advertiser’s reporting.
One extra step, handled for youCustom-built checkouts, odd tech stacks, tools with no native integration. These get handled with flexible webhooks that take a few minutes to point at the right place, a full REST API, or the usual no-code automation platforms.
If your stack is genuinely strange, support has almost certainly seen it before and will get on it with you.
Webhooks, API or automationA few clicks, once
This part is not really setup so much as authorization. You link each ad account once, and after that the data moves in both directions on its own.
Costs get retrieved automatically around the clock so your profit numbers stay current without a spreadsheet, and your accurate conversions get sent back to the platforms in real time so their optimization has something honest to learn from. Platforms without a native integration are covered by webhooks instead.
What to expect
Basic tracking live in twenty to thirty minutes. Everything running, including the advanced pieces, in under an hour.
Features like the conversion feed back to your ad platforms and rule-based click protection ask for a little more setup than the basics, and there is a step-by-step guide for each one.
If you get stuck
Tracking is fiddly by nature, and nobody expects you to figure it out unaided. This is the part people tend to mention first when they talk about switching.
One optional extra worth knowing about: you can point a tracking subdomain of your own at ClickMagick, which is what makes the tracking code effectively unblockable. It is not required to get started, and you can add it later.
Ready when you are
Start the trial, run the wizard, point some live traffic at it, and compare what it reports against what your ad account claims. That comparison is the whole point.
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