Adam Goodrich

Ok... so as promised I am sharing some learning back to the community.
First - while I am not new to Google Analytics, I am new to Google Analytics 4 / GA4... and there is a lot of confusing information out there. GA4 is infinitely superior in my opinion, so it's worth the effort to dig into it so that I can get the metrics I want.
I found that there was so much information out there on the internet, and a lot of it was out of date. So to bring me up to speed I went to Udemy, and subscribed to their Personal Learning subscription. The first month is free, and the rest is around $26/mth... an amazing deal since there is so much content there.
I then started working my way through this course... it included free in that first month:
Master Google Analytics 4 Reports and GTM Basics in 2022
https://www.udemy.com/course/google-analytics-4-with-tag-manager/
This gave me some background information and was extremely helpful.
Then - I fixed the mistake that I had made... I had put my GA4 config on my site.
What you actually need to do is create a GTM (Google Tag Manager) account, and create a special tag that routes events from GTM through to GA4.
In all the reading I have done, it seems mixed as to whether you should also create a Universal Analytics account and also route those events. I chose not to as I want to craft the reports I get out of it and wanted to keep it 'clean'.
The next big trick is to work out how to get Invision events from GTM through to GA4. That was nontrivial as well... and while I know what I wanted to do ... I was still a bit confused... and then I found this web page... excellent!

Track Events with Google Analytics 4 (GA4) and Google Tag Manager (analyticsmania.com)
The Invision events are non-standard from GA4. As this is new, and GA4 is the future of analytics from google, then why not use their standard events - the whole thing would largely have just worked.
So I routed the account_login event from invision through to the GA4 login event, and the account_register event from invision through to the GA4 sign_up event. Flick to debug view... and finally, the more detailed events I wanted to see are flowing through!
It's been quite the learning journey... and my recommendation for the invision team is to create a video tutorial where you take people through this from end to end.
Now... for the Invision team when will we be getting commerce events... which among other things is kind of the point of all of this?
Please also, do not make subscriptions a second-class citizen. It's the primary way I want to run my site.
Another thing with subscriptions that I get all the time is a request from my customers to get a special deal on them (as we want to encourage our existing customers to come over to our invision site). I am happy enough to do this, but I do not want this listed on my main page as then it would massively devalue our normal subscription. So an 'unlisted' version for subscriptions as well would be awesome... something where I can approve the subscription before it is switched on for the customer.
Great work from the Invision team... once you work your way through all of this, it opens up many cool use cases for the platform!

Ok... so as promised I am sharing some learning back to the community.
First - while I am not new to Google Analytics, I am new to Google Analytics 4 / GA4... and there is a lot of confusing information out there. GA4 is infinitely superior in my opinion, so it's worth the effort to dig into it so that I can get the metrics I want.
I found that there was so much information out there on the internet, and a lot of it was out of date. So to bring me up to speed I went to Udemy, and subscribed to their Personal Learning subscription. The first month is free, and the rest is around $26/mth... an amazing deal since there is so much content there.
I then started working my way through this course... it included free in that first month:
Master Google Analytics 4 Reports and GTM Basics in 2022
https://www.udemy.com/course/google-analytics-4-with-tag-manager/
This gave me some background information and was extremely helpful.
Then - I fixed the mistake that I had made... I had put my GA4 config on my site.
What you actually need to do is create a GTM (Google Tag Manager) account, and create a special tag that routes events from GTM through to GA4.
In all the reading I have done, it seems mixed as to whether you should also create a Universal Analytics account and also route those events. I chose not to as I want to craft the reports I get out of it and wanted to keep it 'clean'.
The next big trick is to work out how to get Invision events from GTM through to GA4. That was nontrivial as well... and while I know what I wanted to do ... I was still a bit confused... and then I found this web page... excellent!

Track Events with Google Analytics 4 (GA4) and Google Tag Manager (analyticsmania.com)
The Invision events are non-standard from GA4. As this is new, and GA4 is the future of analytics from google, then why not use their standard events - the whole thing would largely have just worked.
So I routed the account_login event from invision through to the GA4 login event, and the account_register event from invision through to the GA4 sign_up event. Flick to debug view... and finally, the more detailed events I wanted to see are flowing through!
It's been quite the learning journey... and my recommendation for the invision team is to create a video tutorial where you take people through this from end to end.
Now... for the Invision team when will we be getting commerce events... which among other things is kind of the point of all of this?
Please also, do not make subscriptions a second-class citizen. It's the primary way I want to run my site.
Another thing with subscriptions that I get all the time is a request from my customers to get a special deal on them (as we want to encourage our existing customers to come over to our invision site). I am happy enough to do this, but I do not want this listed on my main page as then it would massively devalue our normal subscription. So an 'unlisted' version for subscriptions as well would be awesome... something where I can approve the subscription before it is switched on for the customer.
Great work from the Invision team... once you work your way through all of this, it opens up many cool use cases for the platform!

Ok... so as promised I am sharing some learning back to the community.
First - while I am not new to Google Analytics, I am new to Google Analytics 4 / GA4... and there is a lot of confusing information out there. GA4 is infinitely superior in my opinion, so it's worth the effort to dig into it so that I can get the metrics I want.
I found that there was so much information out there on the internet, and a lot of it was out of date. So to bring me up to speed I went to Udemy, and subscribed to their Personal Learning subscription. The first month is free, and the rest is around $26/mth... an amazing deal since there is so much content there.
I then started working my way through this course... it included free in that first month:
Master Google Analytics 4 Reports and GTM Basics in 2022
https://www.udemy.com/course/google-analytics-4-with-tag-manager/
This gave me some background information and was extremely helpful.
Then - I fixed the mistake that I had made... I had put my GA4 config on my site.
What you actually need to do is create a GTM (Google Tag Manager) account, and create a special tag that routes events from GTM through to GA4.
In all the reading I have done, it seems mixed as to whether you should also create a Universal Analytics account and also route those events. I chose not to as I want to craft the reports I get out of it and wanted to keep it 'clean'.
The next big trick is to work out how to get Invision events from GTM through to GA4. That was nontrivial as well... and while I know what I wanted to do ... I was still a bit confused... and then I found this web page... excellent!

Track Events with Google Analytics 4 (GA4) and Google Tag Manager (analyticsmania.com)
The Invision events are non-standard from GA4. As this is new, and GA4 is the future of analytics from google, then why not use their standard events - the whole thing would largely have just worked.
So I routed the account_login event from invision through to the GA4 login event, and the account_register event from invision through to the GA4 sign_up event. Flick to debug view... and finally, the more detailed events I wanted to see are flowing through!
It's been quite the learning journey... and my recommendation for the invision team is to create a video tutorial where you take people through this from end to end.
Now... for the Invision team when will we be getting commerce events... which among other things is kind of the point of all of this?
Please also, do not make subscriptions a second-class citizen. It's the primary way I want to run my site.
Another thing with subscriptions that I get all the time is a request from my customers to get a special deal on them (as we want to encourage our existing customers to come over to our invision site). I am happy enough to do this, but I do not want this listed on my main page as then it would massively devalue our normal subscription. So an 'unlisted' version for subscriptions as well would be awesome... something where I can approve the subscription before it is switched on for the customer.
Great work from the Invision team... once you work your way through all of this, it opens up many cool use cases for the platform!

Ok... so as promised I am sharing some learning back to the community.
First - while I am not new to Google Analytics, I am new to Google Analytics 4 / GA4... and there is a lot of confusing information out there. GA4 is infinitely superior in my opinion, so it's worth the effort to dig into it so that I can get the metrics I want.
I found that there was so much information out there on the internet, and a lot of it was out of date. So to bring me up to speed I went to Udemy, and subscribed to their Personal Learning subscription. The first month is free, and the rest is around $26/mth... an amazing deal since there is so much content there.
I then started working my way through this course... it included free in that first month:
Master Google Analytics 4 Reports and GTM Basics in 2022
https://www.udemy.com/course/google-analytics-4-with-tag-manager/
This gave me some background information and was extremely helpful.
Then - I fixed the mistake that I had made... I had put my GA4 config on my site.
What you actually need to do is create a GTM (Google Tag Manager) account, and create a special tag that routes events from GTM through to GA4.
In all the reading I have done, it seems mixed as to whether you should also create a Universal Analytics account and also route those events. I chose not to as I want to craft the reports I get out of it and wanted to keep it 'clean'.
The next big trick is to work out how to get Invision events from GTM through to GA4. That was nontrivial as well... and while I know what I wanted to do ... I was still a bit confused... and then I found this web page... excellent!

Track Events with Google Analytics 4 (GA4) and Google Tag Manager (analyticsmania.com)
The Invision events are non-standard from GA4. As this is new, and GA4 is the future of analytics from google, then why not use their standard events - the whole thing would largely have just worked.
So I routed the account_login event from invision through to the GA4 login event, and the account_register event from invision through to the GA4 sign_up event. Flick to debug view... and finally, the more detailed events I wanted to see are flowing through!
It's been quite the learning journey... and my recommendation for the invision team is to create a video tutorial where you take people through this from end to end.
Now... for the Invision team when will we be getting commerce events... which among other things is kind of the point of all of this?
Please also, do not make subscriptions a second-class citizen. It's the primary way I want to run my site.
Another thing with subscriptions that I get all the time is a request from my customers to get a special deal on them (as we want to encourage our existing customers to come over to our invision site). I am happy enough to do this, but I do not want this listed on my main page as then it would massively devalue our normal subscription. So an 'unlisted' version for subscriptions as well would be awesome... something where I can approve the subscription before it is switched on for the customer.
Great work from the Invision team... once you work your way through all of this, it opens up many cool use cases for the platform!

Thank you very much for your feedback there. Its very much appreciated, and Im sure some will find this helpful. We do indeed have on our list to sort out some documentation on how to get this set up with GA4. With the items you wish to see in the future, please post these up within the suggestions area of our community, which is where we would pick these up. 

I am seeing this at the top of my html... but still not seeing these events in GA.
Oh... and what I meant about debug mode.. you can show events in debug mode in GA. You add a plugin to your browser.. and you see whats happening on that session via the debug mode.
No debug events are showing, as I have not connected my browser.

And here is snippet of dump from web site.

 

Hi,
I have been using Invision for 6 months now, and have in general been very impressed with it.
I use my site for customer support, and I also use subscriptions and plan to introduce product sales as well.
As part of this update in the way I am running my business, I want to do a lot more with metrics, and integrations to other systems in order to do more with automation.
Google now suggests that you swap all analytics over to GA4, so I did, and my initial sense of this is very positive. However, it does not give me any metrics on conversions/monetization through my site, and this kind of defeats its purpose.
Can someone please advise or give some pointers on what I need to do to set this up? I can not find any relevant information anywhere.
Thanks,
Adam.

We’ve listed to the feedback:)
In an upcoming release( not 4.7.0) the content type header will be configurable. 

This isn't a bad feature idea. It wouldn't take much to allow the option of showing specific custom member fields on an invoice.

I'll add it to our internal tracker.

Have you perhaps switched off the ability for that user to actually see profiles at a module level? You would be unable to see settings that dont apply to a group, and that would be the case if there is no over all permissions.

Thanks!

A cancellation can be reinstated. A suspended item cannot and access to it is immediately removed

The renewal itself works in the same manner as subscriptions. 

Why are we not able to apply vouchers / coupons to subscriptions ? 
I want to drive my existing customer base to subscribe by offering them a time limited incentive... 
Am i missing something ?