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Ecommerce Tracking and Reporting System

Looking for a Free Quality Tracking and Reporting System

         

JoeHouse

10:06 pm on Jul 14, 2003 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Hello All

I am looking for a Free Quality Ecommerce Tracking and Reporting System to put on my website.

I am looking for as many bells and whistles that a free tracking report can give you.

Can anyone recommend a good one for me? Thanks!

cfx211

3:57 pm on Jul 15, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I have found that the best ecommerce tracking systems are built internally. You don't need bells and whistles, just a system that tracks things exactly the way you need them to be tracked. This usually just involves capturing your key data by writing it out to DB tables.

Wild_Cujo

4:43 pm on Jul 15, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I have found that the best ecommerce tracking systems are built internally. You don't need bells and whistles, just a system that tracks things exactly the way you need them to be tracked. This usually just involves capturing your key data by writing it out to DB tables

I agree 100%.
I built the tracking/reporting system for my company. It took about a month maybe two to develop the core of the tracking and most of the reports; I was just hired in at the time so I had to learn how everything worked while I made the tracking system. There are lots of packages out there to use so to get started you might just do a search for log analyzers, not sure if any are free though, but for ecommerce those don't usually cut it, when it comes down to it nothing will do everything you want it to do until you build it yourself.