How to fix gtm audit on Shopify Plus
Install Google Tag Manager on your store and configure GA4 with ecommerce event tracking (view_item, add_to_cart, purchase) so you can measure what's driving revenue.
Steps for Shopify Plus
- Follow all standard Shopify steps above. On Shopify Plus, you additionally have access to the checkout.liquid file (Admin → Themes → Edit Code → checkout.liquid), which lets you add the GTM snippet and custom dataLayer pushes directly on the checkout pages for more accurate begin_checkout and purchase event tracking.
- Use 'Elevar' (purpose-built for Shopify Plus) for server-side GA4 tracking and full ecommerce dataLayer coverage including checkout steps.
- Ensure you do not duplicate purchase events between GTM/GA4 and any native Shopify Google channel integration — disable one.
<!-- GTM Head Snippet — paste inside <head> -->
<script>(function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start':
new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],
j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src=
'https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f);
})(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-XXXXXX');</script>
<!-- GTM Body Snippet — paste immediately after opening <body> -->
<noscript><iframe src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-XXXXXX"
height="0" width="0" style="display:none;visibility:hidden"></iframe></noscript>
<!-- Example GA4 purchase dataLayer push (server or theme renders this on order-confirmation page) -->
<script>
window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];
dataLayer.push({
event: 'purchase',
ecommerce: {
transaction_id: 'T_12345',
value: 59.99,
currency: 'USD',
items: [{
item_id: 'SKU_001',
item_name: 'Blue Widget',
price: 29.99,
quantity: 2
}]
}
});
</script>What is gtm audit?
Google Tag Manager (GTM) is a free tool from Google that lets you add and manage marketing and analytics scripts on your website without touching code every time. Inside GTM, you install Google Analytics 4 (GA4) along with ecommerce event tracking — signals that fire whenever a shopper views a product, adds something to their cart, or completes a purchase. Think of GTM as a control panel for all the measurement tags on your store, and GA4 as the reporting dashboard that tells you exactly what those shoppers did.
Without GTM and GA4 ecommerce tracking, you are flying blind: you cannot see which traffic sources, products, or promotions actually generate sales. This means you risk wasting ad budget on campaigns that don't convert, missing opportunities to fix high-abandonment checkout steps, and losing the ability to build remarketing audiences for Google Ads and Meta. GA4's purchase data also feeds Google's Smart Bidding algorithms — without it, paid campaigns perform significantly worse, directly costing you revenue. Many regulations and platform policies also require transparent data practices, so having a properly managed tag infrastructure keeps you in control of what fires on your site.
See the complete Gtm audit guide for every platform and the full background.
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