If you use Google Analytics to track user behavior on your website, you might also want to gain similar insights into your iPaper Flipbooks.
This guide assumes you are familiar with Google Analytics properties, views, and tracking IDs. As a third-party tracking tool, iPaper doesn't offer support on setup, or implementation of GA4 with your iPaper account.
📖 This article explains:
Adding your Google Analytics Property Tracking ID To iPaper
1. Find your Tracking ID
1. Find your Tracking ID
Sign in to your Analytics account.
Click Admin cog-wheel in the bottom, left-hand corner.
Open the Property settings from the vertical menu.
From the drop-down menu, select Data collection and modification.
Click Data Streams.
Select your Data Stream or add a new one. See more on that here.
Once you have opened your Web stream details, you can copy your Measurement ID, which you'll find on the right side of the screen.
2. Adding your tracking ID in iPaper
2. Adding your tracking ID in iPaper
Once you have your tracking ID from GA4, it's time to add it to iPaper. You can enter it the settings either on the account level, or specific to each folder.
This guide shows you how to enter it on the account level, but doing so on the folder level is the same process.
On the account (or folder) level, right-click and select Edit default settings.
Click on the Integration section.
From the list of integrations shown in the left-hand, vertical menu, select Google Analytics.
Paste in your GA4 tracking ID in the Analytics tracking ID field.
💡 There is no need to fill in, anything in the Trusted domain section, unless you are setting up cross-domain tracking. You can read more about cross-domain tracking here:
What events are sent from iPaper?
iPaper sends a comprehensive list of events to Google Analytics, when integrating directly with either GA4. An indirect integration, in this case, means that the integration is set up via Google Tag Manager.
You can see the full list of events that iPaper sends, here:
💡 GA4 does not, by default, collect event categories. As such, Flipbook event names are prefixed with 'ipf'. This means that it in GA4 the event names will look like this:
ipf_external_link_click
ipf_load
ipf_product_added_to_basket
We've also made a handy video on finding the iPaper events in your GA4 account, below:
How to set up custom definitions in GA4
Your iPaper account sends a number of event parameters to GA4 that aren't automatically parsed into its event reports. However, these can be configured as custom definitions for custom dimensions in GA4, meaning you can make use of the wealth of data they provide! 🚀
The process for configuring custom dimensions in GA4 needs to be followed for each custom definition you wish to include:
In Google Analytics, select the Admin button.
Next, select Property settings from the vertical menu on the left.
Select Data display from the sub-menu.
From the sub-menu, select Custom definitions.
To create a new custom dimension, click the Create custom dimension button.
Give your custom dimension a name.
Define an event parameter by selecting one from the dropdown menu.
Remember to Save your work.
That's it – your custom definition is now set up. Your event parameters will begin to show in the GA4 Event Report after 24 hours.
💡 GA4 will automatically collect any event parameters that iPaper has sent out, and present them in the drop-down list, meaning you don’t need to enter them yourself.
For further information about using iPaper's events in your Google Analytics reports, read our article about creating and using audiences with Google Analytics 4: