CookieYes is a popular cookie consent tool that works on any website, and has a WordPress plugin too. It shows your visitors a cookie banner and stops tracking scripts from running until they say yes.
Converly works with CookieYes, so visitors who accept advertisement cookies (CookieYes's name for marketing cookies) are tracked as normal and visitors who decline aren't tracked at all.
To set it up, follow the instructions below:
Installed Converly through Google Tag Manager?
Follow the Google Tag Manager guide instead. The steps below are for sites where the Converly code is pasted straight into the website.
Step 1: Open the Cookie Manager
The first step is to open the Cookie Manager, which is where you tell CookieYes which scripts to hold back.
- If you use the CookieYes website, log in and click Cookie Manager in the top menu.
- If you use the WordPress plugin on its own, go to CookieYes, then Dashboard, then Cookie Manager, and open the Cookie List.
You don't need to move your Converly code. Leave it wherever you pasted it.
Step 2: Add Converly to the Advertisement category
The next step is to add Converly to CookieYes's Advertisement category. Open the Advertisement category and click Add Cookie. Then fill it in like this:
- Cookie ID:
_converly_gclid - Domain: your website's domain (for example
yourcompany.com) - Duration: 90 days
- Description: Converly conversion tracking. Records which ad a visitor clicked so conversions can be reported back to the ad platform.
- Script URL Pattern:
js.converly.io
The Script URL Pattern is the important part. It's what tells CookieYes to hold back the Converly code until a visitor accepts advertisement cookies. The cookie details just describe one of the cookies Converly sets, so it shows up properly in your cookie policy.
Then click Save Draft, followed by Publish changes. Your changes don't go live until you publish them.
You might wonder why you need to do this if CookieYes blocks scripts automatically. Its automatic blocking is built around services it already recognises, and Converly isn't one of them yet. Adding it by hand makes sure it's held back.
Step 3: Test it works
That's it! The final step is to test it, and it only takes a couple of minutes.
First, open a new incognito window (or private window) and go to your website. When the cookie banner appears, decline marketing cookies. Then submit a test entry through one of your forms.
Now open the Activity page in Converly. The test entry should NOT appear there, because Converly never ran for that visitor.
Next, close that window, open another new incognito window, and go to your website again. This time accept marketing cookies (or click accept all), then submit another test entry. Head back to the Activity page, and this time the test conversion should show up within a moment.
If both of those happen, your cookie banner is holding Converly back properly.