LemonAd Integration

LemonAd Integration Overview

The LemonAd and AnyTrack integration is a powerful tool for optimizing performance marketing campaigns. It allows you to easily sync conversion data from LemonAd to the tracking platform, AnyTrack. From there, it can be forwarded on to popular platforms like Google Ads, Facebook Conversion API and Tiktok API with ease. This seamless connection ensures accurate reporting of conversions at all times - giving marketers valuable insights into what's working best in their campaigns so they can make more informed decisions faster!

How does the LemonAd AnyTrack integration work:

Traffic: When visitors land on your website, AnyTrack collects traffic source data and First Party data.
Engagements: When visitors click on your LemonAd affiliate links, AnyTrack does a few things:
1. Collects granular data tied to the OutboundClick.
2. Triggers Event Tracking API requests to your pixels and analytics.
Conversions: When visitors convert on the merchant's website, AnyTrack receives real time conversion data through Postback URL.
Attribution: AnyTrack processes the conversion data and reports it across various reporting sections of the Anytrack Dashboard.
Conversion API: AnyTrack then sends your conversions to your Ad Platforms' Conversion API so you can feed your ad platform's Machine Learning, AI and automatic optimization according to 100% of your conversion data.

Technical details

Reference	Value	Information
Tracking Group	`lemonad`	The Tracking Group reference can be used to activate AutoTag.
Subid Parameter	`clickid`	The Subid Parameter used to pass the AnyTrack `click_id`.
Tracking Method	`Postback URL`	-

Standard Conversions

Event Name	Details	Data Source
`OutboundClick`	When a visitor clicks on LemonAd offer links.	AnyTrack JS Tag
`Lead`	When an order is received in LemonAd.	Postback URL
`Purchase`	When an order is approved in LemonAd.	Postback URL

The LemonAd Postback URL

The Postback URL is fully pre-defined and ready to be implemented with your LemonAd account.

https://t1.anytrack.io/hBtoE3hN/collect/lemonad?offer={offer}&sub1={sub1}&sub2={sub2}&sub3={sub3}&sub4={sub4}&sub5={sub5}&flow={flow}&id={id}&currency={currency}&cost={cost}&ip={ip}&date={date}&status={status}&landing={landing}

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Before you begin
The LemonAd integration requires that the AnyTrack Tracking Tag in the head section of your website or landing pages. Learn now to Install the AnyTrack Tag on your website.

Setup Guide

Step #1: Add LemonAd to your AnyTrack Account

Go to the Integration Catalog, search for LemonAd.

Now click on the LemonAd cardand then Click on Install.

Step #2: Connect your LemonAd account

Copy the predefined Postback URL

Go to your account to access your event tracking settings page.
Click the “edit” settings button
Paste the postback URL
Save

Validate your integration

This section will enable you to validate the main aspects of your setup.

Link tracking

Since Tracking starts when visitors clicks on offer links, you should verify that your links are tracked and AutoTagged.

AutoTag Methods

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Reminder about AutoTag:
AutoTag is a function that is enabled by default through the AnyTrack Tracking Tag, and that appends sub1 & click_id data to affiliate links. Learn more about AutoTag.

Default: By default, AnyTrack automatically identifies and AutoTags LemonAd links found on your website.
AutoScan: AnyTrack scans links that are embedded in redirects plugins and AutoTags them accordingly.
Manual:
- Tracking Group Attribute: You add the tracking group attribute to links according to their tracking requirements. For example: data-tracking-group="lemonad" or rel="lemonad". More about Tracking Group.
- Click ID Token: You Manually append the subid: &sub1=--CLICK-ID-- to the offer link.

Once the links are set up, you can check in your LemonAd account reports and see whether the sub1 parameters are passed to the offer links.

Here is an example of how you would manually update links from lemonad:

<a href="https://example.foo/goto/lemonad" data-tracking-group="lemonad">Hover on theLemonAd Demo   
Link to see the AnyTrack `click_id`</a>

Hover on the LemonAd Demo Link to see the AnyTrack `click_id`

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Tracking Group
Tracking Group refers to the integration technology. For example, LemonAd Tracking Group tracking group is lemonad and ClickBank is clickbank. The Tracking Group

Conversion Tracking

To validate your setup, you should either wait for a conversion or trigger a test conversion yourself and inspect the conversion logs.

LemonAd conversion payload example


{
  "anytrack": "1100l35864",
  "customer_type": "existing",
  "country": "US",
  "referer": "https://www.chewy.com/",
  "search_keyword": null,
  "search_engine_id": null,
  "conversion_time": "1684692689",
  "conversion_id": "1011l2002827904",
  "publisher_reference":"mz7yYainzaN6hkc52QVBg",
  "publisher_commission": "10.57",
  "creative_id": "0",
  "source_referer": null,
  "advertiser_reference": null,
  "conversion_type": "1",
  "creative_type": "0",
  "conversion_reference": "1354998698",
  "metadata_query_string": null,
  "currency": "USD",
  "tracking_method": "clickref",
  "value": "52.85",
  "items": [
    {
      "item_code": null,
      "item_id": "1011l860699483",
      "item_sku": "332503",
      "item_commission": "3.5720",
      "item_type": "S",
      "item_gp": null,
      "item_publisher_commission": "3.5720",
      "item_meta": null,
      "item_status": "1",
      "item_value": "17.8600",
      "item_category": "11130",
      "item_vertical": null
    },
    {
      "item_code": null,
      "item_id": "1011l860699484",
      "item_sku": null,
      "item_commission": "0.0000",
      "item_type": "S",
      "item_gp": null,
      "item_publisher_commission": "0.0000",
      "item_meta": null,
      "item_status": "1",
      "item_value": "0.0000",
      "item_category": "COMMISSION",
      "item_vertical": null
    },
    {
      "item_code": null,
      "item_id": "1101l859617416",
      "item_sku": "677350",
      "item_commission": "6.9980",
      "item_type": "S",
      "item_gp": null,
      "item_publisher_commission": "6.9980",
      "item_meta": null,
      "item_status": "1",
      "item_value": "34.9900",
      "item_category": "2802",
      "item_vertical": null
    }
  ],
  "campaign_id": "1100l517",
  "query_string": null,
  "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 16_4_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.4 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1"
}

FAQ & Troubleshooting

Can I import past conversions into Anytrack?
No. Anytrack can only ingest conversions that have been triggered following a visitor session on your website.
Can I track direct linking campaigns?
Yes, but this requires a custom setup. Please refer to this article.
Can I use a different subid parameter than the one predefined by AnyTrack?
No.
Can I track conversions without the click_id?
No. The click_id passed to the LemonAd links is required to track conversions.
The Conversion Event Name is not what I am expecting, how can I change it?
You can update the Event Mapping in the Integration page.

Take these steps to troubleshoot errors you encounter in AnyTrack

General troubleshooting
- Verify that your tracking tag is set in the head section of your website.
- If you're on the free plan, verify that you didn't reach the monthly traffic limit and upgrade if needed.
Conversion sources
When you are not tracking conversions, or most conversions trigger an error follow the guidelines below.

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Before you reach out to the tech support, please inspect the conversion log to see what type of errors you are getting and try to fix the integration by following these troubleshooting guidelines.

Native integrations
Native integrations refer to platforms that are predefined in the catalog and should provide an error-free data flow.
The most common error is that the click_id is unknown or missing. It happens when AutoTag could not be activated.
- Check that your links are not hidden behind some javascripts or double redirects.
- Check that the links are in a standard a element.
- Try to manually set the tracking group attribute (check the integration guidelines).
- Check whether your offers are not getting traffic from websites where the AnyTrack Tag isn't set.
- If you just installed AnyTrack, errors might be from traffic that wasn't tracked by AnyTrack.
- Conversion data doesn't trigger an error 🔴, but is not validated 🟢:
  - Check that the Postback URL you've set in the integration matches the pre-defined Postback URL we provide.
  - Copy the Event Reference from the Conversion Event Log and contact the support.
- You're not getting any conversions:
- Check that the Postback URL is set and active in your platform.
- Check that you're passing the correct AutoTag sub1 parameter to the offer link.
- Check that the Postback URL is correctly inserted in the custom integration.

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