Updated January 1, 2021
What is the Reports & Dashboards? B2C Commerce Reports & Dashboards provides enhanced analytics and reporting capabilities. Reports & Dashboards gives business users easy-to-read dashboards that offer insight into revenue, top selling products, profitability of promotions, and more. Ecommerce teams can: Track revenue for a selected period to see daily highs and lows. Review the performance of Einstein Recommendations and identify optimization opportunities. See top-selling products down to the SKU level and identify co-buying product trends to identify movers and shakers such as products that have a significant sales increase over a previous period. Track promotion performance and profitability. Review dashboards across digital channels and select custom date ranges to compare sites, customer or device types, and more. See results for a single site or across all sites within a realm and for a specified period. View technical metrics for requests and response times for controllers and Open Commerce API (OCAPI). See real-time sales and performance for select data, updated to the minute.
What are the benefits of Reports & Dashboards? The Reports & Dashboards app calculates reliable storefront performance data. Merchandisers, marketers, and ecommerce teams can use the data to make smarter, more informed business decisions across sales, promotions, and products. For example, business users can easily filter by customer type, site, locale, device type and much more. The Reports & Dashboards app provides the accuracy and granular insight that third-party analytics providers and previous Business Manager capabilities don’t.
How do I set up User Access?> A user with Account Manager administrator credentials grants user access to the Reports & Dashboards portal. The administrator adds a Reports & Dashboards role in Account Manager to set up user access. Set up User Access documentation. If you require site-specific access management for Reports & Dashboards, ask your Salesforce Success Manager for assistance.
How is data collected? Are there differences between how Business Manager Analytics and Reports & Dashboards collect data? All Historical Reports reporting relies on your storefront templates, including calls to Analytics reporting URLs. The system records these calls in logs that populate Business Manager's Analytics reports. The specific integration differs between SiteGenesis and the Salesforce Reference Application (Salesforce Reference Architecture (SFRA)). Reports & Dashboards collects data for most reports automatically by an event such as order creation or adding to a cart on the B2C Commerce application. There are some exceptions. Site Search Reports. To improve performance of on-site search, some search results cache and don’t call back to the application. To make sure that all searches are captured, have your developers verify the storefront templates meet these requirements: `<isobject view…>` tags–isobject Element. `<isobject view=”searchhit”>` is used on search results pages to indicate each product returned within a search result. `<isobject view=”none”>` is used on the no search results page to indicate a no results search. `<isactivedatahead>` is included in the head of your search results and no search results page templates-Add isactivedatahead Tags. `<isanalyticsoff/>` isn’t included in your search results and no search results page templates. If this tag is present, search doesn’t track correctly–isanalyticsoff Element. Traffic Reports. To categorize human visits vs bot visits, use these tags:`<isactivedatahead>` To track traffic, include this tag on all pages–Add isactivedatahead Tags. `<isanalyticsoff/>` Make sure that this tag isn’t present on any pages that track analytics. To turn off tracking for certain pages, use this tag to prevent traffic tracking–isanalyticsoff Element. Traffic, Shopper Journey dashboard. Because checkout steps can vary by site, set up the checkout steps reporting for your site. Tag each step in checkout templates to give Reports & Dashboards the correct step number and name for your checkout process. See the Checkout URL Pattern section of the Analytics Reporting URL Patterns documentation of implementation guidance. Einstein reporting relies on Einstein activity tracking, see: Developer QA guidelines.
Can I view Reports & Dashboard data for my Development and Staging instances? Starting with release 26.1, view Reports & Dashboards data for non-production instances, including on-demand sandboxes (ODS), Development instances, Staging instances, and Production instances in designated test realms (realms not serving live traffic). To use Reports & Dashboards with a non-production instance, turn on the Enable Reports & Dashboards Data Tracking feature switch. For instructions, see Set Feature Switches (Toggles) in B2C Commerce. After turning on the feature switch, wait up to 2 hours for provisioning to complete. Access Reports & Dashboards using the non-production URL: `https://ccac.stg.analytics.commercecloud.salesforce.com` Note The Real-Time Performance dashboard and Einstein Dashboard are not available for non-production instances.
Are there filters on data collection such as automatic bot or spam traffic filters? There are no filters at data collection. But you can Identify and classify traffic reports by robot and nonrobot requests.
How does the platform identify a bot in the Top Robots report in Traffic? Reports & Dashboards filters out data as a robot if one of these conditions is met. Page count is zero and no order was placed User agent class is blank and no order was placed User agent class is crawler and no order was placed User agent class is unrecognized and no order was placed The first case of a zero page count indicates that no javascript code was run. A user who didn’t load javascript is likely a robot session. The list of crawler user agent classes comes from a third-party source.
My realm has multiple sites. When I first land on the dashboard do I see consolidated metrics for all my sites? Yes. By default, you see consolidated metrics from all sites within the realm. Filter by site and locale for a more granular view.
How is currency collected and displayed? For every order the system processes, Reports & Dashboards uses an externally provided exchange rate to convert the local currency that’s used to place the order. Reports & Dashboards converts order totals from local currency to the realm and site configured currencies. The realm currency is configured in Reports & Dashboards administration settings. The site currency is configured in Business Manager. Reports & Dashboards also converts the local currency to US dollars (USD). When viewing reports, if you select sites that have different currencies, all values appear in the realm currency. But if you select sites with the same site currency, all values appear in the site currency.
Can I change the reporting currency for my analytics? Yes, a Reports & Dashboards admin can change the report currency. Note After the currency is changed, the historical data doesn’t change. A currency change is at the platform level, not the user level. Salesforce recommends that you set the correct realm currency during site setup.
When exporting the individual reports, why is the data in USD when my site doesn’t use this currency? Exported reports include monetary values in three currencies. Reports & Dashboards converts currencies where necessary based on an exchange rate provided by an external service. Realm currency `(prefix std_)` is configured in Reports & Dashboards. Site currency `(prefix ste_)` is the default site currency configured in Business Manager. Data is populated only when all reported sites use the same site currency. USD `(prefix usd_)`
When is an order counted in Reports & Dashboards? An order is counted when it’s successfully placed and persisted to the B2C Commerce platform database. Generally, an order is counted when an order confirmation page indicates a successful order. If the order is changed such as when it’s canceled, the Reports & Dashboards app isn’t updated.
The Sales dashboard shows the device breakdown. When is a device Unknown? Reports & Dashboards derives device information from user agent info. Unknown is when Reports & Dashboards can't determine the device type from the user agent info.
What constitutes the channels Storefront, Endless Aisle, Customer Service Center, Call Center, and Marketplace? Channels typically are set in code during basket creation. See: Order Origination Attributes documentation
What do the referrers direct and internal mean in the Top Referrers Traffic report? Reports & Dashboards classifies traffic as direct when there’s no referrer information. Reports & Dashboards classifies traffic as internal when the top-level domain in the referrer information is the same as the storefront.
My Company wants to generate a new REALM ID and move an existing site to the new realm (Realm Split). Which Reports & Dashboards analytic elements don’t transfer to the new realm? Payment instruments associated with orders can’t be transferred. The instruments are encrypted data, which require the seeds. Historical Reports data starts fresh in the new realm. From the Reports & Dashboards dropdown, choose the old realm ID and find historical data. After the new realm is established, the data from the two realms isn’t combined. For more information see: Realm Split FAQ
Can I customize Reports & Dashboards? Not at this time. Post your ideas and requests for new features on IdeaExchange.
Can I configure reports to be emailed to me? Not at this time. Post your ideas and requests for new features on IdeaExchange.

Updated January 1, 2021

What is the Reports & Dashboards?

B2C Commerce Reports & Dashboards provides enhanced analytics and reporting capabilities. Reports & Dashboards gives business users easy-to-read dashboards that offer insight into revenue, top selling products, profitability of promotions, and more.

Ecommerce teams can:

Track revenue for a selected period to see daily highs and lows.
Review the performance of Einstein Recommendations and identify optimization opportunities.
See top-selling products down to the SKU level and identify co-buying product trends to identify movers and shakers such as products that have a significant sales increase over a previous period.
Track promotion performance and profitability.
Review dashboards across digital channels and select custom date ranges to compare sites, customer or device types, and more.
See results for a single site or across all sites within a realm and for a specified period.
View technical metrics for requests and response times for controllers and Open Commerce API (OCAPI).
See real-time sales and performance for select data, updated to the minute.

What are the benefits of Reports & Dashboards?

The Reports & Dashboards app calculates reliable storefront performance data. Merchandisers, marketers, and ecommerce teams can use the data to make smarter, more informed business decisions across sales, promotions, and products. For example, business users can easily filter by customer type, site, locale, device type and much more. The Reports & Dashboards app provides the accuracy and granular insight that third-party analytics providers and previous Business Manager capabilities don’t.

How do I set up User Access?>

A user with Account Manager administrator credentials grants user access to the Reports & Dashboards portal. The administrator adds a Reports & Dashboards role in Account Manager to set up user access. Set up User Access documentation. If you require site-specific access management for Reports & Dashboards, ask your Salesforce Success Manager for assistance.

How is data collected? Are there differences between how Business Manager Analytics and Reports & Dashboards collect data?

All Historical Reports reporting relies on your storefront templates, including calls to Analytics reporting URLs. The system records these calls in logs that populate Business Manager's Analytics reports. The specific integration differs between SiteGenesis and the Salesforce Reference Application (Salesforce Reference Architecture (SFRA)).

Reports & Dashboards collects data for most reports automatically by an event such as order creation or adding to a cart on the B2C Commerce application. There are some exceptions.

Site Search Reports. To improve performance of on-site search, some search results cache and don’t call back to the application. To make sure that all searches are captured, have your developers verify the storefront templates meet these requirements:
- <isobject view…> tags–isobject Element.
  - <isobject view=”searchhit”> is used on search results pages to indicate each product returned within a search result.
  - <isobject view=”none”> is used on the no search results page to indicate a no results search.
- <isactivedatahead> is included in the head of your search results and no search results page templates-Add isactivedatahead Tags.
- <isanalyticsoff/> isn’t included in your search results and no search results page templates. If this tag is present, search doesn’t track correctly–isanalyticsoff Element.
Traffic Reports. To categorize human visits vs bot visits, use these tags:<isactivedatahead> To track traffic, include this tag on all pages–Add isactivedatahead Tags.
- <isanalyticsoff/> Make sure that this tag isn’t present on any pages that track analytics. To turn off tracking for certain pages, use this tag to prevent traffic tracking–isanalyticsoff Element.
Traffic, Shopper Journey dashboard. Because checkout steps can vary by site, set up the checkout steps reporting for your site. Tag each step in checkout templates to give Reports & Dashboards the correct step number and name for your checkout process. See the Checkout URL Pattern section of the Analytics Reporting URL Patterns documentation of implementation guidance.
Einstein reporting relies on Einstein activity tracking, see: Developer QA guidelines.

Can I view Reports & Dashboard data for my Development and Staging instances?

Starting with release 26.1, view Reports & Dashboards data for non-production instances, including on-demand sandboxes (ODS), Development instances, Staging instances, and Production instances in designated test realms (realms not serving live traffic).

To use Reports & Dashboards with a non-production instance, turn on the Enable Reports & Dashboards Data Tracking feature switch. For instructions, see Set Feature Switches (Toggles) in B2C Commerce. After turning on the feature switch, wait up to 2 hours for provisioning to complete.

Access Reports & Dashboards using the non-production URL: https://ccac.stg.analytics.commercecloud.salesforce.com

Note The Real-Time Performance dashboard and Einstein Dashboard are not available for non-production instances.

Are there filters on data collection such as automatic bot or spam traffic filters?

There are no filters at data collection. But you can Identify and classify traffic reports by robot and nonrobot requests.

How does the platform identify a bot in the Top Robots report in Traffic?

Reports & Dashboards filters out data as a robot if one of these conditions is met.

Page count is zero and no order was placed
User agent class is blank and no order was placed
User agent class is crawler and no order was placed
User agent class is unrecognized and no order was placed

The first case of a zero page count indicates that no javascript code was run. A user who didn’t load javascript is likely a robot session. The list of crawler user agent classes comes from a third-party source.

My realm has multiple sites. When I first land on the dashboard do I see consolidated metrics for all my sites?

Yes. By default, you see consolidated metrics from all sites within the realm. Filter by site and locale for a more granular view.

How is currency collected and displayed?

For every order the system processes, Reports & Dashboards uses an externally provided exchange rate to convert the local currency that’s used to place the order. Reports & Dashboards converts order totals from local currency to the realm and site configured currencies. The realm currency is configured in Reports & Dashboards administration settings. The site currency is configured in Business Manager. Reports & Dashboards also converts the local currency to US dollars (USD).

When viewing reports, if you select sites that have different currencies, all values appear in the realm currency. But if you select sites with the same site currency, all values appear in the site currency.

Can I change the reporting currency for my analytics?

Yes, a Reports & Dashboards admin can change the report currency.

Note After the currency is changed, the historical data doesn’t change. A currency change is at the platform level, not the user level. Salesforce recommends that you set the correct realm currency during site setup.

When exporting the individual reports, why is the data in USD when my site doesn’t use this currency?

Exported reports include monetary values in three currencies. Reports & Dashboards converts currencies where necessary based on an exchange rate provided by an external service.

Realm currency (prefix std_) is configured in Reports & Dashboards.
Site currency (prefix ste_) is the default site currency configured in Business Manager. Data is populated only when all reported sites use the same site currency.
USD (prefix usd_)

When is an order counted in Reports & Dashboards?

An order is counted when it’s successfully placed and persisted to the B2C Commerce platform database. Generally, an order is counted when an order confirmation page indicates a successful order. If the order is changed such as when it’s canceled, the Reports & Dashboards app isn’t updated.

The Sales dashboard shows the device breakdown. When is a device Unknown?

Reports & Dashboards derives device information from user agent info. Unknown is when Reports & Dashboards can't determine the device type from the user agent info.

What constitutes the channels Storefront, Endless Aisle, Customer Service Center, Call Center, and Marketplace?

Channels typically are set in code during basket creation. See: Order Origination Attributes documentation

What do the referrers direct and internal mean in the Top Referrers Traffic report?

Reports & Dashboards classifies traffic as direct when there’s no referrer information. Reports & Dashboards classifies traffic as internal when the top-level domain in the referrer information is the same as the storefront.

My Company wants to generate a new REALM ID and move an existing site to the new realm (Realm Split). Which Reports & Dashboards analytic elements don’t transfer to the new realm?

Payment instruments associated with orders can’t be transferred. The instruments are encrypted data, which require the seeds.
Historical Reports data starts fresh in the new realm.
From the Reports & Dashboards dropdown, choose the old realm ID and find historical data. After the new realm is established, the data from the two realms isn’t combined.

For more information see: Realm Split FAQ

Can I customize Reports & Dashboards?

Not at this time. Post your ideas and requests for new features on IdeaExchange.

Can I configure reports to be emailed to me?

Not at this time. Post your ideas and requests for new features on IdeaExchange.