Overarching Domain
Learn how to find your overarching domain.
Overview
Follow this guide to learn how to determine your overarching domain when configuring Elevar’s scripts.
The overarching domain is the root (apex) domain Elevar uses to associate user sessions, attribution data, and events across your website. Selecting the correct overarching domain is required for accurate attribution tracking when using the Elevar API.
Subdomains
If your website pages use subdomains, you could have URLs that look like this:
blog.website.comshop.website.comgo.website.comcheckout.website.com
In this scenario, your overarching domain is website.com.
Subdirectories
If your website pages use subdirectories, you could have URLs that look like this:
website.com/shopwebsite.com/blog
In this scenario, your overarching domain is website.com.
Cross Domain/Different Domains
If your website pages use different domains, you could have URLs that look like this:
website.comshopwebsite.comwebsite-checkout.com
In this scenario, the Elevar Attribution Tracking would not work. You'll need to carry over any attribution from one domain to another for effective attribution tracking.
WARNING
Never include a "http" in the Overarching Domain. The overarching domain should always follow the format of website.com. It should never include an http or https. Adding an http or https can cause attribution data loss.
Common Questions
Can I use my Headless Development URL?
The short answer is, ideally you shouldn't.
Let's say you're building a headless website and your headless url is website-2348923a23vf3.o2.myshopify.dev. If you have a public domain (a.k.a. the URL that your shoppers will use like website.com) you should use that public domain as the overarching domain.
If you don't have a public domain yet and are testing out Elevar on a development store, you can use your Headless URL as the Overarching Domain. In my example above, the overarching domain would be myshopify.dev. Just be sure to change it back after you do get a public domain.