Add past ecommerce data to Google Analytics

Question

My question is: How do I add previous sale data to Google Analytics so that GA will display the information on the correct dates? (I could just add them all right now, but then GA will show 50 some-odd orders for this date/time).

I found this: Manually adding e-commerce transactions in Google Analytics but that answer is missing some key information.

E-commerce tracking had not been running for several months, so I want to add that data into Google Analytics.

I have no issue pulling the necessary order information, but (as a user asked in the comments) how do I tell Google Analytics what date those orders are from?

Answer 1

you technically can't do such thing, unfortunately. If you look at available parameters for Analytics requests, you can't set date/time manually.

Answer 2

You can try the qt parameter. However, they don't guarantee that with more then 4 hours item will be included.