In order to easily track and report on book usage statistics of the Palace App, you can configure your Palace Collection Manager to connect to Google Analytics instance.

<aside> 💡 Currently, Google Analytics is the only analytics engine supported for this function.

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There are three components required to use Google Analytics to capture usage from your Palace service:

• A Google Analytics Account so you can establish tracking properties via its collector API

• A Google Analytics web (not app+web) property in your Google Analytics account to so you can create unique tracking ID for circulation and book-related events from Collection Manager

  <aside> 💡 NOTE: Palace does not use app-related Google tracking. All events are sent into the Collection Manager database before being sent on to Google, in order to preserve patron privacy.

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• Custom dimensions configured for the respective Google Analytics account and tracking property code for registering event metadata

Google Help Documentation

See Google Analytics Help for quick start and how-to guides for using and administering Google Analytics.

Before getting started

The Collection Manager can be used for 3 specific uses cases that may affect how you want to configure your Google Analytics integration.

1. Single system / Single Tenant - in this use case you will only need one tracking code for your library.
2. Consortia - in this use case you may only need on tracking code, but need to leverage the "library" dimension measure individual member library circulation events
3. Multi-tenant - in this use case, you may be hosting multiple libraries in a Collection Manager that are of no relationship to one another in terms of ebook service so you will want a single Google Analytics tracking code for the specific library.

Create a property for Palace in your Google Analytics account

Google Help Documentation

See Setting up a Property in Google Analytics to properly set up a web property in your Google Analytics account

Creating the correct property on Google Analytics requires you to:

1. Click the gear icon/the "Admin" menu item on the bottom left
2. Click the blue "Create Property" button in the top of the middle column
3. Create a Property name and set the time zone.