fix: associate a value/revenue amount on refunded donations
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Bug Report
User Story
As a site admin, I want refunded donations to reflect a negative revenue amount so that my revenue amounts are accurate.
Current Behavior
Currently the revenue amount remains the same even after a refund. The refund beacon is sent, and received, but nothing to do with revenue is stored.
Expected Behavior
I expect (for example that if I refund $20 that the reports would show a -20
next to the revenue for that day.
Bug Type
- I am not sure whether this functionality ever worked as expected.
Steps to Reproduce
- Refund a donation
- Check the donation notes to confirm the refund beacon was sent.
- Check Google analytics and see the refund shows up as an event
- Check the revenue and see that it is unaffected by the event.
Possible Solution
In the array here:
give-google-analytics/includes/actions.php
Lines 192 to 202 in b81190e
Pass a tr
parameter (per https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/protocol/v1/parameters#tr )
Not sure if that number needs to be positive or negative.
Related
https://secure.helpscout.net/conversation/909253693/43843?folderId=848135
Acceptance Criteria
- Refunds are associated with a negative revenue event in GA
- If there is a reason for why this is not possible, or there's a better way, the Support team understands how to communicate that to customers
@Benunc Has there been any forward momentum here? The customer has followed up asking for an update
@Benunc I research on this and found that refund does not directly remove from revenue.
https://babbagesystems.com/2015/01/06/refunds-in-google-analytics/
I think we have to do Refund data import to reduce the amount from revenue. since my account does not have permission, so I can not test this functionality.
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6066862?hl=en
https://support.google.com/analytics/topic/6064627
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6014861?hl=en&ref_topic=6231190
cc: @DevinWalker
@Benunc @ravinderk and myself discussed this on Slack and the issue isn't with our code, it's with:
- Understanding of how GA works on our team
- Educating our team and providing text to send to customers who don't understand
- Writing of the documentation to educate customers on how it works. The blog post above is a great reference point.
Here's the Doc on that: https://app.asana.com/0/1143212002851345/1156274118675737