AraTheme 1.3 · For WHMCS administrators
The Growth group of the theme manager: visitor statistics, tracking codes, the cookie banner and SEO. They work together — every tracker waits for the visitor's consent.
Tracking & statistics
Built-in statistics (no cookies)
The Dashboard view shows visitors, visits, page views, bounce rate, visit duration, a chart, top pages, entry pages, channels, sources, campaigns, countries, devices, browsers, systems, languages, the store funnel with revenue, who is online now, and a CSV export.
- No cookies, nothing stored in the browser and no outside service. A visitor is recognised for one day only, by a hash that changes every night. Bots and uptime monitors are ignored.
- Choose who is counted, skip signed-in WHMCS admins, skip IP addresses (e.g. your office; a prefix like
203.0.113.covers a range), and how long records are kept (default 395 days, then deleted on their own).
Google Analytics reports in WHMCS (optional)
To see GA4 reports inside the theme manager: enter the GA4 property ID (the number in GA4 → Admin → Property settings, not the G- ID) and a service account key (JSON) with read-only access. The help text under the field lists every step in Google Cloud. The key is stored encrypted.
Tracking codes
| Tracker | What to enter | Consent group |
|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics 4 | Measurement ID, e.g. G-ABC123XYZ | Analytics |
| Google Tag Manager | Container ID, e.g. GTM-ABC1234 | Consent Mode decides per tag |
| Google Ads | Tag ID AW-… and the purchase conversion label | Marketing |
| Meta Pixel, TikTok, LinkedIn, Microsoft Advertising | Their IDs | Marketing |
| Microsoft Clarity, Hotjar | Their IDs | Analytics |
| Your own code | Always loaded, or after Functional / Analytics / Marketing consent | As chosen |
- Google Consent Mode v2 (advanced or basic) is built in — required by Google for visitors in the EEA and the UK.
- Send store events: viewed plans, started checkout and completed order (with order value and currency) go to every tracker, to the Tag Manager data layer and to the built-in statistics.
Script errors
When a script fails in a visitor's browser, the error, file and line (no personal data) appear in the Script errors view, grouped with a counter — so you see problems before customers report them.
Cookies & privacy
- Show the cookie banner: Automatically (recommended) adds the banner the moment you add Google Analytics, a pixel or your own code; without optional cookies the law needs no banner.
- Consent model: opt-in (GDPR), opt-out or notice. Ask: everyone or only visitors in Europe.
- Look: layout, corner, style, cookie icon, the "Cookie settings" button after a choice, equal "Reject all" and "Accept all" buttons (asked for by EU regulators), and an optional close button that rejects.
- Rules: link to your privacy / cookie policy (empty = your published page whose address contains "privacy" or "cookie"), ask again after (default 180 days), consent version (raise it after you add a tracker — everyone is asked again), respect Global Privacy Control.
- Cookie list: the cookies of WHMCS, the theme and every tracker you set up are listed automatically; add others (chat widget, payment provider) yourself.
- Record of consent: every choice is stored with a random consent ID, the time, the version, the page and a shortened IP address — so you can prove consent (GDPR art. 7). Search by consent ID, see statistics and export CSV.
- Texts: every banner text per language. The live preview shows desktop, preferences and phone.
Tip: make a Privacy policy page with the page builder and add the Cookie list block — it stays up to date by itself.
SEO
The SEO section shows a Google preview of your homepage and a list of checks (HTTPS, indexing, title and description length, sitemap, robots.txt, Search Console, share image) with what to fix.
Titles and descriptions
- Site name in titles and the title pattern, e.g.
{page} | {site}. - Homepage title (50–60 characters) and homepage description (140–160 characters) — per language.
- Default description for pages without their own. Knowledgebase articles, announcements and product groups use their own text.
- Title & description per page (per language): Page is a WHMCS template name (
homepage,knowledgebase,announcements,domain-pricing,contact…) or part of the address starting with/(e.g./store/vps). The first matching row wins. Tick Hide to keep a page out of Google.
Indexing
Let search engines index the site (turn off on a staging copy), keep private pages out of search (sign-in, client area, invoices, tickets, checkout), canonical links, and language versions (hreflang) so each searcher gets their own language.
Sharing and structured data
- Share image — 1200 × 630 px, shown when your link is shared on WhatsApp, Facebook, X or LinkedIn.
- Organisation & website data, breadcrumbs, articles and FAQ data from the homepage questions.
- Your profiles (one URL per line), support phone and email.
Verification, sitemap and robots.txt
- Paste the Google Search Console code (only the
content="…"value), and the Bing or Yandex code if you use them. - The XML sitemap updates itself (homepage, store groups, domain pricing, knowledgebase, announcements, your pages). Its address is shown in the section; submit it in Search Console.
- Under robots.txt click Use the suggested text and Save robots.txt. The old file is kept as
robots.txt.bak.
SEO guide
Open SEO guide — how to rank higher with AraTheme at the bottom of the SEO section: 11 practical steps for hosting businesses — a title for every page that sells, descriptions that sell the click, every language you sell in, knowledgebase articles, landing pages, Search Console, brand details, the share image, speed and honesty, and hiding thin pages.
