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# Pre-order Tracking

## **Shopify stores** <a href="#shopify-stores" id="shopify-stores"></a>

If/how you need to integrate Purple Dot with 3rd party tracking softwaredepends on whether Purple Dot is integrated into your Shopify store as separate checkout or as a payment provider inside Shopify's checkout. See more [here](https://docs.getpurpledot.com/docs#feature-comparison) to learn about these two options.

### **As payment provider inside Shopify checkout** <a href="#as-payment-provider-inside-shopify-checkout" id="as-payment-provider-inside-shopify-checkout"></a>

No extra setup is required. The same events/tracking that already works for your regular sales will work for pre-orders also. The rest of this section does not apply.

### **As separate checkout** <a href="#as-separate-checkout" id="as-separate-checkout"></a>

Once set up to do so, the Purple Dot checkout can send&#x20;

* ad attribution events,
* conversion events, and
* subscribe shoppers to email/sms marketing

to many different 3rd party systems. See pages below to learn more about the supported integrations and how to turn them on.

You can activate these integrations from the Integration settings page in the [Merchant Portal](https://www.purpledotprice.com/merchant-portal/integration).