Jenny hired me for a small project – To set up Ecommerce tracking in her 3DCart store. I thought it as a small task but it took more than 15 days. A really long story with so many problems.
What was the major problem?
The major problem was use of Shared SSL or Lack of Dedicated SSL. She was using shared provided (Free one) by 3DCart.
Why shared SSL for 3Dcart is a problem for Ecommerce tracking?
Because if you use shared SSL, all your secure pages will be hosted on subdomain.3dcartstores.com.
And as it is not your primary domain, you need cross-domain tracking to keep up the original traffic source between your domain and subdomain of 3dcartstores. Otherwise you will have self-referral issues and Google Analytics will report that all the sales are coming from yourdomain.com/referral.

Other traffic sources has $0 revenue
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