generated: '2026-08-13'
method: searched
source: >-
  CJ's documentation corpus at https://production-docs-assets.p.cjpowered.com/ —
  the "Advertiser Site Tracking", "Publisher Site Tracking" and
  "Plugins & Templates" sections of https://production-docs-assets.p.cjpowered.com/index.yaml
provider: CJ Affiliate
providerId: cj-affiliate
description: >-
  CJ ships no UI widget library and no embeddable dashboard. What it does
  distribute client-side is TRACKING: a pair of JavaScript tags (one for
  advertisers, one for publishers) plus packaged installers for three commerce
  and tag-management platforms. These are the first-party code CJ actually
  publishes for a customer to drop into a page — distinct from the SDKs it does
  not publish (see packages/cj-affiliate-packages.yml).
families:
- name: Advertiser Site Tracking
  kind: javascript-tag
  description: >-
    Client-side tags an advertiser places on its own site to record CJ-attributed
    transactions and consent state.
  components:
  - name: Universal Tag
    docs: https://developers.cj.com/docs/advertiser-site-tracking/universal-tag-integration
    description: >-
      CJ's primary advertiser tag. Fires the conversion event and carries order,
      item and vertical parameters.
  - name: CJ Leads Integration
    docs: https://developers.cj.com/docs/advertiser-site-tracking/cj-leads-integration
    description: Lead-event variant of the advertiser tag.
  - name: HTTP Response Cookie
    docs: https://developers.cj.com/docs/advertiser-site-tracking/http-response-cookie
    description: >-
      Server-set first-party cookie approach, an alternative to purely
      client-side attribution under browser cookie restrictions.
  - name: Vertical Parameters
    docs: https://developers.cj.com/docs/advertiser-site-tracking/vertical-parameters
    description: >-
      The typed attribute set an advertiser passes on the tag, varying by
      vertical (Retail, Finance, Travel, Network Services). The same vocabulary
      appears as `verticalParameters` on the GraphQL Tracking API.
  - name: Consent Signal & Loyalty Exemption
    docs: https://developers.cj.com/docs/advertiser-site-tracking/consent-signal-loyalty-exemption
    description: >-
      How consent state is signalled to CJ from the page, and the loyalty
      exemption path.
- name: Publisher Site Tracking
  kind: javascript-tag
  description: >-
    Client-side tags a publisher places on its own property, with server-side
    equivalents in the Publisher Tracking and Click Events APIs.
  components:
  - name: Publisher Tag
    docs: https://developers.cj.com/docs/publisher-site-tracking/publisher-tag-overview
    description: >-
      The browser-based counterpart to the Publisher Tracking API. CJ names it
      explicitly as the solution to use when a server-side call is not possible,
      because neither the Publisher Tracking API nor the Click Events API may be
      called from a browser.
    variants: [On-Click Tracking, On-Load Tracking]
  - name: Google Ads Certified Click Tracker
    docs: https://developers.cj.com/docs/publisher-site-tracking/google-ads-certified-click-tracker
    description: Certified click-tracking integration for Google Ads traffic.
- name: Plugins & Templates
  kind: platform-plugin
  description: >-
    Packaged installers that put CJ tracking into a hosted commerce or
    tag-management platform without hand-editing a template.
  components:
  - name: Shopify Plugin
    platform: Shopify
    docs: https://developers.cj.com/docs/plugins-templates/shopify-plugin-installation
    lifecycle_docs: https://developers.cj.com/docs/plugins-templates/shopify-plugin-update
    description: >-
      CJ's Shopify app. Documented with both an installation and a separate
      update procedure, which is the only versioned client-side artifact CJ
      documents a lifecycle for.
  - name: PrestaShop Plugin
    platform: PrestaShop
    docs: https://developers.cj.com/docs/plugins-templates/prestashop-plugin-installation
  - name: Google Tag Manager template
    platform: Google Tag Manager
    docs: https://developers.cj.com/docs/plugins-templates/google-tag-manager
    description: >-
      GTM template for deploying CJ tracking through a tag manager rather than
      directly in page source.
loaders: []
loaders_note: >-
  CJ does not publish a versioned CDN loader URL, an npm-distributed tag package,
  or a pinned script src in its documentation index. Tag snippets are generated
  per account inside the CJ Account Manager, so there is no public artifact whose
  version a consumer could pin or audit.
not_offered:
- Embeddable dashboards or reporting widgets
- Hosted checkout / payment elements
- A design system or web-component library