Consentmo GDPR Setup on Shopify: Banners, Consent Mode v2 and Pixels

Switching the banner on takes minutes. Making consent actually control tracking takes longer.

Consent Mode v2 wiring. It is turned on under Integrations in the app, with your GTM, GA4 or Google Ads IDs. Basic mode holds Google tags until a visitor accepts; Advanced loads them and sends cookieless pings while consent is denied. Choose with whoever owns your ad reporting, then run the in-app integration scanner.

Meta and TikTok pixels. Standard adds pixel and Global Privacy Control support. Test each pixel so it waits for consent instead of firing on page view.

Consent at checkout. This needs Shopify Plus and Consentmo's Plus or Enterprise plan: the cookie bar added as a checkout block, plus a custom pixel under Customer events carrying your GTM code. Checkout customization developers know this ground.

Sorting cookies. The free scan lists cookies and Plus adds AI categorization. Someone still checks that every app's cookies sit in the right category before launch.

Answering data requests. DSAR pages and logs come with the free plan. Decide who replies and how data is gathered from Shopify and other apps.

Accessibility and age gates. Plus adds ADA and WCAG tools and age verification. A theme still needs its own review by accessibility specialists.

When Consentmo alone will do. One market, the free banner and no ad pixels: the defaults and Consentmo's support usually cover it.

Consentmo jobs are tag and pixel work as much as privacy work. Hire for the tracking skills and take legal questions to a qualified adviser.

How will you show nothing fires early? A good answer: open the store from an EU location in a clean browser, decline, and watch the network requests to confirm Google and Meta tags stay blocked or send only cookieless pings.

Basic or Advanced Consent Mode, and why? Advanced lets Google model missing conversions; Basic sends nothing before consent. A careful candidate asks about your ad spend and your legal advice before picking.

What changes at a Plus checkout? Consentmo's checkout guide sets the custom pixel to Not required and wraps your GTM script in its own pixel code. Someone who knows that step has done Plus checkouts before.

Consentmo red lights. Promises of full compliance, a banner switched on with no tag testing, or tracking code hard-coded in the theme that nobody has checked.

Order a Consentmo consent audit first. A short test of the banner, Google tags, ad pixels and checkout from two regions, with screenshots of what fired.

If the bigger worry is lost conversion data, analytics and attribution specialists fit better.

Four plans as of October 2026. Free covers unlimited banner impressions, DSAR pages and logs, a compliance center and a cookie scan. Standard, $10 a month or $100 a year, adds Consent Mode v2, pixel and GPC support, an AI cookie scanner and translations.

The upper tiers. Plus, $37 a month, adds accessibility tools, age verification, an EU withdrawal page and AI cookie categorization. Enterprise, $64 a month, adds IAB TCF v2.4, cross-domain consent, headless and Hydrogen support and a Plus checkout banner. Paid plans start with a 7-day trial.

Laws and languages. Banners follow location for GDPR, CCPA, LGPD and PIPEDA, and the listing names CPRA, CTDPA, UCPA and VCDPA. The app runs in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese and Dutch.

Listed integrations. Google Ads, Analytics and GTM, Meta, TikTok and Amazon pixels, Klaviyo, Microsoft Consent Mode, and Shopify checkout and customer accounts.

Badges. The listing carries Built for Shopify, and Consentmo says it is certified under Google's CMP Partner Program.

For the store-side checklist, read the shopexperts guide to GDPR and cookies on Shopify.

What the 4 Consentmo badge holders list on their shopexperts profiles as of October 2026.