Facebook conversion event callback

Question

I cant find in the documentation if there is any callback functionality in the conversion tracking (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/ads-for-websites/tag-api)

In order to track an event you just need to call:

window._fbq = window._fbq || []; window._fbq.push(['track', 'FBCONVERSIONCODE', {'value':'0.00','currency':'USD'}]); 

That is very similar to google analytics conversion code, only though they allow you to call a function when the ajax call finish:

ga('send', 'pageview', {   'page': '/my-new-page',   'hitCallback': function() {     alert('analytics.js done sending data');   } }); 

Is there a way to achieve the same functionality with Facebook API?

Answer 1

As of today, Facebook still does not support it. However, since I had this issue due to immediate redirect, I used the following solution:

basically I set on localStorage the variable I needed to track =>

 window.localStorage.setItem('documentTitle', document.title); 

then I did the redirect, and on the targeted page I used the following to properly track fb event

if (typeof(fbq) !== 'undefined' && window.localStorage.getItem('documentTitle')) {     fbq('track', 'Lead', {content_name: window.localStorage.getItem('documentTitle')});     window.localStorage.removeItem('documentTitle');} 

Hope this helps someone ;)

PS: this will work only if the redirected page is on the same host of the initial page, since localStorage is unique per: protocol://host:port