Cookies used on merchant storefronts
If you are an experienced web developer and you would like to know more about the Cookies that we use and their life cycle, you may refer to the table below.
| Cookie name | Application | Importance | Expiration | Function |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| __v_abar__l_s_t | Announcement Bars | Non-Essential | 7 days | Stores a timestamp of when the announcement bar has been closed (to delay the display for 24h) |
| __v_abar__e_c__ | Announcement Bars | Non-essential | 1 year | Stores a flag when the email address has been submitted from announcement bar. |
| __v_fbp__p_w_a_f__ | Facebook Pixels | Non-essential | Persistent | Stores a list of product IDs that had FB pixel fired. |
| __v_fbp__l_p__ | Facebook Pixels | Non-essential | Persistent | Stores a list with active Facebook pixel IDs when checkout button is clicked, so that we won't trigger the InitiateCheckout event multiple times if the visitor returns to the store after first going to checkout. |
| __v_goal__e__ | Upsell Builder / Goal | Essential | Session | Stored the expanded state of Goal widget. |
| __v_pm__d_s__ | Push Marketing | Essential | 1 year | Stores device subscription ID for Push Marketing notifications. |
| __v_pm__p_v_c__ | Push Marketing | Non-essential | 7 days | Stores the number of page views a user had in order to display widget. |
| __v_pm__l_s_t__ | Push Marketing | Non-essential | 7 days | Stores the last timestamp when the widget was shown and notifications were rejected. |
| __v_pm__s_i_c_t__ | Push Marketing | Non-essential | 7 days | Stores the cart token used for order analytics in Push Marketing. |
| __v_pm__m_s_c__ | Push Marketing | Non-essential | Session | Stores the flag containing the fact that the request for saving the cart has started. It’s used to retry the request if it’s interrupted. |
| __v_pr__r_c__ | Product Reviews | Non-essential | Session | Stores a unique identifier received via email, to verify the user has purchased the product under review. |
| __v_pr__g_r__ | Product Reviews | Non-essential | Session | Stores the unpublished (ghost) reviews submitted by a visitor, before being moderated by the shop owner. |
| v_rsale__n_n_d | Recent Sales | Non-essential | 2 days | Stores the total number of notifications displayed. |
| __v_rsale__n_c__ | Recent Sales | Non-essential | 2 days | Stores a flag when recent-sales notification is closed, never to show it again. |
| __v_wof__c_c__ | Spin the Wheel | Non-essential | Session | Stores the coupon code of Spin the Wheel for current user. |
| __v_wof__w_c__ | Spin the Wheel | Non-essential | Session | Stores a flag for when the email submit button was clicked on Spin the Wheel. |
| __v__wl__c__ | Wishlist | Non-essential | 1 year | Stores an Anonymous Customer ID. |
| __v__wl__l__ | Wishlist | Non-essential | Persistent | Stores the products added in the Wishlist. |
| __v_pops__v_c__ | Pop-ups | Non-essential | 1 day | Stores the number of page views since the last popup was shown |
| __v_pops__p_v__ | Pop-ups | Non-essential | 7 days | Stores the IDs of popups that have been shown to the user. |
| __v_pops__p_c__ | Pop-ups | Non-essential | 1 year | Stores a flag when the user submits an email address from our pop-up. |
| __v__r_u_d__ | Global (All) | Non-essential | Session | Stores a flag if the current user is not a bot, after the detection was made |
| __v_appc__s_c__ | Global (All) | Essential | Session | Essential information about the cart items. |
| __v__r_b_v__ | Global (All) | Essential | Session | Stores the flag on redirects made by Vitals. Used to log potential issues that may appear in the redirect cycle. |
| __v__r_f__ | Global (All) | Essential | Session | Stores the redirected from on redirects made by Vitals. Used as a complementary value for __v__r_b_v__ Ensures that users land on the intended page. |
| __v_cbar__a__ | Cookies Bar | Non-essential | 1 year | Stores a flag when Cookies bar is accepted |
| __v_cc__s_s_c | Currency Converter | Non-essential | Session | Stores the soft currency for redirecting the user to the default shop currency in order for the Currency Converter app to work. After the redirect to default, the Currency Converter app can perform the soft conversion. |
| __v_cc__ws__ | Currency Converter | Non-essential | Session | Stores the locale used when redirected by currency converter. This is used to log if the redirect was not successfully. |
| __v_cc__rp__ | Currency Converter | Essential | Session | Stores the redirect details required to prevent an infinite redirect loop in case o failure. |
| __v_cc__s_c__ | Currency Converter | Essential | 1 year | Stores the selected currency. This is an essential storage, as it will reset the currency after each page navigation. |
| __v_cr__s_t__ | Cart Reserved | Non-essential | Persistent | Stores the timestamp when cart-reserved is displayed for the first time. |
| __v_vrep__t_t__ | Visitor Replays | Non-essential | Session | Stores a session storage key with an ID for the current browser tab (which is lost when the tab or browser is closed). |
| __v_vrep__t_d__ | Visitor Replays | Non-essential | 30 days | Stores tracking information like UUID for current user to be identified by visitor-replays. |
| countdown_max____ | Countdown Timer | Non-essential | Persistent | Stores the number of seconds of the countdown length. One cookie will be saved for each product with a countdown. |
| countdown____ | Countdown Timer | Non-essential | Persistent | Stores the timestamp for when the countdown ends. Used for the Cool Off Period setting. |
| __v_rview__p__ | Recently Viewed | Non-essential | Persistent | Stores the products' data that the app uses to render, it is refreshed every four hours via an API call. |
| __v_rview__p_i__ | Recently Viewed | Non-essential | Persistent | Stores the list of IDs of the products recently viewed. |
| v_aioc__w_m_d | All-In-One Chat | Essential | Session | Stores a timestamp for the last time when the welcome message was displayed. |
| __v_ub__u__ | Upsell Builder | Essential | 7 days | Cookie for Upsell Builder requests such as checkout, add to cart |
| __v_pr__m_d | Product Reviews | Essential | Session | When a customer clicks on an email to leave a review on the site, the email & name are temporarily saved in a session cookie to be pre-filled in the review form. |
| __v_ub__g_o__ | Upsell Builder | Essential | Session | When the visitor navigates on the store, while Upsell offers are active, the discount details data will be stored for faster response. |