Getting started
Introduction
What Consorm installs on your site, how the pieces fit together, and where to start depending on your situation.
Consorm is a consent management platform: a banner that blocks trackers before consent, a timestamped record of every decision and a dashboard to drive it all. The integration goes through Google Tag Manager: it loads the banner and conditions your marketing tools on consent, without you touching your pages' code.
How it works
- 1When a page loads, a bootstrap script declares a denied by default consent state (Consent Mode v2) and blocks known trackers, before any other tag.
- 2The banner loads from our CDN and renders inside an isolated Shadow DOM: it never conflicts with your styles.
- 3The visitor makes their choice. The decision is stored in the
csm_consentcookie, sent to the consent record, and relayed to your tools through Consent Mode. - 4Authorized tags fire immediately, without a page reload. The others stay blocked.
The two installation methods
Everything starts from your account at app.consorm.com: you add a site by entering its address (Consorm only keeps the domain name, without www or path, and a domain can only be added once), then the Installation page offers two methods. As soon as the site is created, a default banner configuration is published: all that remains is to have your site load it.
| Automatic (recommended) | GTM template (manual) | |
|---|---|---|
| For whom | You have no GTM container, or you want Consorm to manage everything. | You already have a GTM container your team controls. |
| What you do | Paste two code snippets into your site. | Import a tag template into your own GTM. |
| Who manages the container | Consorm creates, configures and publishes a container for you. | You. Consorm never touches your container. |
| Tag management (GA4, Meta) | From the dashboard's Providers tab. | In your own GTM; the Providers tab does not appear. |
| Guide | Automatic installation | GTM template installation |
Your site ID
Each site receives a nine-digit numeric ID (for example 483920175). It is what links your site to its banner configuration and its consent record: you will need it for the GTM template method and for any support request. It is shown on the Installation page, GTM template (manual) tab, as long as no automatic container has been created; it also appears in the address of every page of the site in the dashboard (/dashboard/483920175/…).
Going further
- Add Google Analytics or Meta Pixel once the banner is live.
- Customize the banner: appearance, copy, categories.
- Control the banner in JavaScript: reopen the preferences, read the consent state.
- Review the record and produce proof.
- Invite your team with the right roles.
Need help?
The team, in Quebec, answers quickly through the Contact us page. You can also book a guided demo.