Consentik Shopline: Scan cookie
How the cookie scanner works
Under GDPR, CCPA and similar laws you are expected to tell visitors which cookies your store sets, what each one is for, and how long it stays on their device. Consentik's cookie scanner does the first part of that work for you: it visits your storefront, collects the cookies it finds, and matches them against a cookie database so most of them arrive already described and sorted into a category.
This article covers what the scanner does, how to review its results, and what it cannot find on its own.
Where to find it
Go to Cookies Management. The Scan now button sits in the page header.
Consentik also starts a scan on its own when you open this page, so most of the time the results are already waiting for you. Use Scan now when you have just installed a new app or changed your theme and want fresh results immediately.
Running a scan
- Open Cookies Management.
- Click Scan now.
- Wait for the button to stop loading. A scan can take up to two minutes. Keep the tab open — closing it cancels the scan.
- The Scanned Cookies table appears above your main cookie list.
If Scan now is greyed out, your current plan does not include the scanner. The Pricing page shows which plans do.
Reading the results
The Scanned Cookies table shows what the last scan found:
Column | What it means |
|---|---|
Title | The cookie name. A |
Platform | The service that sets the cookie — Google Analytics, Meta, Shopify, and so on. |
Purpose | A plain-language description of what the cookie does. |
Transfer | Whether the cookie has been copied into your main cookie list. |
Cookies the database recognises arrive with a purpose, a platform and a category already filled in. Cookies it does not recognise still get listed — they simply arrive without a category, and you will find them under the No category tab of the main table. | |
Use Transfer (or Transfer all / Transfer selected) to copy a scanned cookie into your main cookie list. Restore does the opposite and removes it from that list again. The scan results themselves are kept either way, so restoring something is not destructive — you can transfer it again later. |
Getting a cookie onto your banner
Transferring a cookie is not the last step. A cookie only appears in your banner's cookie table when both of these are true:
- it has a Category assigned, and
- its Status is Published.
Scanned cookies are deliberately left unpublished so that nothing reaches your storefront before you have looked at it. To publish one, open it from the main Cookies table and set it to Publish. While you are there you can correct anything the scanner guessed wrong — Category, Title, Purpose, Platform, Domain, Type and Retention period are all editable.
The tabs across the main table make the review quick:
- No category — needs a category before it can go live. Start here.
- Not published — categorised but still hidden from shoppers.
- Published — currently visible in your banner.
- Scanned — everything the scanner has ever contributed.
You can also add a cookie by hand with Add cookie, or bulk-edit through Import/Export (.xlsx, up to 10 MB). Manual entries behave exactly like scanned ones.
Updated on: 28/10/2026
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