Do I need a cookie banner?

What systeme.io gives you

No cookie banner of its own, as far as the help centre goes. The route it documents is an outside tool that you connect yourself.

The help centre walks through Cookiebot as its example, and says plainly that it is only an example: other services exist and work the same way. Its free plan covers one domain, with descriptions in English only.

Where the script goes

A tool of this kind hands you two snippets, and they go to two different places.

• The header script. In the editor, open Settings at the top left of a page, scroll to the Tracking section, and paste it into the header field. That field is for anything that belongs between the head tags of a page.
• The declaration script. This one is added as an HTML element on whichever page the cookie declaration should appear on.

One rule applies to both boxes. systeme.io's documentation says not to include head, html, body or footer tags in the header, footer, tracking code or Raw HTML fields.

Raw HTML is the element that puts custom code into the body of a page, and it has two quirks worth knowing before you go looking for it. It is not available on info pages, and it does not render in preview mode, so anything placed with it shows only on the live page.

Doing it once instead of page by page

Pasting a header script onto every page of every funnel is the slow way to do it. Under your profile picture, Settings, then Sales funnels, there is a Tracking code box that applies to all funnels at once.

A blog is handled separately. Putting the header script on the Blog layout page applies the banner to every blog post and page automatically.

Whether you actually need one

That is a legal question and the answer depends on where your visitors are, not on which platform the site is built with. Consent rules differ between countries, and the rules covering cookies are not the same rules that cover email marketing consent.

systeme.io's article is written around a GDPR compliant banner, but it sets out no test for when one is required and names no law beyond that. Whether your site needs a banner, and what it has to say, is a question for a source covering your own jurisdiction or for a lawyer. A help article cannot answer it and neither can this page.

The consent record systeme.io does keep

This is a different thing that gets confused with cookie consent, so it is worth separating.

For a purchase, systeme.io stores the proof of consent taken from a tick box on an order form or an upsell page. Under Sales, then Transactions, the three dots beside a transaction open a Customer consent record.

That record holds the consent method, the exact wording shown on the tick box, the email address, the date and time, the browser and device, the IP address, the URL of the order form and the tick box ID, with a Download PDF button for a copy.

It will be empty in three cases: the transaction predates the feature, there was no tick box on the page, or the tick box was optional and the buyer left it unticked.

That covers what a buyer agreed to at the point of purchase. It is not cookie consent and it does not stand in for a banner.