Cookiebot CMP: Product Demo and Consent Mode Setup

It crawls your site and identifies every cookie and tracking script running on it, then classifies them by category. This matters because most sites are setting things nobody on the team configured, inherited from themes, embeds and plugins added over time. The scan is usually the first accurate inventory a site has had.

No, the scan repeats and updates as your site changes. You should still review the classifications after the first run, since automatic categorization can misplace an unusual script. Getting that right matters because the category determines what gets blocked before consent and what appears in your cookie declaration.

Yes. Design, layout, wording and the visible text elements are all configurable, with support for multiple languages. This is worth spending time on rather than accepting defaults, because banner design directly affects opt-in rates and a banner that looks foreign to the site tends to perform worse.

A persistent control, usually a small floating element, that lets visitors review or change their consent after the initial decision. It exists because consent has to be as easy to withdraw as it was to give. Without one, someone who accepted has no practical route back, which is a compliance gap.

Three routes: through Google Tag Manager, through a CMS plugin such as the WordPress one, or by pasting the script directly into your site's header. The manual route needs the script placed at the top of the header area, since anything loading before it cannot be blocked.

Yes. You add each domain separately, and domain groups let sites sharing the same banner configuration be managed together. This is the usual setup for agencies and for businesses running several country sites, since it avoids configuring the same banner repeatedly.

Select based on where your visitors are rather than where the business is registered. The preset configures defaults appropriate to that framework, such as opt-in behavior for GDPR. Sites with audiences across multiple regions need the setup to detect jurisdiction and serve the correct flow rather than picking one.

Under an hour for a straightforward site, with the scan running in the background while you configure the banner. What extends it is reviewing cookie classifications carefully and testing that scripts are genuinely blocked before consent, which is the step worth not rushing.