Root Cause Analysis: Shopify + GitHub
Why did this number change? askotter reads Shopify and GitHub together and answers it for your business, by text.
How does root cause analysis with Shopify and GitHub work for a small business?
askotter reads Shopify and GitHub side by side so it can test each explanation against your connected accounts and find the cause. A ranked list of likely causes, each with the evidence behind it.
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The owner asks follow-up questions by text.
- From Shopify
- Orders and revenue, Product performance, Customer profiles and segments.
- From GitHub
- Commits and pull requests, Deployment events, Release tags.
- Status
- Both connect today.
- Not for
- Replacing Shopify or GitHub. Both keep working exactly as they do now.
Why did this number change?
Bookings dropped 23%. The ad, the website and the weather all get blamed. Without your accounts side by side, it stays a guess.
How askotter handles it
askotter reads Shopify and GitHub side by side, so it can test each explanation against your connected accounts and find the cause.
A person checks the result before it reaches you. This is part of our conversion rate optimization work.
How Shopify and GitHub records line up
Shopify and GitHub share no customer or visit identifier. askotter puts them on one timeline instead, so a change in Shopify orders can be read against what GitHub recorded in the same hours.
What root cause analysis uses from each
Root cause analysis needs timestamps precise enough to put events in order.
From Shopify that means order timestamps, discount codes and refund dates. From GitHub it means the commit and deploy closest to when a metric moved.
What each tool sees on its ownShow less
Shopify on its own
Shopify sees the order and the landing page. It has no view of the ad impressions, emails or searches that came before that session.
Timing. Shopify writes each order the moment it is placed, including the landing page and referring site of the session that bought.
Access. Read-only access through the Shopify Admin API, approved from the store admin.
GitHub on its own
GitHub knows what code changed and when. It cannot tell you whether that change cost you leads or sales.
Timing. GitHub timestamps every commit, merge and deployment to the second.
Access. A GitHub App or token with read access to the repositories you choose.
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Questions about Shopify + GitHub
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How is askotter's Root Cause Analysis different from what Shopify shows on its own?
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