Customer Retention: Shopify + Klaviyo
Which customers are about to stop coming back? askotter reads Shopify and Klaviyo together and answers it for your business, by text.
How does customer retention with Shopify and Klaviyo work for a small business?
askotter reads Shopify and Klaviyo side by side so it can spot the signs that a customer is drifting away. Customers at risk flagged early, with the best way to win each one back listed first.
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The owner asks follow-up questions by text.
- From Shopify
- Orders and revenue, Product performance, Customer profiles and segments.
- From Klaviyo
- Campaign performance, Flow and automation data, Subscriber segments.
- Status
- Klaviyo is on the integration roadmap, so the matching described here starts when that connector ships.
- Not for
- Replacing Shopify or Klaviyo. Both keep working exactly as they do now.
Which customers are about to stop coming back?
By the time you notice a regular has gone quiet, they have booked somewhere else. The warning signs were spread across your accounts: a complaint, a missed visit, a failed card payment. No single tool saw all of it.
How askotter handles it
askotter reads Shopify and Klaviyo side by side, so it can spot the signs that a customer is drifting away.
A person checks the result before it reaches you. This is part of our conversion rate optimization work.
How Shopify and Klaviyo records line up
Shopify and Klaviyo both store the customer's email address. askotter lowercases and trims it on both sides before matching, so the same person shows up as one customer across the two tools.
Both tools can hold a phone number. Numbers are normalised to one international format before matching, which catches customers who never gave an email.
Shared between the two: the customer email address, the phone number and the UTM campaign tags.
What customer retention uses from each
Customer retention needs repeat behaviour from the same customer over time.
From Shopify that means days since each customer's last order. From Klaviyo it means profiles that stopped clicking.
Klaviyo is on the integration roadmap, so the matching described here starts when that connector ships.
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.
Klaviyo on its own
Klaviyo sees who received, opened and clicked. It credits revenue by its own attribution window and cannot see sales that happen off the store it is connected to.
Timing. Klaviyo logs sends, opens and clicks as events. Apple Mail Privacy Protection preloads images, so open counts run high and clicks are the steadier signal.
Access. A Klaviyo private API key with read-only scopes.
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Questions about Shopify + Klaviyo
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