Customer Journey Mapping: Shopify + Klaviyo
What do customers do before they call or book? askotter reads Shopify and Klaviyo together and answers it for your business, by text.
How does customer journey mapping with Shopify and Klaviyo work for a small business?
askotter reads Shopify and Klaviyo side by side so it can map the path customers take across your accounts. The whole path in one view, with every visit and decision point on 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 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.
What do customers do before they call or book?
On paper the path is simple: someone sees an ad, visits the site and books. In real life they search twice, read reviews and come back days later on a different phone. Each tool sees only its own piece.
How askotter handles it
askotter reads Shopify and Klaviyo side by side, so it can map the path customers take across your accounts.
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 journey mapping uses from each
Customer journey mapping needs the order of events for one person.
From Shopify that means the customer's order history and first landing page. From Klaviyo it means flow and campaign messages received by each profile.
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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How is askotter's Customer Journey Mapping different from what Shopify shows on its own?
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