Anomaly Detection: Shopify + POS Systems
How fast do you hear when something breaks? askotter reads Shopify and POS Systems together and answers it for your business, by text.
How does anomaly detection with Shopify and POS Systems work for a small business?
askotter reads Shopify and POS Systems side by side so it can catch changes in your numbers within minutes. A text within minutes saying what changed, how serious it is and what to check 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 POS Systems
- Transaction data, Product-level sales, Customer identification.
- Status
- POS Systems is on the integration roadmap, so the matching described here starts when that connector ships.
- Not for
- Replacing Shopify or POS Systems. Both keep working exactly as they do now.
How fast do you hear when something breaks?
Something shifted last Tuesday, and nobody noticed until Friday. By then you had lost five days of bookings. The data to catch it was there the whole time.
How askotter handles it
askotter reads Shopify and POS Systems side by side, so it can catch changes in your numbers within minutes.
A person checks the result before it reaches you. This is part of our conversion rate optimization work.
How Shopify and POS Systems records line up
Shopify and POS Systems 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 and the phone number.
What anomaly detection uses from each
Anomaly detection needs a steady daily series with a known normal range.
From Shopify that means orders per hour and checkout completion. From POS Systems it means transactions per hour by location.
POS Systems 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.
POS Systems on its own
A POS sees the sale at the counter. It only knows who bought when the customer gave a phone number or email for a receipt or loyalty account.
Timing. Many POS systems settle and export transactions in end-of-day batches.
Access. The POS vendor's API where one exists, or a daily export.
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Questions about Shopify + POS Systems
Do I need a developer to connect Shopify and POS Systems?
How is askotter's Anomaly Detection different from what Shopify shows on its own?
Shopify + POS Systems is coming soon
Talk to us about your timeline, and we will confirm the launch date before you commit.
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