Predictive Forecasting: Shopify + Stripe
Can you trust your forecast for next month? askotter reads Shopify and Stripe together and answers it for your business, by text.
How does predictive forecasting with Shopify and Stripe work for a small business?
askotter reads Shopify and Stripe side by side so it can forecast with live numbers from every connected account. Forecasts that update as your numbers change, with a likely range attached.
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The owner asks follow-up questions by text.
- From Shopify
- Orders and revenue, Product performance, Customer profiles and segments.
- From Stripe
- Payment transactions and revenue, Memberships and recurring plans, Customer payment profiles.
- Status
- Both connect today.
- Not for
- Replacing Shopify or Stripe. Both keep working exactly as they do now.
Can you trust your forecast for next month?
Most small business forecasts are last year's numbers in a spreadsheet. They miss that your ad spend doubled this quarter or that the busy season started early.
How askotter handles it
askotter reads Shopify and Stripe side by side, so it can forecast with live numbers from every connected account.
A person checks the result before it reaches you. This is part of our conversion rate optimization work.
How Shopify and Stripe records line up
Shopify and Stripe 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.
Shared between the two: the customer email address.
What predictive forecasting uses from each
Predictive forecasting needs enough history to see the seasonal pattern.
From Shopify that means daily order counts by product and inventory levels. From Stripe it means recurring revenue by plan and renewal dates.
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.
Stripe on its own
Stripe knows the payment, the amount and the customer's email. It has no record of the ad, search or email that brought the customer in.
Timing. Stripe records each charge, refund and failed payment as it happens. Payouts land on a schedule days later, so charge date and payout date differ.
Access. A restricted, read-only Stripe API key, or Stripe Connect.
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Questions about Shopify + Stripe
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