Customer Retention: Shopify + TikTok Ads
Which customers are about to stop coming back? askotter reads Shopify and TikTok Ads together and answers it for your business, by text.
How does customer retention with Shopify and TikTok Ads work for a small business?
askotter reads Shopify and TikTok Ads 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 TikTok Ads
- Campaign and ad group performance, Creative and video metrics, Audience targeting.
- Status
- TikTok Ads is on the integration roadmap, so the matching described here starts when that connector ships.
- Not for
- Replacing Shopify or TikTok Ads. 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 TikTok Ads 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 TikTok Ads records line up
Shopify and TikTok Ads 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.
Shopify and TikTok Ads both keep the UTM source, medium and campaign values from the visit, so activity lines up campaign by campaign even when no single person can be matched.
Shared between the two: the customer email address 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 TikTok Ads it means the campaign that recruited each customer.
TikTok Ads 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.
TikTok Ads on its own
TikTok sees views, clicks and the conversions its pixel catches. It cannot see what happens after a visitor leaves the tracked site.
Timing. TikTok reports conversions under the attribution windows chosen in the ad account, and those counts can include view-through conversions.
Access. The TikTok Marketing API with read access to the ad account.
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Questions about Shopify + TikTok Ads
Do I need a developer to connect Shopify and TikTok Ads?
How is askotter's Customer Retention different from what Shopify shows on its own?
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