Root Cause Analysis: Shopify + WooCommerce
Why did this number change? askotter reads Shopify and WooCommerce together and answers it for your business, by text.
How does root cause analysis with Shopify and WooCommerce work for a small business?
askotter reads Shopify and WooCommerce side by side so it can test each explanation against your connected accounts and find the cause. A ranked list of likely causes, each with the evidence behind 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 WooCommerce
- Orders and revenue, Product performance, Customer data.
- Status
- WooCommerce is on the integration roadmap, so the matching described here starts when that connector ships.
- Not for
- Replacing Shopify or WooCommerce. Both keep working exactly as they do now.
Why did this number change?
Bookings dropped 23%. The ad, the website and the weather all get blamed. Without your accounts side by side, it stays a guess.
How askotter handles it
askotter reads Shopify and WooCommerce side by side, so it can test each explanation against your connected accounts and find the cause.
A person checks the result before it reaches you. This is part of our conversion rate optimization work.
How Shopify and WooCommerce records line up
Shopify and WooCommerce 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 root cause analysis uses from each
Root cause analysis needs timestamps precise enough to put events in order.
From Shopify that means order timestamps, discount codes and refund dates. From WooCommerce it means order status changes and plugin updates.
WooCommerce 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.
WooCommerce on its own
WooCommerce sees the order and, on recent versions, its source tag. It cannot see ad cost or the visits that did not buy.
Timing. WooCommerce writes each order when it is placed, and recent versions save the order's source and UTM values with it.
Access. The WooCommerce REST API with a read-only key.
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Questions about Shopify + WooCommerce
Do I need a developer to connect Shopify and WooCommerce?
How is askotter's Root Cause Analysis different from what Shopify shows on its own?
Shopify + WooCommerce is coming soon
Talk to us about your timeline, and we will confirm the launch date before you commit.
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