Combined Reporting: Shopify + WordPress
How do you get one set of numbers you can trust? askotter reads Shopify and WordPress together and answers it for your business, by text.
How does combined reporting with Shopify and WordPress work for a small business?
askotter reads Shopify and WordPress side by side so it can combine your accounts into one clean report you can ask questions of. One report covering every connected account, cleaned up and answerable by text.
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The owner asks follow-up questions by text.
- From Shopify
- Orders and revenue, Product performance, Customer profiles and segments.
- From WordPress
- Page and post performance, Content categories and tags, User engagement metrics.
- Status
- Both connect today.
- Not for
- Replacing Shopify or WordPress. Both keep working exactly as they do now.
How do you get one set of numbers you can trust?
GA4 says one thing, Stripe says another, and your booking system disagrees with both. Matching them by hand takes hours, and the answer is still fuzzy.
How askotter handles it
askotter reads Shopify and WordPress side by side, so it can combine your accounts into one clean report you can ask questions of.
A person checks the result before it reaches you. This is part of our conversion rate optimization work.
How Shopify and WordPress records line up
Shopify and WordPress share no customer or visit identifier. askotter puts them on one timeline instead, so a change in Shopify orders can be read against what WordPress recorded in the same hours.
What combined reporting uses from each
Combined reporting needs a shared identifier or a shared time grain.
From Shopify that means order IDs and customer emails. From WordPress it means page URLs.
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.
WordPress on its own
WordPress knows what is published and when it changed. Without analytics beside it, it has no idea which pages bring in work.
Timing. WordPress stamps the publish and modified date on every post and page, which marks exactly when content changed.
Access. The WordPress REST API with an application password.
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Questions about Shopify + WordPress
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