Platforms claim more than the store sold
Adding up channel reports does not give you a reliable store total.
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Before changing a campaign or escalating a checkout issue, establish what actually happened. Connect store orders, campaign sources and site health so the team investigates the right problem.
Adding up channel reports does not give you a reliable store total.
Revenue is real, but missing campaign information makes the channel conversation harder to resolve.
The ad, its landing page, checkout or tracking could be responsible. A blended conversion rate does not tell you which.
A weekly trend is not enough when customers cannot complete a purchase today.
Reconcile platform-claimed conversions against actual Shopify orders and resolve sessions and channels to a customer record.
Check existing Shopify order data for missing or unusable campaign sources. See the revenue affected and a ranked list of fixes.
Rank ads by actual orders and trace performance to the pages they send people to, instead of judging the ad from one blended number.
Monitor whether people can buy, tracking is firing and vendors are healthy. Alerts include revenue at risk and a suggested owner.
Put targets on catalog metrics such as conversion rate and checkout completion, then review pacing against a chosen baseline.
Build a role-specific report on what changed, how it compares and where to investigate. Schedule delivery to email or Slack.
Check order reconciliation and source coverage before interpreting a channel's apparent performance.
Use incident context and ad-to-page evidence to focus the next investigation instead of forwarding another dashboard.
Case study
Ending the blended-metrics argument with one number everyone trustsRead how a team handled resolving the argument around blended reporting.