eCommerce 360 User Manual

Dashboard

Getting Started

Linking your Google Analytics account is needed to configure the eCommerce 360 dashboard. Please see detailed instructions on how to link your account below:

Linking the ‘Google Analytics account’

1. Please navigate to Settings.

2. On Settings tab please click on ‘Sign in with Google’.

3. Please fill in the credentials to connect with your Google Analytics account email address and password and click ‘Next’.

4. Please select the option to ‘See and download your Google Analytics data’ and click ‘Continue’ to complete the process of linking the Google Analytics account.

5. After the linking process is complete, you will be redirected back to the Settings screen.

Unlinking the ‘Google Analytics account’

1. Login into eCommerce360 dashboard

2. Go to Settings  

3. Go to Domain  

4. Navigate to Integrations

5. In the Google Analytics Section, click ‘Unlink Google Account’

Enabling Enhanced Ecommerce

Enhanced Ecommerce delivers valuable insights into customer shopping behavior, merchandising success, financial performance, product attribution, and more. We highly recommend enabling it to maximize the benefits of the eCommerce 360 dashboard and gather comprehensive data about your site visitors.

Enabling this Enhanced eCommerce tracking is easy – Click here to view step-by-step instructions.

Revenue

Revenue Overview

Revenue is the total transactional income generated by the sale of products/services during the selected reporting period.

The transactional revenue reported here is effectively the net revenue. Subtotal price is the revenue collected after discounts but before shipping and taxes.

Notes

  • Currency – all sales are shown in USD ($)
  • The graph also shows the trends for Sales for the selected reporting period.

Revenue per Device Type

Revenue per Device Type is tracking what percentage of your customers are using the various device types (Desktop, Mobile, or Tablet) to place orders in each reporting period.

*** Hovering over the pie chart will display revenue per device type

How does this help?

Tracking this data enables you to:

  • Identify customers' preferred shopping devices
  • Optimize UX for diverse devices
  • Create targeted marketing campaigns based on device usage
  • Analyze user behavior and anticipate future preferences

By ensuring a consistent experience across devices and platforms, you can ultimately enhance customer satisfaction and foster long-term loyalty.

Customer Metrics

1. Number of Customers – Total number of new vs returning customers for the selected reporting period.

2. Orders - This metric tracks the number of orders placed for the selected reporting period.

3. Items Purchased – Total count of products/services purchased by your customers.

4. Revenue - Revenue that new and existing customers brought for the selected reporting period (excluding shipping and tax).

5. Average Order Value - AOV is the average dollar amount spent each time a customer places an order.

6. Average Items Purchased – An average number of items or services each customer new/returning customers bought per purchase.

7. Revenue per User - Revenue per user shows the average revenue a company generated from new vs returning customers. This is calculated based on the total sale revenue (excluding shipping and tax) of the transaction for new/existing users divided by the total number of new/existing users.

8. Revenue per Session – Revenue Per Session is the average amount of money generated by every unique session or visit to your website (excluding shipping and tax).

Notes

  • New Customers are the people that visit your site for the first time
  • Returning Customers are people who have visited or purchased from your site before
  • To avoid inflating metrics, $0 revenue orders are not counted for calculations

How does this help?

New Customers contribute to revenue growth and brand expansion, while Returning Customers reflect marketing success and brand loyalty. By tracking these customer metrics on the Revenue screen, we examine how New vs. Returning Customers' revenue streams differ and their impact on the overall revenue.

Revenue per Acquisition Channel

Revenue per acquisition channel tracks the traffic channels through which users were acquired. It is extracted from users' first session. Traffic channel is computed based on the default channel grouping rules at the time of user acquisition.

Common Acquisition Channel Groupings

  1. Organic Search – This traffic came to your site through a search engine such as Google, Bing, etc. This is an important channel to watch for SEO optimization purposes.
  1. Display – This traffic came to your site by clicking on an ad that you ran on another website. Ex: Banner ads, promo materials posted in Blogs, and image ads on news sites are common generators of this traffic.
  1. Direct – This traffic had your site URL and used that to browse your site.
  1. Referral – This is traffic that is generated from a backlink from another website to your site.
  1. Paid Search – Traffic shown in this channel comes from your paid search ads that appear in the search results.
  1. Social – These are users who find your website’s page through an associated social media account.
  1. Email – Users who clicked on links in an email campaign.
  1. Other – Traffic that comes from miscellaneous sources not classified above.
  1. Custom – If you have set up any custom acquisition channels within Google Analytics, they will be displayed on the eCommerce 360 dashboard as well.

How does this help?

This data helps to:

  • Identify key investment areas to support your brand; for instance, maintaining a social media presence helps avoid credibility loss and promotes growth.
  • Determining where to invest for acquisition, focusing on the areas that have bigger impact to help identify channels with the best ROI (Return on Investment), and using them to run campaigns.

Revenue per Country

Transactional Revenue from the total sales for the reporting period per Country.

*** Hovering over the pie chart will display revenue per device type

Notes

  • Users' country, is determined by their IP addresses or Geographical IDs.
  • Countries are grouped based on the geographical location of the traffic that is generating this revenue. For example, in the above image, most of the traffic is from USA, hence rest of the world is shown as Others.

Traffic

Traffic Overview

The traffic graph shows the total number of sessions for the selected reporting timeframe. This graph will help to quickly determine sudden spikes/drops in traffic.

Note

A user session is a record of interactions a user performs when visiting your website. A session begins when a user visits a page on your website. The end of session is considered either after 30 minutes of user inactivity, or when the user leaves the site.

Traffic per Device Type

Traffic per device type shows the total number of sessions captured over a weekday per device type (Desktop, Tablet and Mobile).

How this helps:

  • Understand which devices shoulder most of your site’s traffic
  • Provides segments for performance testing
  • Analyze user behavior and predict future preferences or interests

Top Countries

The Top Countries table displays the top 10 countries contributing to your eCommerce site's transaction revenue during the specified reporting period.

How does this help?

Comprehending geographical market segmentation enables more effective campaign planning to boost revenue growth.

Homepage SEO Score

The score is a snapshot analysis of the key factors that impact the search engine optimization and usability of a particular website or webpage.

A website’s score is presented on a 100-point scale and based on 3 main factors:

  • Accessibility: Can search engines and humans visit your site and properly load your pages?
  • Readability: How easily can search engines properly interpret the content on your pages, the context surrounding it, and its relevance to a particular topic?
  • Quality: Does your website provide a good user experience for human visitors?

Conversions

Conversions Overview

Conversion rates differ based on industry, region, device used for shopping, and many other factors. eCommerce360's conversion rate is the average number of transactions in a session.

For example, if your site receives 300 visitors in a month and has 50 sales, the conversion rate would be 17%.

Conversions per Device Type

The eCommerce360 Conversion Rate per Device Type graph displays the average session transactions per device type (Desktop, Mobile, and Tablet) and acquisition channel. Identifying top-performing channels informs strategic investment to acquire customers and reduce acquisition costs.

Conversions per Acquisition Channels

eCommerce360's conversion rate analysis reveals traffic sources, showing which campaigns drive goal conversions or cause user bounce. This insight helps prioritize efforts to boost conversion rates.

Common Acquisition Channel Groupings

  1. Organic Search – This traffic came to your site through a search engine such as Google, Bing, etc. This is an important channel to watch for SEO optimization purposes.
  1. Display – This traffic came to your site by clicking on an ad that you ran on another website. Ex: Banner ads, promo materials posted in Blogs, and image ads on news sites are common generators of this traffic.
  1. Direct – This traffic had your site URL and used that to browse your site.
  1. Referral – This is traffic that is generated from a backlink from another website to your site.
  1. Paid Search – Traffic shown in this channel comes from your paid search ads that appear in the search results.
  1. Social – These are users who find your website’s page through an associated social media account.
  1. Email – Users who clicked on links in an email campaign.
  1. Other – Traffic that comes from miscellaneous sources not classified above.
  1. Custom – If you have set up any custom acquisition channels within Google Analytics, they will be displayed on the eCommerce 360 dashboard as well

How does this help?

  • Identify key investment areas to support your brand; for instance, maintaining a social media presence helps avoid credibility loss and promotes growth.
  • Determining where to invest for acquisition, focusing on the areas that have bigger impact to help identify channels with the best ROI (Return on Investment), and using them to run campaigns.

Average Order Value

Average Order Value Overview

Average Order Value (AOV) is a key eCommerce KPI that indicates the average total amount of each order. Monitoring AOV informs marketing and pricing strategies and guides future campaign planning.

Average Order Value per Device Type

The AOV per Device Type graph illustrates the average order value for each device type. As a key revenue indicator, improving AOV is a powerful way to drive overall revenue growth. Additionally, monitoring AOV can offer insights into customer purchasing habits and preferences.

Average Order Value per Country

Average Order Value (AOV) per country shows where your top AOV dollars come from geographically. This helps you identify which countries most of your revenue is generated from and helps to expand the acquisition channels to increase your customer base in a country.