With over 1,700 positive reviews in the Shopify app store, Bold Subscriptions is a popular solution for Shopify merchants selling by subscription. It’s plug-and-play but highly scalable for Shopify Plus.

In order to really scale your subscription business, you need complete sales and marketing data. This doesn’t just help with improving marketing ROI, but also increasing engagement and delighting your customers, which in turn leads to higher AOV and LTV. But whether you’re on Shopify or Shopify Plus, subscription analytics can be complicated to set up manually — not to mention ongoing maintenance and QA of your custom scripts and GTM containers.

With that in mind, we are especially excited to announce an updated Bold integration that works for both Bold Subscriptions and Bold Cashier. Littledata’s Bold Subscriptions connection enables advanced Google Analytics tracking so you can make sales and marketing decisions based on accurate data. Setup takes less than 15 minutes.

Bold Subscriptions tracking

Subscription customers are notoriously difficult to acquire, so it’s especially important to figure out how to predict which new subscribers will stick with your business for years to come. Sales and marketing decisions ultimately come down to data about sales channels and retention. But do you trust your marketing channel breakdown? What about your LTV cohorts?

Littledata’s Bold connection works in tandem with our main Shopify connection to ensure complete data about subscription sales. Our Shopify app for Google Analytics and Shopify app for Segment both use a combination of server-side and client-side tracking to capture everything that happens in your Shopify store.

You can connect your Bold checkout with just a few extra steps to get complete tracking.

This includes:

• First-time subscription orders
• One-off purchases (regular Shopify sales)
• Recurring orders
• Refunds

Not only that, but we stitch sessions together automatically so that the first-time purchase and recurring purchases are tied back to the original marketing channel. During the integration setup, we’ll also ask you to create additional Views in GA so you can easily analyze subscriber behavior (like how a particular cohort of subscription box customers behaves over time) vs. first-time purchases (which channels or campaigns led to that initial sale). 

The data is available directly in Google Analytics or Segment (or any connected tools and platforms you might be using, such as Glew, Data Studio or Tableau). And our data layer works easily with GTM (Google Tag Manager).

Marketing attribution

The question we hear most often at Littledata is, “Why doesn’t my Shopify data match Google Analytics?”

This is just as true for Shopify as for Shopify Plus. As we’ve optimized our tracking solution for Shopify Plus (scalability, multi-currency tracking, cross-domain tracking, etc), we’ve found that marketing attribution is still a major pain point for stores that aren’t using Littledata. Shopify is a phenomenal platform, it just needs a few extra integrations to make the plug-and-play apps work well with your data setup.

Before Littledata

Unless you have full-time developers who have built a custom solution for your Shopify tracking, you will likely see a lot of traffic attributed to “Direct” in Google Analytics, sometimes as much as 99%. We have found that 88% of Shopify stores have inaccurate data in Google Analytics, and the direct-traffic issue is especially bad, off by at least 20% for a majority of those stores!

This means that without Littledata, your marketing analysis can feel a lot like guesswork (or endless hours piecing data together in Excel from all hour different ad platforms and sales tools).

After Littledata

Littledata’s smart tech stitches sessions together automatically so that you’ll see a much more accurate view of marketing channels, including email, PPC, paid search and referrals.

Our Shopify apps use a combination of client-side and server-side tracking ensure that every user touch point is captured and sent back to Google Analytics. Adding the Bold Subscriptions integration extends this tracking to recurring Bold orders as well.

See our help center for documentation about how Littledata’s tracking works, or watch a quick demo video.