Drip Discounts records three numbers from your incoming orders. Knowing exactly how each one is built — and which orders make it in at all — saves a lot of confusion later.
Which orders get counted
Statistics are written when Shopify tells the app an order was created. An order is counted only if one of the discount lines on it has a title that exactly matches the title of one of your deal bars.
attribution is a plain text match on the deal-bar title. If you rename a deal bar, new orders stop matching and stop being counted, while your existing totals stay where they are. It looks exactly like your deals suddenly stopped working. Rename a bar only when you are willing to lose the continuity of its statistics.
Orders that never make it into the numbers:
- Orders placed before the theme block was activated, so no discount was ever applied.
- Orders with no discount on them at all.
- Orders whose discount title no longer matches any current deal-bar title, including anything you renamed.
The three metrics
- Sold items — the total quantity across every line item on the order that carried a discount. Lines with no discount on them are ignored.
- Total sales — the whole order's total price, not just the discounted lines. An order where one discounted item sits alongside three full-price items contributes the full basket value.
- Added revenue — a calculated figure intended to represent the extra value the deal produced. See the added-revenue article for the caveats.
All money values are stored internally in cents and shown in your store's own currency.
How the figures accumulate
- Figures are bucketed by calendar month behind the scenes, but the number you see in the app is the all-time total.
- There is no date filter and no way to reset the counters.
- The numbers only move when a qualifying order comes in, so they can sit still for a while on a quiet store.
Using the data
- Watch Sold items to see which quantities shoppers gravitate toward.
- Read Total sales as "value of baskets my deals appeared in", not "revenue from discounted items".
- If the numbers stop moving after you edited a deal, check first whether you renamed a deal bar.
Reviewing Regularly
Check your statistics periodically, especially after changing a deal — and note the date you changed it, since the totals are all-time and will not show you a before-and-after on their own.