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Words we use

Word Meaning
AI sales Sales linked to an AI assistant. They can overlap with creators and other sources.
Average order value The average amount of an order, before refunds.
Badge A small label, such as Tracking on.
Cart helper An optional add-on that saves who sent a shopper in their cart.
Channel A group of sources, such as Social (unpaid) or Email.
Conversion rate The share of tracked visitors who bought.
Creator A person you give a link or discount code to.
Credit Naming who or what brought an order. Each order is credited once. Some orders can’t be credited.
Credited sales Sales credited to someone or something you can thank.
Days to order Time from a shopper’s first visit to their order.
Direct ThanksTo saw no link, such as someone typing your address.
Discount code A code you made in Shopify. Once linked to a creator, it can credit them.
Exit page The last page of a visit.
First visit The visit where a shopper found your store.
Landing page The page where a visit starts.
Locked An order over your plan’s monthly limit. Who to thank stays hidden until you move to a plan that covers it or the month ends.
Net sales Order totals after refunds, with tax and shipping included.
Not counted POS (in-person), draft and other sales channel orders. They aren’t credited and don’t count toward your plan.
Not tracked Nothing recorded where the shopper came from. The order stays in your sales.
Order tags Labels ThanksTo adds to credited orders in Shopify.
Pixel ThanksTo’s small add-on, connected through Shopify, that records visits.
Post-purchase survey A short question, “How did you hear about us?”, that shoppers see after they order.
Referring page The page that sent a shopper to your store.
Repeat customer A customer who ordered more than once. Also an optional kind of credit.
Returning sales Net sales from customers who had ordered before.
Sales Online store and AI orders, after refunds, for the dates you chose.
Shopify data ThanksTo didn’t see the visit, so it uses the source Shopify recorded.
Source Where a shopper came from, such as Instagram or Google.
Stats link A link to a creator’s visits, orders and net sales. Anyone with it can open it.
Store funnel The steps shoppers take toward an order.
Tile A small box that shows one number.
Tracked visit ThanksTo saw the visit, through one of your links, an ad or another website.
Unpaid Payment is pending. ThanksTo credits the order once it’s paid.
UTM tags Labels at the end of a link that say where it was shared.
Visit One trip to your store. It ends after 30 minutes with no activity.
Visitor One browser on your store. One person on two devices counts as two visitors.