Ignitio for Commerce™ Solution Specification
Ignitio for Commerce™ is an Ignitio Metrics Cloud™ SaaS solution for the consolidation, display, and collaborative use of digital commerce and advertising data for decision-support and performance management purposes.
Subscription to Ignitio for Commerce entitles subscribers to use the Ignitio Metrics Cloud in a mode that may extend or limit some features when compared with Ignitio Enterprise™ solutions. This specification describes the Ignitio for Commerce solution and is updated periodically to reflect ongoing solution releases.
1. Organization, Teams, Members, and Roles
Ignitio for Commerce offers your organization flexible decision support for each team’s needs and each user’s preferences. Subscribers may set up one Organization (e.g., your company or LOB), multiple Teams (e.g., Leadership, Marketing, Sales), and as many users as you’d like (your “Members”). Members can be assigned to more than one Team for collaborative planning, decision-making, and cross-functional tasking on metrics-driven performance optimization efforts.
Ignitio also features permissions-based user roles for simple, transparent control of who does what. These “Member Roles” enable you to collaborate efficiently and create ownership around mission-critical metrics and how they are managed and reported. Member Roles also determine which of your team members can customize your Ignitio solution.
Ignitio for Commerce subscription includes all Member Roles shown below.
Role |
Abilities |
Frequent Users (examples) |
“Viewer” |
View your team’s metrics clouds, metrics, comments & annotations. Create custom analysis clouds from available metrics. |
Line staff on up to executive team members who need to stay well-informed and make data-supported decisions aligned with performance goals. Also, key partner/ supplier teams and others you want to keep in-the-know. |
“Collaborator” |
Adds the ability to view metric-based goals, create and respond to comments & annotations, and export platform data. |
Staff and Managers from Commerce-focused teams including Marketing, Sales, Product, Customer Service, Ad Ops, Warehouse Ops, etc. |
“Editor” |
Adds the ability to create and manage goals, create and manage metrics, and edit metrics clouds based on team-level permissions. |
Marketing & Sales Execs, Product Line Leaders, Account Managers, Functional Managers, and others with performance mandates tied to a relatively consistent set of metrics. |
“Admin” |
Adds global management of teams and shared clouds. Connect new data sources, extend historical collection, buy add-on metrics, upgrade to Ignitio Enterprise, and/or request Ignitio Expert Services. |
Power Users including Senior Execs, LOB Leaders, staff directly supporting them, and others responsible for critical performance improvement initiatives that span the organization. |
2. Data Sources and Metric Collectors
Ignitio for Commerce includes automated preconfigured data collection from popular digital commerce platforms and providers via Ignitio Metric Collectors, resilient lightweight apps that connect via vendor API or direct database connection.
Ignitio for Commerce subscription includes Metric Collectors and other metric acquisition options as shown below.
Data Source |
Metrics Collection Method |
Shopify eCommerce |
Source-connected Ignitio Metric Collector |
Magento Commerce |
Source-connected Ignitio Metric Collector |
WooCommerce |
Source-connected Ignitio Metric Collector |
Google Analytics |
Source-connected Ignitio Metric Collector |
Google Ads |
Source-connected Ignitio Metric Collector |
Facebook-Instagram Insights |
Source-connected Ignitio Metric Collector |
File Upload/Manual Entry |
User or Ignitio-managed structured data uploads (.CSV files, spreadsheets, etc.) |
3. Data Storage
Ignitio for Commerce includes unlimited storage of your organization’s business performance data on our platform and digital infrastructure. “Unlimited” means no limits on data volume or retention period with continuing subscription.
4. Curated Metrics
Ignitio for Commerce subscription includes packaged, preconfigured business metrics collected from your sources and continuously curated by the Ignitio platform for unified display, analysis, decision-making and performance management.
Metric Type |
Description |
Curated Digital Commerce Metrics |
• Preconfigured key performance metrics (“KPMs”) collected and curated by Ignitio for the monitoring and optimization of digital commerce company performance.
• Important platform-calculated metrics generated from 2 or more measures from 1 or more sources. Subscriber creation of new calculated metrics based on existing KPMs is unlimited.
• Subscribers may opt to include up to one year of historical data (i.e., last year’s KPMs) via Metric Collector ingestion during subscription activation.
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Other Metrics |
• Subscription does not include additional uncurated metrics (“Add-On Metrics”) often available from the same data sources, which can be added via in-app purchase or by contacting Ignitio Expert Services.
• The ability to create new metrics from new data sources is restricted to Ignitio Enterprise. Subscribers can enable these and other advanced self-service features by upgrading to Enterprise.
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5. Multidimensional Metrics
Ignitio for Commerce subscription includes the ability to view your metrics enhanced or filtered by related contextual data also available from your sources (“Data Dimensions”). While a limited number of each metric’s potential dimensions are pre-packaged for use (Total Sales by Product, or by Campaign, but not by Country, for example), users can configure more as needed (up to 5 per metric, typically).
6. Ignitio for Commerce™ Metric Details
Ignitio for Commerce solution subscription includes anytime/anywhere/any device access to the Metrics Clouds, Metrics, and Dimensions below, which can be activated by users or by Ignitio Expert Services.
Metrics Clouds & Metrics |
Source |
Description with Dimension(s) |
Ecommerce Insight Cloud: Supports monitoring, analysis, and management of important ecommerce metrics. |
Lifetime Customers |
Shopify/Magento/WooCommerce |
Total Unique Customers w/ an Order (to date) |
Lifetime Gross Sales |
S/M/W1 |
Total Gross Sales (to date) |
Lifetime Customer Value |
Ignitio2 |
Lifetime Gross Sales / Lifetime Customers |
Orders |
S/M/W |
Total Order Count by Campaign |
Gross Sales |
S/M/W |
All Sales by Campaign w/ discounts (no cancels, refunds, taxes, shipping) |
Average Order Value |
Ignitio |
Gross Sales / Orders by Campaign |
Sales Quantity by Product |
S/M/W |
Line-item count of products sold, by Product Name |
Total Sales by Product |
S/M/W |
Sales by Product Name (no cancelations, refunds, tax, shipping) |
Discounts by Product |
S/M/W |
Total Discounts allocated, per Product Name |
Gross Sales by Product |
Ignitio |
Total Sales minus Discounts, per Product Name |
Refunds by Product |
S/M/W |
Product Refunds Allocated, per Product Name |
Net Sales by Product |
Ignitio |
Gross Sales minus Refunds, per Product Name |
Canceled Orders Gross Sales |
S/M/W |
Canceled Orders Gross Sales per Campaign |
Cancel Order Rate |
S/M/W |
Cancel Order Rate per Campaign |
Total Refund Transactions |
S/M/W |
Total Refund Transactions per Campaign |
Metrics Clouds & Metrics |
Source |
Description with Dimension(s) |
Web Traffic Cloud: Supports monitoring, analysis, and management of important website and webstore metrics. |
Users |
GA3 |
Total Number of Users, by Campaign and/or Source |
Sessions |
GAs |
Total Number of User Sessions by Campaign and/or Source |
Page Views |
GA |
Total Number of Page Views by Page Title |
Transactions |
GA |
Total Number of Transactions by Campaign and/or Source |
Revenue |
GA |
Total Revenue by Campaign and/or Source |
Visits with Product View |
GA |
Visits with Product View by Campaign and/or Source |
Visits with Add to Cart |
GA |
Visits with Add to Cart by Campaign and/or Source |
Visits with Checkout |
GA |
Visits with Checkout by Campaign and/or Source |
Visits with Transaction |
GA |
Visits with Transaction by Campaign and/or Source |
Visit Conversion Rate |
Ignitio |
Visit Conversion by Campaign and/or Source |
Checkout Conversion Rate |
Ignitio |
Checkout Conversion by Campaign and/or Source |
Google Ads Performance Cloud: Supports monitoring, analysis, and management of important advertising ROI metrics. |
Gross Sales Attributed to Google |
S/M/W |
Shopify’s Gross Google-Attributed Sales per Campaign |
Google Ad Spend |
GA |
Google Ad Spend per Campaign |
Google Ad Impressions |
GA |
Google Ad Impressions per Campaign |
Google Ad Clicks |
GA |
Google Ad Clicks per Campaign |
Google Ad CPM |
Ignitio |
Google Ad CPM per Campaign |
Google Ad CPC |
Ignitio |
Google Ad CPC per Campaign |
Google Ad RPC |
Ignitio |
Google Ad RPC per Campaign |
Google ROAS |
Ignitio |
Aggregated Return on Google Ad Spend Index |
Facebook-Instagram Performance Cloud: Supports monitoring, analysis, and management of important advertising ROI metrics. |
Gross Sales Attributed to Facebook |
S/M/W |
Shopify’s Gross FB-Attributed Sales per Campaign |
Facebook Ad Spend |
FB4 |
Facebook Ad Spend per Campaign |
Facebook Ad Impressions |
FB |
Facebook Ad Impressions per Campaign |
Facebook Ad Clicks |
FB |
Facebook per Campaign |
Facebook Ad CPM |
Ignitio |
Facebook Ad CPM per Campaign |
Facebook Ad CPC |
Ignitio |
Facebook Ad CPC per Campaign |
Facebook Ad RPC |
Ignitio |
Facebook Ad RPC per Campaign |
“Most-Used” Metrics Cloud: Provides a consolidated view of your organization’s most important and frequently-used metrics. |
Most Critical Metrics |
All |
User-manageable summary cloud of mission-critical KPMs |
KPM Variance Cloud: Supports comparison, analysis, and resolution of differences in key metrics reported from multiple sources.. |
Revenue & Sales Metrics |
Shopify/GA |
Comparative revenue and sales KPMs from supporting clouds. |
1Choose metrics sourced from Shopify (S), Magento (M), or WooCommerce (W). Other preconfigured options may be available—please inquire.
2Ignitio metrics are typically platform-calculated compound metrics sourced and curated by Ignitio from multiple data sources (i.e., “Calculated Metrics”).
3Google Analytics
4Facebook-Instagram
7. Solution Capabilities & Features
Ignitio for Commerce subscription enables your team’s use of the platform capabilities and features below, available upon subscription activation with limits/restrictions as noted.
Capabilities/Features |
Status |
Description/Subscription Limits* |
DATA CONSOLIDATION |
Metric Collectors |
enabled |
Preconfigured data collection for Shopify, Magento, WooCommerce, Google Analytics, Google AdWords, and/or Facebook Insight. |
Secure Cloud Data Storage |
enabled |
Unlimited storage. Automatic backups. Disaster recovery and business continuity infrastructure, processes, and protocols enabled. |
Self-Serve Metrics Library |
enabled |
Access to all curated Digital Commerce performance metrics configured in the Ignitio for Commerce solution template and starter-pack. |
Metric Dimensions |
enabled |
Preconfigured contextual data dimensions and up to 5 more user-defined dimensions per metric. Dimension Element renaming is limited. |
METRICS VISUALIZATION |
Learning Sciences-Based UI |
enabled |
Purpose-built, evidence-based user interface enabled for desktop, tablet, and smartphone use. |
Graphical Real-time Metrics |
enabled |
Graphical metric “tiles” for instant visual communication of multifaceted measurement data (current value, trendline, goal status, alerts, more). |
Interactive Multidimensional Charts & Graphs |
enabled |
Interactive multidimensional graph/chart/table data representations for understanding a metric’s performance over time, and in other ways. |
View Customization – “Sectioning” |
enabled |
Cloud View section creation w/ drag-&-drop metric grouping. User changes to other views and elements such as color ramps are limited. |
“TV Mode” Display & Shareable Playlists |
enabled |
Large-format dynamic display mode. Limited interactivity & on-screen notation features. Shareable Playlists not enabled. |
DECISION SUPPORT |
Performance Data Analytics |
enabled |
User-driven visual data exploration and analysis fully enabled. Limited on-screen tutorial guidance. |
Calculated Metrics |
enabled |
Preconfigured platform-calculated Digital Commerce KPMs and the ability for users to create unlimited additional metrics from them. |
On-Chart Commenting & Annotation |
enabled |
User-contributed persistent private/shareable comments and annotations at the metric and datapoint levels. |
Smart Alerts & Triggers |
enabled |
User-configurable metric-linked Smart Alerts. Metric-based process automation triggers require Ignitio setup. |
Save My View/Save My Filters |
enabled |
Ability to preserve all elements of a user-defined Data View for later retrieval “As Saved” or “Updated” with the most recent available data. |
Performance Reporting |
enabled |
Scheduled and automated distribution of reports in multiple formats and modes. Ignitio Playlists not enabled. |
COLLABORATION & PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT |
User & Team Management |
enabled |
“Join Us” email-based user onboarding, team creation and management, and role/permissions assignment. |
Accountability Management |
enabled |
Metric and goal assignment to teams and individuals, including the ability to instantly contact responsible parties. |
Metrics-Driven Goal Management |
enabled |
Metric-based goal creation and management. AI/ML-guided goal-setting assistance not enabled. |
Member Messaging |
enabled |
Secure, native, threaded, user-to-user instant messaging. |
Notification & Alert Management |
enabled |
Creation and management of Member Notifications and Alerts. |
Benchmarking |
enabled |
Internal benchmark creation and management. Links to external services not enabled. |
*Some advanced capabilities may be included in future releases of Ignitio for Commerce. Others will remain limited to Ignitio Enterprise Edition.
8. Customer Support & Solution Customization
Customer Support is available to Ignitio users during East Coast business hours at support@origin-www.ignitio-dev.com. Ignitio also offers several ways to extend your Ignitio for Commerce solution to support evolving requirements and new use cases.
- Authorized users can configure additional data dimensions for each metric to view it in multiple contexts, and can create new calculated metrics from existing metrics. Contact Customer Support at support@origin-www.ignitio-dev.com for help.
- Hundreds of additional metrics available from Ignitio for Commerce data sources can be activated as subscription add-ons by Ignitio Admins. You may also contact support@origin-www.ignitio-dev.com.
- Advanced capabilities and metrics from more business systems and services can be added via upgrade to Ignitio Enterprise. Contact us at 1.800.490.1891 or sales@origin-www.ignitio-dev.com to discuss your seamless upgrade.
- Solution customization, C-suite advisory services, and outsourced analytics are available from our top-flight Expert Services team. Contact services@origin-www.ignitio-dev.com to discuss such assistance at any time.