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Store revenue is sessions times conversion rate times average order value. The levers multiply, so a small lift on each is worth more than a large lift on one. Enter your own monthly numbers and a lift you believe is achievable, and compare what each lever returns before you buy more traffic.

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Monthly revenue with your numbers

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Lift sessions aloneExtra revenue per month
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Lift conversion rate aloneExtra revenue per month
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Lift order value aloneExtra revenue per month
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Lift all three togetherLarger than the sum, because the levers multiply
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How the levers work

Revenue for a period is the number of sessions, times the share of sessions that place an order, times the value of the average order. Because the three multiply, a ten percent lift on any one of them adds the same revenue, and a ten percent lift on all three adds more than three times that, since each lift compounds the others. That is the arithmetic behind working on conversion and order value before buying more traffic: the traffic lever is the only one whose cost rises as it grows.

What to put in each field

Use monthly sessions from analytics, the store's overall conversion rate for the same period, and average order value from the platform's order data rather than from an ad platform. The lift is the percentage improvement you want to test on each lever; keep it the same for all three so the comparison is fair. A ten percent lift means conversion moves from 1.6 percent to 1.76 percent, not to 11.6 percent.

Reading the result honestly

The calculator shows what each lever would be worth, not what it will cost to move it. Traffic usually costs money for every extra session; conversion and order value usually cost a fixed amount of work and then keep paying. Purchase frequency, the fourth lever, sits outside a monthly view and is better read through repeat purchase rate and customer lifetime value. The Growth Analysis puts the cost side next to these figures for your store.

Questions about this tool

Why is the combined lift larger than the three individual lifts added together?

Because the levers multiply rather than add. Ten percent more sessions, each converting ten percent better, at ten percent higher order value, produces about a third more revenue, not thirty percent. The compounding is the whole reason to work on more than one lever at once.

Which lever should a store work on first?

Usually the one furthest below what the store's own templates and traffic sources suggest is possible, which the calculator cannot know. As a rule, conversion and order value fixes are cheaper and keep paying, and traffic is bought last once the store converts it well. The diagnosis decides the order.

Does the calculator include purchase frequency?

Not in the monthly view, because frequency plays out over a year or more. Use the CAC payback calculator to see how repeat orders change the value of a customer, and track repeat purchase rate separately.

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