Performance reports
Performance reports provide a comprehensive overview of your subscription program’s health and effectiveness, segmented into three key dashboards. Use the Performance dashboards to understand your subscription program’s performance across metrics, track overall sales and customer acquisition, and uncover lifetime trends for both subscribers and non-subscribers.
This guide explains the information available in the Benchmarks, Checkout, and Lifetime revenue dashboards.
Before you start
- The Checkout and Lifetime revenue dashboards are in Early Adopter status. To request access to this feature, fill out the Checkout dashboard or Lifetime revenue dashboard interest form. See Early Adopter Program for more information.
Benchmarks dashboard
The Benchmarks Dashboard displays your subscription program’s performance across three key metrics: Active Churn, Passive Churn, and Average Order Value (AOV). This dashboard shows how your store is performing relative to others in your industry, helping you identify areas for improvement.
Available metrics
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Metric |
Definition |
Active Churn |
Compare your customers that are actively cancelling their subscriptions with industry benchmarks, allowing you to identify areas to improve customer retention. |
Passive Churn | Monitor the loss of customers due to factors such as failed payments and compare these rates across industry benchmarks to help you reduce involuntary customer churn. |
Average Order Value (AOV) | Analyze your Average Order Value against industry benchmarks, helping you understand your performance and identify areas where you may be able to increase revenue. |
% of checkout orders with a subscription | The percentage of processed checkout orders that included at least one subscription product. |
Metric scores
A score is displayed for each metric, determined by your store's percentage ranking on the most recently completed month:
- Excellent - Your store's performance is in the top 75% of stores within their vertical.
- Good - Your store's performance is at or above the median, below the 75th percentile of stores within their vertical.
- Fair - Your store's performance is below the median, but above the 25th percentile of stores within their vertical.
- Poor - Your store's performance is in the bottom 25% of stores within their vertical.
Chart data
Additionally, each metric contains a chart visualizing your store’s monthly performance over time. The following table defines what the chart regions indicate.
Chart regions | Score range |
Green line | The 75th percentile score |
Green area | The “Excellent” score range (between 99th and 75th percentile) |
Cobalt line | The median score |
Cobalt area | The “Good” score range (between 75th and 50th percentile) |
Yellow area | The “Fair” score range (between 50th and 25th percentile) |
Red line | The 25th percentile score |
Pink area |
The “Poor” score range |
Checkout dashboard
- Shopify Checkout Integration
- Migrated Shopify Checkout Integration
- Recharge Checkout on Shopify
The Checkout dashboard tracks subscriber acquisition in the context of overall sales and new customer acquisition. This dashboard gives insights into:
- The percentage of checkout orders completed with a subscription product included
- The percentage of checkout orders placed by new and returning customers, as well as active and churned subscribers
- The percentage of new customers acquired as subscribers versus non-subscribers
- The percentage of new subscribers who subscribed on their first order, versus on a recurring order, as well as which order they were acquired on
Available metrics
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The Checkout dashboard displays the following metrics based on the filtered time period. The dashboard also displays the metrics over time so that you can understand your customers’ behaviors, and gauge the success of your subscription products.
Metric |
Definition |
Percent of checkout orders with a subscription |
The percent of processed checkout orders that included at least one subscription product. |
Checkout units sold: Subscription vs. one-time |
The percentage of product units sold in checkout orders as either subscription or one-time products. |
Checkout order by customer type |
A breakdown of checkout orders placed, based on whether they were placed by:
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New customers: Purchased subscription on 1st order |
A breakdown of customers based on whether they purchased a subscription product in their first order. Customers are defined by the following:
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New subscribers: Subscribed on 1st order vs. subscribed on returning order |
A breakdown of new subscribers categorized by those who subscribed on their first order, versus those who subscribed on a returning order:
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New subscribers by order number subscribed at |
The number of new subscribers during the specified period, categorized by whether they subscribed on their first or later orders. The displayed order number represents the first order from the customer to include a subscription product. |
Lifetime revenue dashboard
- Shopify Checkout Integration
- Migrated Shopify Checkout Integration
- Recharge Checkout on Shopify
The Lifetime Revenue dashboard displays the difference in lifetime revenue and orders between subscribers and non-subscribers over their first twelve, twenty-four, or thirty-six months.
Available metrics
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The Lifetime revenue dashboard displays the following metrics based on the filtered cohort range.
Metric |
Definition |
Subscriber vs. non-subscriber avg. lifetime revenue |
The average lifetime revenue from both subscribers and non-subscribers by the end of a given period.
Lifetime revenue includes the revenue from subscription and non-subscription orders. The revenue amount includes tax and shipping, with no deductions for returns or refunds.
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Subscriber vs. non-subscriber avg. lifetime orders |
The average lifetime number of orders placed by both subscribers and non-subscribers by the end of a given period.
The average number of orders includes subscription and non-subscription orders. |