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richtheo
#1 Posted : Wednesday, June 25, 2008 5:16:11 AM(UTC)
richtheo

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Having used BVC5 SP2 for over 9 months in a live environment and now having a good volume of business, we have realised that we are losing a significant percentage of sales for reasons that we simply cannot diagnose.

We are seeing these problems by using SQL Management Studio to execute the following query
SELECT bvc_Order.OrderNumber,bvc_Order.TimeOfOrder,bvc_Order.IsPlaced,bvc_Order.PaymentStatus,bvc_Order.ShippingStatus,bvc_Order.StatusName,
CAST(bvc_LineItem.Quantity AS Int) As Qty,
CAST(bvc_LineItem.QuantityShipped AS Int) As QtyShipped,
CAST(bvc_LineItem.QuantityReturned AS Int) As QtyReturned,
bvc_LineItem.ProductName, bvc_LineItem.ProductSku, bvc_Order.UserEmail, bvc_Order.UserId
FROM bvc_Order INNER JOIN bvc_LineItem
ON bvc_Order.bvin = bvc_LineItem.OrderBvin
ORDER BY TimeOfOrder DESC

This is the only way (other than website log examination or analytics) to get a list of customers that reached the basket/checkout but never closed their sales.
Take a look at the attached image.

You can see that there are far too many sales reaching the basket but never closing. You can tell this from the lack of an OrderNumber being allocated and by IsPlaced being false. Also from payment status.

1. We would love to have access to this kind of info from the Admin UI of BVC.
2. Its hard to tell which lines are grouped together from the same user. Please can you add the "IP address" and/or "session#" to the database so that there's some easier way to do this. At the moment its impossible.

Of course finally, and most importantly, we have no idea why these sales don't complete. The percentages are too high. Any ideas welcome on how to understand this.

The site is http://www.beauty2u.com
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MitchA
#2 Posted : Wednesday, June 25, 2008 7:34:31 AM(UTC)
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Here's a similar thread: There are others, too.

http://forums.bvcommerce...2&g=57546#m57546

I don't believe that all of these would ever have become completed orders. My site collects a lot of $0.00 carts too - we all do and it can't be a BVC only phenominon. My shoppers CAN'T go elswhere to buy my products, so it isn't a case of price shopping. When I first got my site up and running I got calls when someone had a problem pushing an order through, so I know my phone rings when there's a shopper having a problem.


Quite a few of your carts have the same time-stamp indicating ONE shopper for 2 product lines. I think you have a line per item, not shopper, so I think you've got 8 shoppers in your img, not 11.

No call, no problem, so I don't think the shopper ever intended to complete the purchase. I don't see these as lost sales, just shoppers bailing for some reason.

Nearly all of my products have choices and 'bots don't build products and then click the 'add to cart' button so I'm sure it isn't Google.


Corneliu.... How about rolling this sql into an admin thingy....?

Is there any way to have a pop-up ask the shopper why the cart is being abandoned? (a second bite at the apple)

Any chance these are being wish-listed?
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CorneliuTusnea
#3 Posted : Wednesday, June 25, 2008 10:50:53 PM(UTC)
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Mitch,
The stats that my plugin would provide would give you all these details but I've lagged a bit in finishing it.
We have some legal stuff going on with our shops so I didn't have the time to finish it. I'm sorry.

Regarding your popup, I think that would be quite distressing for some users.
I generally hate websites that open a new page while you try to close the last page on the site. They look like those dodgy websites that keep redirecting you to some other odd page.
I wouldn't do such a popup.

Regards,
Corneliu.
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