Sometimes merchants ask why they need to give us approval to collect their store's orders data. Here's what our system collects and why:
Internally just so you know: We read order data to power autopilot suggestions, and (in the future) to measure conversions. There’s currently no way to avoid it, but that’s definitely a feature that could be added in the future.
What I usually say to the merchant is something like:
“We use anonymized order data to power the app’s Autopilot suggestions, and we don’t store any personal information whatsoever about your customers. Unfortunately, Shopify does not currently provide a way to access only anonymous data about orders at this time, so we need to ask permission to read the entire order. We don’t currently have a way to avoid this, sorry.”
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FYI, here is a complete order record from our DB:
Order id: 63398327, <br>shop_id: 32085, <br>shopify_id: 929567473786, <br>created_at: "2020-01-08 16:47:20", <br>updated_at: "2020-01-08 16:47:20", <br>line_item_product_shopify_ids: [2817723236474, 2857770909818], <br>product_shopify_ids: ["2817723236474", "2857770909818"], <br>total: 0.4492e2, <br>cart_token: "c884ce8c29d7feb4c20369f978484377", <br>shopper_country: "US", <br>discount_code: nil, <br>unique_product_ids: [2817723236474, 2857770909818], <br>referring_site: "<a href="http://m.facebook.com/">http://m.facebook.com</a>", <br>orders_count: 1
There’s some duplicate info in there, but what we store is:
the order id
the ids of the products purchased
the order total
the cart token
the shopper’s country
the referring site
the discount code used, if any
and the # of orders the shopper has placed