Marketing Automation Secrets: 7 Ways Experts Use Convert with Zapier to Get More Out of Their Tests

29th Oct 2018 –

Introduction

Zapier and Convert can help: Every new Stripe payment or Shopify sale can post into a #sales channel for your organization (you can also use a different channel for those customers who visited original and another channel for the variation), keeping your whole team in the loop.
One Multi-Step Zap can take a new Stripe customer, subscribe them to your MailChimp list, add an entry to a Pipedrive CRM, then give your #newcustomers team a heads up in Slack, complete with the context of the variants they’ve come from.
You can also trigger the surveys and review forms if prospects hit certain goals that you have specified within Convert Experiences for particular tests. This is as good as asking them to talk about their perception of your brand after being exposed to a variant.
http://[project_id].track.convertexperiments.com/track/?c=[customer_id]&p=[project_id]&e=[experiment_id]-[variation_id]&g=[goal_id]&ga=1
Many of these don’t require a programming background, and are within the reach of your non-developer, but curious, marketer.
Start taking advantage with the following integrations:
Sending surveys to your customers is a great way to learn more about the way they perceive your e-commerce business.

Zapier automates tasks between web apps.
Let’s say you use Google BigQuery as your warehouse and you want to send your Convert data to it.
In a nutshell, Zapier lets you create connections to push data from one app to another using triggers and actions.
Zapier not only takes care of the follow-up tasks which may be neglected in the fervour of testing, it also conveys a critical context – more information about the first touchpoint with your business (in this case your variants) to all your interconnected systems.
Webhooks make this possible.
It has built-in support for hundreds and hundreds of apps.
Each version of your A/B test has a separate Variation ID. It can be found by doing a live preview for each variation and picking up the number after the convert_e query parameter inside the preview URL.
The technology stack of any marketer in 2018 is more complex than it’s ever been.
Remember, the Convert Experiences data is also a part of “customer data”. Armed with this context, you can personalize the messages that Order Tracking Systems send out, echoing the emotions (and the branding) which pushed the prospect to convert.

Integrate Convert Experiences with Zapier

Set up Integration

• Create a Zapier account.
• Add Convert Experiences Tracking Code to your website as described here.
• Create a new “Javascript Triggered Goal” in Convert. Give it a descriptive name.

The invaluable information becomes a part of your prospects email history and can also help project, in the long run, the Lifetime Value of a buyer who has converted from a particular test.

Push URL

It uses engaging interfaces, quizzes and surveys to gather marketing data in a way that’s more effective than plain, blunt asking.
To set up an integration, you should follow these steps:

Please keep in mind that Convert’s role in such a setting is two-fold:

project_id

For example, if project_id is 1111_2222, then 1111 represent the customer_id and 2222 represents the project_id.
Very much possible by connecting a social marketing platform like Wyng to our a/b testing platform, Convert Experiences.

customer_id

experiment_id

We want Convert to tell Zapier “hey, someone entered the experiment and here are the details they entered with”, and then Zapier throws that to other apps.

variation_id

The solution? Zapier.
Goal ID can be found in “Goals Overview” by clicking on the name of the goal.
You can follow-up with your buyers in a way that respects and builds on their first interaction with you – which in this case may be through a particular test variant.

goal_id

Maintaining your customer information is extremely important to your sales and marketing efforts.

Create Zapier Webhook:

• Select a Webhook with the GET method
• Fill the URL with all the different [id’s] you got from the above steps and replace them to match this format: http://[project_id].track.convertexperiments.com/track/?c=[customer_id]&p=[project_id]&e=[experiment_id]-[variation_id]&g=[goal_id]&ga=1 (yes also remove the [ and ] symbols).
• Send as JSON tuned to No and leave all other fields empty.

What’s Next?

Simply add Convert as a Segment source and Stitch as a Segment destination and let it happen seamlessly.
Activate the goal for an experiment.
Integrating your Shopify orders with these platforms can save you valuable time and allow you or your team focus on the “dazzle and delight” tasks that accompany each order.

• Define a trigger: The first event that instigates another action. The trigger might be something like “A New Email in Gmail” or “A New Payment in PayPal.”
• Define an action: An action is what happens after the trigger. It might be something like “Create a Contact in Highrise” or “Send an email to the accounting department.”
• Check to make sure your Zap works and then you’re all set. Zapier will monitor for the trigger and complete the actions associated.
• Repeat for more tasks! You can make up to 5 Zaps for free, and Zapier has paid plans that offer a lot more functionality.

then the variation ID is 10023753.

Convert Recommends:

Syncing Customer Data with Mailing Lists: Which Experiments are Driving Revenue and How Much?

Experiment ID can be found inside the Experiment report by clicking on the “Report Settings” icon.
All the bold elements have to be replaced with actual values as follows:
This is great in many ways — we’ve never had more choice — but on the other hand, connecting these information sources can be extremely challenging. Many vendors require custom integrations from a software team to feed back into their marketing platforms, which means in reality it often doesn’t get fed in at all.
Every time a subscriber’s payment clears for their subscription, you’ll need to send a receipt. Automation makes this a hands-off task. By setting up a zap, you can generate a new sales receipt any time the given customer action is completed.
Here are some out of the box ways smart Convert testers use the connection between Convert Experiences and Zapier.
The structure of such an URL is the following, where each element marked by brackets and bold is explained below:

Syncing Customer Data with Order Tracking Systems: Personalize When No One Else Does

Rather than manually creating an invoice for each new subscription you get, you can use Zapier to integrate ReCharge and your invoicing tool (like Saasu) and automate this important task.
Consistently inviting your customers to take part in these activities will increase their overall effectiveness. Now you can paint a very granular picture of your buyers with objective test data from Convert Experiences and subjective information from their surveys and reviews.
But – how do you get that data into your systems, extract insights and then set up a sequence of automated actions to capitalize on the opportunities that running the tests is generating?
Doesn’t get any better!

Syncing Customer Data with CRMs and Support Systems: Live Up to Expectations

The following examples are just a few of the ways you can start syncing customer data with your email lists.
Unfortunately, Convert isn’t one of them. But Convert does have the ability to take visitor data from a particular experiment and throw it to Zapier in the form of a “webhook”.
Automatically adding customers to your CRM portal or support platform, complete with experiment data, will ensure that you have up-to-date inputs about the people who matter.
They call each connection, made up of a single trigger and a single action, a “Zap.”

Using Shopify to Trigger Surveys and Reviews: Learn More About How Tests Impact Visitors

Let’s see what this looks like in real life.
Conversions can be triggered by calling a specific URL that contains all the needed info.
Email marketing is a proven tool for driving repeat e-commerce sales.

This can be found in “Project Settings”. This field combines the account ID and project ID separated by an underscore.

Celebrating Product Sales with your Team: Let Everyone Know Which Tests are Working

Google BiqQuery will be added as a Stitch destination and the rows will start to appear:
A webhook is effectively a notification that something has happened.
For example, if the preview URL is http://staging.convert.com/?convert_action=convert_vpreview&convert_v=1002704493&convert_e=10023753,
Keeping your mailing list up-to-date with the latest customer data is essential to maximizing your efforts in digital marketing.

ETL Convert Data to your Data Warehouse

Below you’ll find some zaps to get you started syncing your customer data with your CRM or support system.
First step, you have to integrate Convert with Zapier so that for each Convert experiment, the integration will pass along the experiment name, variation name and goal id that the website visitor is currently bucketed into (if any).

There are more vendors out there than you can count, and you’ll often find yourself using a variety of different tools for different situations.
The Stitch-Zapier-Convert integration will ETL Zapier data to your warehouse, giving you access to raw customer data, without the headache of writing and maintaining ETL scripts.
Each new lead needs to be entered as a new client in your invoicing software — but doing that manually would be an extremely time-consuming task. Instead, use a zap to automatically set up new clients in your invoicing software (like FreshBooks) with a ‘new customer’ trigger.

Managing Invoices: Automating Critical Test Follow-Ups

Customer reviews are similar but allow your customers to make informed purchases, leaving them confident in their shopping decisions.
When you sell products online, customer experience is key, and there’s nothing stopping your team from getting to know every new customer.

• You can either maintain experiment data to add depth to your customers’ background in your systems.
• Or you can trigger Zaps when certain goals are hit within experiments and streamline your entire testing process with automated actions.

customer_id as described in the previous step.

Generating an invoice for new subscriptions (Saasu)

Luckily, with the explosion in marketing technology there’s been a parallel explosion in available tooling.

Generating receipt for payment of an existing subscription (QuickBooks)

Zapier – Convert is a team you didn’t even know you needed in your life. But trust me – you absolutely did.

Creating a new client in invoicing software (FreshBooks)

The life of your Shopify store orders don’t end when your customers check out. If you keep track of those orders in another database or task manager, transferring that information can become time-consuming and prone to error.

Marketers + Zapier-Convert, Better Together

Well, the experiment, variation and goal IDs of the variants come under the umbrella of customer data once the connection is established. With these it is easy to identify the tests that are driving the most sales for you when prospects buy from your Shopify store.
To illustrate this, let’s assume that you wish to enter prospects who view a particular variant, directly into a nice snazzy sweepstake on your Facebook.