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KPI Definitions - New vs Existing Customers
KPI Definitions - New vs Existing Customers

KPI definitions for the New vs Existing Customer Dashboard

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Written by Hannah Shortle
Updated over a year ago

The New vs Existing Customers dashboard focuses on the differing behaviours between new and existing customers. Retail Analytics determines whether a customer is new or existing by looking at your entire order history. Each customer is only defined as 'new' when they place their first order with you; after that point they are defined as 'existing' no matter how long it has been since their previous order.

KPI definitions

  • New Visitors: The number of sessions from visitors who, according to Google's tracking snippet, have never been to your site before and are initiating their first session on your site.

  • Customers Acquired: The number of new customers you acquired, i.e. the number of customers who placed an order with you for the first time.

  • New Customer Gross Revenue: The gross revenue associated with orders placed by new customers.

  • New Customer Revenue %: The proportion of overall gross revenue that came from new customers.


    Formula: new customer gross revenue/total gross revenue

  • New Customer Gross Profit Margin %: The gross profit percentage of the orders placed by new customers including tax.


    Formula: (new customer gross revenue - new customer gross cost of goods sold - new customer shipping cost)/new customer gross revenue

  • New Customer AOV: The average value of orders placed by new customers.


    Formula: new customer gross revenue/number of orders placed by new customers

  • New Customer Discount %: The percentage of revenue lost to checkout discounts for new customer orders. This accounts for discounts applied at checkout only, e.g. a promo code. This does not include discounts as a result of marking items down.


    Formula: new customer checkout discount amount/(new customer gross revenue + new customer checkout discount amount)

  • CAC: Customer Acquisition Cost, or the average ad spend per new customer

    Formula: ad spend/customers acquired

  • Returning Visitors: The number of sessions from visitors who, according to Google's tracking snippet, have been to your site before.


    Formula: total sessions - new visitors

  • Existing Customers: The number of unique existing customers who placed an order in the selected date range.

  • Existing Customer Gross Revenue: The gross revenue associated with orders placed by existing customers.

  • Existing Customer Revenue %: The proportion of overall gross revenue that came from existing customers.


    Formula: existing customer gross revenue/total gross revenue

  • Existing Customer Gross Profit Margin %: The gross profit percentage of the orders placed by existing customers including tax.


    Formula: (existing customer gross revenue - existing customer gross cost of goods sold - existing customer shipping cost)/existing customer gross revenue

  • Existing Customer AOV: The average value of orders placed by existing customers.


    Formula: existing customer gross revenue/number of orders placed by existing customers

  • Existing Customer Discount %: The percentage of revenue lost to checkout discounts for existing customer orders. This accounts for discounts applied at checkout only, e.g. a promo code. This does not include discounts as a result of marking items down.


    Formula: existing customer checkout discount amount/(existing customer gross revenue + existing customer checkout discount amount)

  • Existing Customer Order Frequency: The average number of orders placed by each existing customer in your selected date range.


    Formula: number of orders placed by existing customers/number of existing customers

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