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Google Analytics Tracks Traffic. SaleTides Tracks Your WooCommerce Revenue.

GA4 is excellent at telling you how people find your store. It can't tell you your MRR, customer lifetime value, churn rate, or which customers are about to leave. That's what SaleTides is for.

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Different tools, different jobs

The Right Tool for the Right Question

They answer completely different questions. Most high-growth WooCommerce stores use both.

Use Google Analytics for...

  • Understanding where your traffic comes from
  • Measuring conversion rates across landing pages
  • Tracking ad campaign performance by channel
  • Monitoring bounce rate and session behaviour

Use SaleTides for...

  • Real-time revenue, refund rate, and AOV
  • MRR, ARR, churn rate, and subscriber lifecycle
  • Customer lifetime value and segmentation
  • Cohort retention analysis
  • AI-powered revenue forecasting
  • Pre-built financial reports with CSV export

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Google Analytics vs SaleTides

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SaleTides
Primary focus
Website traffic & sessions
WooCommerce revenue & customers
Revenue tracking
eCommerce events (setup required)
Automatic via WooCommerce REST API
Subscription metrics
Not available
MRR, ARR, churn, active subscribers
Customer LTV
Estimated, not store-accurate
Calculated from actual order history
Cohort analysis
Session-based cohorts
Purchase & subscription cohorts
Refund tracking
Manual event setup
Automatic, with rate & trend
Customer segmentation
Audience segments (traffic-based)
Purchase behaviour segments
AI forecasting
Purchase probability models
Revenue & churn forecasting
Pre-built reports
Traffic & acquisition reports
Revenue, refund, product, customer
Data freshness
24–48hr delay (standard)
Real-time

Common Questions

SaleTides is not a direct replacement for Google Analytics — they serve different purposes. GA4 tracks website traffic, sessions, and acquisition channels. SaleTides tracks WooCommerce revenue, customer lifetime value, subscription metrics, refund rates, and cohort retention. Most serious WooCommerce stores use both.

SaleTides tells you your MRR, ARR, churn rate, customer lifetime value, repeat purchase rate, refund rate by product, cohort retention, and AI revenue forecasts. Google Analytics focuses on traffic and conversion events — it doesn't calculate subscription metrics or tell you which customers are at risk of leaving.

GA4 is built around sessions and events. It can track eCommerce events, but it doesn't understand WooCommerce's data model — subscriptions, refunds, order statuses, and customer purchase history aren't surfaced in a way that's useful for store management. You need a tool built specifically for WooCommerce revenue analytics.

Yes. SaleTides and GA4 are complementary. Use GA4 for traffic, acquisition, and conversion tracking. Use SaleTides for revenue intelligence — subscriptions, customer LTV, churn, cohorts, and pre-built financial reports.

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Keep GA4 for traffic. Add SaleTides for everything that happens after the click — revenue, customers, subscriptions, and growth.

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