I am trying to figure out the best way to track product sales from specific collection pages. I will be working with different creators and each creator will be tied to a specific collection page/collection. There is a good chance multiple creators will sell the same products, so I need to figure out the best way to distinguish which orders came from which collection page to pay out each creator I work with. Is there a simple way to do this? Looking at the order data in a CSV you are able to download, I don’t see a way for me to accomplish this.
Topic summary
A Shopify store owner needs to track which collection page generated each product sale to properly compensate different creators. Since multiple creators may sell identical products, standard order CSV exports don’t provide sufficient attribution data.
Proposed Solutions:
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Manual/automated tagging approaches: Use vendor fields, cart notes, cart attributes, or order tags to capture collection information. Apps like Mechanic can automate tagging orders based on cart attributes, product SKUs, or URL referrers.
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Native Shopify reports: Sales-by-product-vendor reports offer some tracking capability but may not solve the collection-specific attribution challenge.
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Third-party reporting tool: Mipler Reports claims to solve a common problem where products in multiple collections get sales attributed to all collections simultaneously. Their system tracks which specific collection page generated each purchase, providing accurate per-collection sales data through custom reporting.
The discussion remains open with multiple technical approaches available, ranging from DIY automation to specialized reporting apps.
The general way to do this is with vendor fields, cart notes, cart attributes or order tags.
If you must use collections you need a way to pass the collection name as a cart attribute, or automate a process to tag orders at the right phase in fulfillment.
If you need to automate there’s apps like usemechanic to add data to orders , they have some premade ones.
https://tasks.mechanic.dev/?q=order%20tag
- https://tasks.mechanic.dev/auto-tag-orders-with-a-cart-attribute
- https://tasks.mechanic.dev/auto-tag-new-orders-with-product-skus
- https://tasks.mechanic.dev/tag-orders-by-url-referrer
There’s also going through reports https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/reports-and-analytics/shopify-reports/report-types/sales-report#sales-by-product-vendor
Hi, @Lupodebupo
I’m Denis from Mipler Reports — great to meet you!
Unfortunately, there is no ways to build collections report without 3rd party tools.
A common challenge with many Shopify reporting tools is how they track sales across collections.
When a product is assigned to multiple collections—say 10—and a customer purchases it from just one, most tools will record that sale under all 10 collections.
This creates confusion and prevents you from accurately measuring the performance of each collection.
That’s where Mipler Reports comes in.
We’ve developed a solution that ensures each sale is attributed only to the collection it was actually purchased from.
Once our app is installed, your reports will display true, collection-specific sales data—so you can make decisions based on accurate insights.
For example, I have a test Gift Card product that appears in 3 collections (click to zoom):
With our system, I can clearly see which collection generated the sale—no duplication (click to zoom):
If you’re interested, I’d be happy to show you how it works.
We at Shopify app store:
https://apps.shopify.com/advanced-reports
Please note: Our support team provide full setup and adjustments of our app by your requirements.