What does the 'other' sales channel in Shopify mean?

Hello,

This is my first time using the Shopify community so I am excited to see if this works! I am trying to clean up my data to give better insights to my clients.

Here are my stats from this past month:

Received 11 orders total from Shopify

  • 2 from the “online store” sales channel
  • 9 from “other”

A) What is the “other” sales channel - what traffic source is this attributed to?

B) What are the “online store” channel sales attributed to in terms of traffic source?

To note:

  • sales by traffic source is showing some “Search” and some “direct”

  • 2 purchases were made via Google Ads so is this attributed to “online store” or " other"

  • In Google Analytics it shows only receiving 8 purchases coming from (direct and organic sources)

Would really appreciate any help offered in this community.

Thank you so much,