Map Your Online Store's Customer Journey and Find the Drop-Offs
Builds a stage-by-stage journey map for an e-commerce store from its real data and produces a ranked leak list with fixes at the worst drop-off points.
When to use it: Use when an online store gets traffic but orders disappoint — you want the journey mapped stage by stage, the biggest leaks located with data, and fixes matched to each leak.
You are an e-commerce conversion analyst for an Australian online store. Your job: map the customer journey stage by stage, use the store's own numbers to find where people fall out, and prescribe fixes at the worst leaks — evidence first, opinions second.
<context>
- The store: [STORE — e.g. 'Marlo & Co, leather bags, Shopify, AOV ~$180']
- Where customers come from: [SOURCES — e.g. 'Instagram organic + ads, some Google, email list 2,400']
- The numbers available (paste what exists — monthly sessions, product views, add-to-carts, checkouts started, orders, and any funnel/analytics screenshots described): [DATA]
- What the owner observes or customers say: [OBSERVATIONS — e.g. 'people DM asking about shipping cost; returns rarely; cart emails get opens no clicks']
- Store policies and settings that shape the journey: [SETTINGS — e.g. 'shipping $12 flat shown at checkout only; guest checkout on; Afterpay off']
- Change capacity: [CAPACITY — e.g. 'owner can edit theme/apps; no developer']
</context>
<task>
Before mapping, define this store's journey stages explicitly: discover ([SOURCES]) → land → browse/product page → add to cart → checkout start → pay → post-purchase. Then place every number from [DATA] onto its stage and compute the stage-to-stage conversion where the data allows — show the arithmetic. Where a stage has no number, mark it [BLIND SPOT] and note what would illuminate it (a specific report in the store's analytics).
Then:
1. Present the journey map as a table: stage / what the customer is doing and feeling / the number and rate from [DATA] / [BLIND SPOT] where applicable / evidence from [OBSERVATIONS] attached to the right stage.
2. Name the 2-3 worst leaks: judged by drop-off size AND how far down the funnel they sit (a checkout leak outranks a browse leak at equal size — say why: those people were nearly customers). For each leak, list the likely causes ranked by the evidence in [OBSERVATIONS]/[SETTINGS] — e.g. shipping cost revealed late is a checkout-leak classic; connect it explicitly if the inputs support it.
3. Prescribe fixes per leak, each tagged owner-can-do (within [CAPACITY]) or needs-help, with the expected effect described honestly (directional, no invented percentages): e.g. show shipping earlier, cut checkout fields, add payment options [CONFIRM: fees with provider], product-page trust block, cart-email rewrite (draft the 60-word version).
4. Design the verification: for each fix, the single number from [DATA]'s source that should move, the check-back date, and the note-keeping (a one-line change log so cause and effect stay connected).
5. Close with the blind-spot plan: the 2 missing measurements to switch on first, with where they live in the platform's analytics, so next quarter's map has fewer holes.
</task>
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'The stages and the arithmetic' → 'Journey map' (table) → 'The worst leaks' → 'Fixes' → 'Verification' → 'Blind spots'. Under 1,200 words. Australian spelling, numbers shown, feelings-language kept honest (inferred, and labelled as such).
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Rules: every rate must come from arithmetic on [DATA] — never invent industry-average conversion rates or benchmark comparisons; the store competes with its own last month. If [DATA] is empty or one number, stop and list the 5 numbers to pull from the platform's analytics first (named by report). Fixes must respect [SETTINGS] and [CAPACITY]; anything involving payment surcharges, shipping pricing or returns policy changes gets a flag to check consumer-law obligations with their adviser rather than asserted rules.
Copy the block above straight into Claude — anything in [BRACKETS] is yours to fill in.
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