
Discount Attribution: Why Last-Click Overstates Your Discount ROI
Your dashboard says the discount drove $50,000 in revenue. It didn't. Attribution tells you who gets credit — not what actually changed.
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Notes on recommendations, attribution, and growing revenue from your store.

Your dashboard says the discount drove $50,000 in revenue. It didn't. Attribution tells you who gets credit — not what actually changed.

The welcome discount is universal advice. But do discount-acquired customers become loyal — or just trained to wait for a code? The cohort math is uncomfortable.

Your discount code doesn't stay on your site. It travels to coupon aggregators, browser extensions, and Reddit — and the people who find it are often your own best customers.

A 10% discount looks cheaper than free shipping. But compare them by incremental cost instead of face value and the answer flips.

AOV and revenue-per-visitor can both go up while you quietly make less money. There's one on-site metric that can't be gamed — and almost nobody tracks it.

You don't need 20%. You need the smallest number that changes a decision — and there's a formula for the maximum discount your margins can afford.