How Payday Affects your Shopify Store

The first thing that you need to do is to understand the Window Shopping Phase of the purchasing journey. Many customers will often shop before the payday to create a list of the products that they would like buy. If you can get onto that shopping list, you can convert them easier on your website.

So about a week before payday, try to market some of the products that you’re going to be selling. This can include promoting on email, social media and through YouTube videos.

Ensure that there is a flourish of activity around your social media accounts on the few days before and around the payday. Showcase your best products, coupons, deals and more around this time to grab the attention of your audience.

If you can increase your social media presence by increasing the number of posts that you’re doing by 50%. So if you’re publishing two updates per day on your channels, start publishing one more update per day.

The next thing you could try is to offer payday deals. It is a simple, effective way to attract customers new and old to your website on payday. You can offer something like a 10% deal that is only available for 48 hours.

Be sure that you don’t have too high a discount, or you will harm your profit margins. You can use tiered discounting, using an app like this one, that can help you reward those who buy more from your brand with bigger discounts.

Finally you can try to bring back past customers by using apps to set payday reminders. You can use apps like Ping that can help you subscribe visitors to your website who have not converting on their visit (up to 97% of your website’s visitors) and then send them a reminder of your products or their wishlist on payday. There are numerous wishlist apps that are available.

This system has been known to bring back about 20% of those who visited you before and convert them into customers. It is a simple process that can be run on automatic and you don’t lose value on your products.