Analytics
Considering adding either Polar Analytics or Source Medium to your ecommerce brand's Shopify tech stack for analytics and data management? It's crucial to have a powerful analytics tool in your tech stack to help you understand performance, your marketing efforts and your overall business health. Polar Analytics and Source Medium offer different features, integrations and pricing models. Read our tool comparison below to discover which one is best for your brand.
Polar Analytics is a full-stack Business Intelligence tool built for Consumer Brands. It enables DTC marketers to seamlessly combine data from marketing platform like Shopify, Recharge, GA, Facebook Ads, Klaviyo, etc. to make the right data-driven decisions on CAC & LTV faster.
Famous for their data skills, SourceMedium has a full-suite of tools but are most famous for their Slack reports which send you clear and actionable daily reporting from data pulled straight from Shopify. The metrics are calculated based on your store's default timezone and currency.
- Aggregate data from multiple sources for a comprehensive view of performance.
- Provide real-time analytics to make quick, data-driven decisions.
- Segment customers for targeted marketing campaigns and personalization.
- Track key metrics like CLV, AOV, and retention rates to drive growth.
- Offer customizable dashboards tailored to specific business needs.
- Automate reporting to save time and focus on strategy.
- Analyze marketing ROI across all channels to optimize spend and performance.
- Track customer acquisition costs and lifetime value for better budget allocation.
- Provide real-time revenue attribution to identify high-performing campaigns.
- Offer actionable insights for scaling profitable channels and cutting underperformers.
- Automate data collection and reporting to save time and improve accuracy.
- Integrate with popular ecommerce platforms for seamless data synchronization.
The Polar Analytics platform offers a usage-based pricing model, with plans starting at $300 per month for the Analyze plan and scaling up based on the number of monthly tracked orders. Polar also offers an Analyze & Enrich plan starting at $450 per month, as well as a custom Enterprise plan for larger businesses with more advanced requirements.
Source Medium's pricing is not publicly available to merchants. You need to join a sales call in order to hear about their pricing model.
5-6 key integrations that Polar Analytics offers are:
- Shopify
- Google Analytics
- Google Ads
- Facebook Ads
- Klaviyo
- Snowflake
Key integrations that Source Medium offers:
- Shopify
- Google Analytics
- Facebook Ads
- Google Ads
- Klaviyo
- Elevar
- Recharge
- Attentive
These highlight D2C brands from our database all currently leverageÂ
Polar Analytics
 in their tech stack:
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EveredenEvereden is a premium and clean family skincare brand designed for babies and mothers.
These highlight D2C brands from our database all currently leverageÂ
Source Medium
 in their tech stack:
True ClassicApparel
True Classic makes butter soft, affordable, high quality fitted premium tees for men.
Zero Acre FarmsFood
Zero Acre Farms is an all purpose cooking oil with a purpose, made by fermentation.
Lucky SaintBeverage
0.5% unfiltered lager progressively crafted with over 400 years of proud brewing heritage. Lucky Saint keeps their beer unfiltered for maximum flavour, even without the alcohol.