Short answer: only as a number. Shopify's Live View shows how many sessions have an active cart in the last ten minutes, but not what was added, what the cart is worth or who added it.
To see each add to cart as it happens, with the product and the shopper, you need a live cart app. CartSpy shows every add to cart within seconds, one shopper at a time.
Live View (Analytics > Live View) is Shopify's real-time screen. According to Shopify's help pages it shows:
It is free, built in and good for a quick pulse, especially on a busy sales day.
Shopify's reports do count sessions that added to cart, as one step of the conversion funnel. That is a daily total, not a live view of carts.
Shopify fires an event every time a shopper adds a product to the cart. Apps can listen to it through Shopify's web pixel, with no theme code. A live cart app turns those events into a feed.
That is what CartSpy's Live View is. Each add to cart appears within seconds as a card with the product and variant, the price, the cart's running total, the shopper's city and country, their device, operating system and browser, and the traffic source that brought them. Checkouts and orders arrive in the same feed, so you can follow one shopper from the first add to the paid order.
CartSpy is a feed you look at, not an alert system: it doesn't send a notification per add to cart. For a summary you don't have to watch, there is the daily email report. When a cart is left, it moves to the abandoned list with its products (see abandoned carts before checkout). More on the feed: live cart tracking. The listing: CartSpy on the Shopify App Store (apps.shopify.com/cartspy).
Partly. Shopify's Live View has an Active carts count: the number of sessions that added an item to the cart in the last ten minutes. It does not show which product was added, the cart's contents or the shopper.
Use an app that listens to Shopify's add-to-cart event. CartSpy shows each add to cart in its Live View within seconds, with the product, variant, price, the cart's total, the shopper's location, device and traffic source.
No. CartSpy is a live feed that updates on its own while it is open, on a computer or in the Shopify mobile app, plus a daily email each morning. It does not send a push message for each add to cart.
No. CartSpy uses Shopify's web pixel, which is registered when you install the app. Your theme is not changed.
Essential is $7.99 a month and Advanced is $14.99 a month. Both include the live add-to-cart feed and a 7-day free trial.
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