EcomDrama Analytics shows what your store sells, where orders come from and what the EcomDrama plugins add to it — all inside WordPress, from the orders WooCommerce already has. There is nothing to connect and no tracking code to add.
Install and activate
EcomDrama Analytics has no license of its own. It comes free with a paid license of an EcomDrama plugin that includes it — on ecomdrama.com, the plugins whose pricing card says Analytics is included. Its zip is part of that purchase: download it from My Account → Downloads on ecomdrama.com, next to the plugin you bought.
Upload it under Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin and activate it. WooCommerce must be active. There is no separate key: the license key of the plugin you bought activates Analytics too. If that key isn’t active on this site yet, add it under EcomDrama → License — its Covers line then lists EcomDrama Analytics. The reports open from EcomDrama → Analytics.
Free, trial and gift licenses don’t include Analytics. Without a license that does, EcomDrama Analytics shows a blurred preview with a way to get one; the reports, the dashboard widget and the weekly email stay locked, but the demo store is always open. A key the license server no longer accepts can always be removed with Deactivate on the same License page.
EcomDrama Analytics works on its own. Smart Cross Sell, Side Cart and Progressive Discount are optional: when one of them is installed, its tab in Plugin impact fills in; when none is, every other report still works.
The first minutes: building the order index
About a minute after activation, the plugin starts reading your past orders into a small summary table, newest first, in the background. Large stores take a few minutes; you can keep working, or leave the page, meanwhile.
While it runs, the reports show Building your reports: a live count of the orders read so far, the indexing steps, and preview tiles that switch on as more of your history is read. If the background work pauses, the screen says Resuming… and the index carries on from where it stopped by itself. When it’s done, your reports open on their own. On a large store you may also see the reports while the index is still filling in, with a banner saying the numbers are partial and how far back they go.
New, changed, refunded and deleted orders are picked up automatically within a minute after that.
Fewer than 20 orders?
Below 20 orders, percentages and comparisons say more about chance than about your store, so the reports start with a progress screen instead. Two ways forward:
- Explore the demo store — a fictional coffee shop with 12 months of orders and all three plugins at work. A green bar marks every demo page, and nothing in it touches your own data.
- Show my data anyway — opens your reports straight away. The choice is remembered for your user only.
The progress screen disappears by itself once your 20th order comes in.
Finding your way around
- Overview — net sales, orders, average order value and the revenue the plugins influenced, against the previous period.
- Plugin impact — one tab per plugin. See Reading Plugin impact.
- Products, Journeys, Sources and Customers — what sells, the path to each order, where shoppers come from, and who comes back.
- Opportunities — a few concrete suggestions, recalculated every night from your recent orders.
The bar at the top of each report sets the period, the comparison and filters. Copy link copies the exact view you are looking at, filters included.
Before you rely on the numbers
Open Settings → Data health once. It shows whether WooCommerce order attribution is on — the Sources and Journeys reports depend on it — and how many recent orders carry source data. See Data health and the order index.