Ka-ching! Know exactly when your website visitors make a purchase

June 12th, 2007
By Noah (observations, resources)

Or view a page, or create a new account, or are referred by another website. This is all pretty common stuff you can get from most any stats package. However, Reinvigorate.net has just released Snoop–a desktop app that lets you hook into your Reinvigorate web stats and get live updates on what your users are doing on your site.

Snoop Mac

If you’re reading this, a “ding” sound just played in my office.

Fun to play with
First off, I love the concept and have seen other packages that play a “ding” sound whenever someone visits your site. But, to be able to hear a certain sound when someone makes a purchase or becomes a new user is quite fun. You can pick between 6 different alerts that will each play a different sound. The display will show you the page the user is on, where they came from, even if they made a comment on your blog. The app also incorporates the “name tag” functionality of Reinvigorate, so you can see the user’s name, too, if you have it set up.

Ringing in my ears
Of course, if you have a heavy traffic site, the last thing you want is to hear a volley of dings and swooshes every other second. However, you can turn on and off individual sounds for different events. So, for example, you could set it up to only play the “ka-ching” sound when you make a sale and nothing else. That’s a sound that doesn’t get old very fast!

Improvements
Now that I’ve had a chance to play around with this new toy, I’ve seen a few areas that would make it even better. For one, I’d love to be able to set up my own custom events and attached custom sounds to them. For example, a gunshot ricochet sound if a user “bounces” after one pageview, an alert for referals from specific domains, or when a certain form is submitted.

Also, the ability to monitor more than one site at the same time. I’ve noticed I can run multiple instances of the app at once, but that gets cluttered fast.

I’m sure this app won’t be for everyone. But, sometimes it’s kinda nice to have something like this running in the background. Hearing the occasional “ka-ching” is music to the ears of any budding web entrepreneur.



One Response

  1. Sunday, November 9, 2008

     mythus

    As welcome as flowers in May


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