E-commerce KPI Scorecard Playbook

E-commerce KPI Scorecard Playbook

Core commerce

Traffic

  • Site sessions

Conversion

  • Conversion rate - % of sessions that purchase

Order economics

  • Average order value (AOV) - revenue per order

Revenue identity

  • Revenue - sessions x conversion x AOV

Digital marketing

Efficiency

  • Paid ROAS - revenue from paid ads / ad spend
  • Blended ROAS - total revenue / total paid spend

Unit economics

  • CAC - customer acquisition cost vs LTV multiple

Feed quality

  • Feed health score - 0 to 100 for product data quality

Retention and LTV

Repeat behavior

  • Repeat purchase rate - % of customers with 2+ orders

Email contribution

  • Email revenue share - % of revenue from email
  • Unsubscribe rate - % of list unsubscribing per send

Payback

  • LTV and payback period - months to recover CAC

Cadence - weekly

Weekly business review

  • Traffic
  • Conversion
  • AOV
  • Approval rate
  • Chargebacks
  • On-time ship %
  • WISMO per 1k

Payments and risk

Payments

  • Approval rate - % of attempted payments approved

Disputes

  • Chargeback rate - % of orders that become chargebacks

Fraud

  • Fraud rate - % of orders flagged or rejected for risk

Refunds

  • Refund rate - % of orders refunded

Operations and CX

Fulfillment reliability

  • On-time ship % - orders shipped on or before promise date

Speed

  • Average ship time - order to label time in hours

Support load

  • WISMO per 1k orders - Where Is My Order contacts per 1,000

Returns

  • Return rate - % of orders returned

Marketplace

Visibility

  • Buy Box share - % of eligible detail page wins

Quality

  • Order Defect Rate (ODR) - Amazon ODR %

SLA

  • Late shipment rate - % of orders shipped late

Volume

  • GMV - gross merchandise value

Cadence - monthly and owners

Monthly review

  • ROAS
  • CAC
  • Repeat rate
  • Returns
  • Marketplace health

Owners

  • Marketing
  • Marketplace
  • Operations
  • Risk
  • CX
  • Analytics