BlackCrow's machine learning is designed to understand your most valuable customers and help you acquire more of them.
Polar is a pre-built dashboard for commerce with out-of-the-box metrics and reports to ensure your team has the insights to get their jobs done.
Feature | Black Crow AI | Polar Analytics | Littledata |
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Identity resolution to boost audiences | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Customer data to marketing platforms | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
30 day free trial | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
Server-side tracking | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
Founder owned and led | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
Works with platforms other than Shopify | ✔️ | ||
Marketing reporting | ✔️ | ||
Proprietary attribution model | ✔️ | ||
Fully automatic, no code setup | ✔️ | ||
Automatic tracking of checkout steps | ✔️ | ||
No-code setup for Shopify Hydrogen | ✔️ |
Black Crow AI focuses on machine learning to identify valuable customers and enhance audience acquisition, offering server-side tracking and integration with various platforms. Polar Analytics provides a pre-built dashboard with proprietary attribution and marketing reporting, ensuring actionable insights. Littledata stands out with its fully automatic, no-code setup and automatic tracking of checkout steps, making it easier for users to implement and manage. While both Black Crow AI and Polar Analytics offer identity resolution and customer data integration, Littledata's ease of use and comprehensive tracking capabilities give it an edge in streamlining ecommerce operations.
Black Crow AI | Polar Analytics | Littledata | |
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Example product review | "Not all of their offerings were as helpful for a subscription brand with one product...they'll do a better job anticipating edge cases like ours in the future." | "Negative points? None so far ... Getting started was incredibly easy ... integrates smoothly with all our tools and data sources." | "We were having difficulties with accurate and consistent revenue attribution...With Littledata implemented, we now get consistent and accurate revenue attribution." |
Example support review | "Customer support is lacking, and responses are slow... not what I expected from a company of this caliber." | "Polar's customer support is also next to none... they are well worth the price we pay." | "Customer support is absolutely amazing... you can never go wrong when an app does what it says and tacks on great service!" |
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Store size | Black Crow AI | Polar Analytics | Littledata |
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50 orders / month | $500 | $400 | $39 |
500 orders / month | $500 | $400 | $149 |
5,000 orders / month | $1500 | $1150 | $349 |
20,000 orders / month | $5000 | $3500 | $799 |
For an online store with 50 orders, Black Crow AI is 27% more expensive than Polar Analytics and 1180% more than Littledata. At 500 orders, both Black Crow AI and Polar Analytics are equal, while Littledata is 70% cheaper. With 5000 orders, Black Crow AI is 30% more than Polar Analytics and 329% more than Littledata. At 20000 orders, Black Crow AI is 43% more than Polar Analytics and 526% more than Littledata.
Destination | Black Crow AI | Polar Analytics | Littledata |
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Klaviyo | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Attentive | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
Meta Ads | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
Google Ads | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
Google Analytics | ✔️ | ||
TikTok | ✔️ | ||
✔️ | |||
Segment | ✔️ |
Black Crow AI focuses on integrating with marketing platforms like Klaviyo and Attentive to enhance customer engagement and retention through personalized messaging. Polar Analytics connects with advertising platforms like Meta Ads and Google Ads, providing insights into ad performance and customer acquisition. Littledata offers a broader range of integrations, including analytics and advertising platforms, allowing for comprehensive tracking across multiple channels like Google Analytics, TikTok, and Pinterest, in addition to Klaviyo and Attentive. This diversity enables a more holistic view of customer interactions and marketing effectiveness across various touchpoints.
Feature | Black Crow AI | Polar Analytics | Littledata |
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Identity resolution | |||
Never adds new emails to your marketing list | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Uses other marketing channel cookies to boost identity | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
Docs on how an end-user can opt out for GDPR / CCPA | ✔️ | ||
Backstitches Klaviyo profile onto previous customer events | ✔️ | ||
Viewed Product trigger | |||
Tracked server-side | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
Tracked client-side | ✔️ | ||
Enriched product info (e.g. category) | ✔️ | ||
Backwards compatible with Klaviyo templates | ✔️ | ||
Added to Cart trigger | |||
Reliable via Shopify's servers | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
Enriched product info (e.g. category) | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
Backwards compatible with Klaviyo templates | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
Unreliable tracking of button clicks | ✔️ | ||
Target the whole contents of the cart | ✔️ | ||
Checkout Started trigger | |||
Direct from Shopify's servers | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Backwards compatible with Klaviyo templates | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Littledata offers unique advantages for tracking customers from Shopify to Klaviyo. Its documentation on GDPR/CCPA opt-out ensures compliance, which is crucial for data privacy. Unlike Black Crow AI and Polar Analytics, Littledata backstitches Klaviyo profiles onto previous customer events, providing a comprehensive view of customer interactions over time. This feature enhances customer insights and segmentation. Additionally, while all three solutions prevent adding new emails to marketing lists, Littledata's use of other marketing channel cookies to boost identity further strengthens its tracking capabilities, making it a more robust choice for CRM management in a Shopify Plus environment.