
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.
Elevar ensures that 100% of your conversions are tracked and delivered to your marketing channels using Google Tag Manager and server-side tracking. Since the company was acquired by Buxton (now Audiense) the product has been merged into a wider analytics and segmentation tool.
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Talk to us| Feature | Polar Analytics | Elevar | Littledata |
|---|---|---|---|
| Customer data to marketing platforms | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Identity resolution to boost audiences | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Founder owned and led | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Direct from Shopify's servers | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Marketing reporting | ✔️ | ||
| Proprietary attribution model | ✔️ | ||
| Via server-side Google Tag Manager | ✔️ | ||
| 30 day free trial | ✔️ | ||
| Fully automatic, no code setup | ✔️ | ||
| Natively supports Shopify Markets | ✔️ | ||
| Automatic tracking of checkout steps | ✔️ |
Polar Analytics offers pre-built dashboards and proprietary attribution, focusing on marketing insights. Elevar emphasizes server-side tracking and ensures complete conversion tracking via Google Tag Manager. Littledata stands out with its 30-day free trial, fully automatic no-code setup, and automatic tracking of checkout steps, providing a more user-friendly experience. While both Polar and Elevar have strong features, Littledata's ease of use and trial period may appeal more to ecommerce managers seeking quick implementation and comprehensive tracking.
| Polar Analytics | Elevar | Littledata | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Example product review | "Negative points? None so far ... Getting started was incredibly easy ... integrates smoothly with all our tools and data sources." | "They continue to charge you after uninstalling and cancelling your plan...made absolutely 0 impact to my tracking." | "We were having difficulties with accurate and consistent revenue attribution...With Littledata implemented, we now get consistent and accurate revenue attribution." |
| Example support review | "Polar's customer support is also next to none... they are well worth the price we pay." | "Awful support. I am now $700 in charges without even using the stupid thing because it made absolutely 0 impact." | "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 | Polar Analytics | Elevar | Littledata |
|---|---|---|---|
| 50 orders / month | $400 | $200 | $39 |
| 500 orders / month | $720 | $200 | $199 |
| 5,000 orders / month | $1020 | $450 | $449 |
| 20,000 orders / month | $2770 | $850 | $1390 |
For an online store with 50 orders, Polar Analytics is 100% more expensive than Elevar and 923% more than Littledata. At 500 orders, Polar and Elevar are equal, while Littledata is 79% cheaper than both. With 5000 orders, Polar is 127% more than Elevar and 193% more than Littledata. At 20000 orders, Polar is 226% more than Elevar and 247% more than Littledata, while Elevar is 6% more expensive than Littledata.
| Destination | Polar Analytics | Elevar | Littledata |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meta Ads | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Google Ads | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Klaviyo | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| TikTok | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Google Analytics | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| ✔️ | ✔️ | ||
| Attentive | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Segment | ✔️ |
Polar Analytics focuses on integrating data from various advertising platforms like Meta Ads, Google Ads, Klaviyo, and TikTok, providing a centralized view for performance analysis. Elevar offers a broader range of data destinations, including Google Analytics and additional marketing platforms like Pinterest and Attentive, enhancing tracking capabilities across multiple channels. Littledata also supports a wide array of destinations, including Segment, which allows for advanced data integration and customer segmentation. The main difference lies in the specific platforms each solution integrates with and their emphasis on analytics versus marketing automation.
| Feature | Polar Analytics | Elevar | Littledata |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||
| Backwards compatible with Klaviyo templates | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Tracked server-side | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Tracked client-side | ✔️ | ||
| Enriched product info (e.g. category) | ✔️ | ||
| 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 stands out for its comprehensive approach to customer tracking in Klaviyo. Unlike Polar Analytics, it not only prevents adding new emails to your marketing list and utilizes cookies from other channels but also backstitches Klaviyo profiles onto previous customer events, providing a complete customer journey view. Compared to Elevar, while both offer GDPR/CCPA opt-out documentation and prevent new email additions, Littledata's unique ability to integrate historical data enhances customer insights and engagement strategies, making it a more robust solution for tracking and understanding customer behavior.
| Feature | Polar Analytics | Elevar | Littledata |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Ads Conversions | |||
| Real-time tracking of Enhanced Conversions | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Tracked direct from Shopify's servers | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| New vs Returning customer conversions | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Fully automatic setup | ✔️ | ||
| Feature | Polar Analytics | Elevar | Littledata |
|---|---|---|---|
| Key benefits | |||
| Boost to Event Match Quality Score | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| 100% accurate revenue in Meta | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Pre-purchase audiences based on first-party data | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Fully automatic setup | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Target subscriptions vs one-time purchases | ✔️ | ||
| AddToCart | |||
| Via Conversions API | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| InitiateCheckout | |||
| Via Conversions API | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Includes all checkout steps | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Purchase | |||
| Via Conversions API | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Includes post-purchase upsells | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Filters to exclude orders from some channels | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| New vs Returning customer conversions | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Includes recurring orders | ✔️ | ||
