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  • Welcome to Intelligems
  • Getting Started
    • Getting Started
    • Adding Intelligems Script to your Theme
    • Updating the Intelligems Script
    • Common Use Cases
      • Price Test Common Use Cases
        • The Straddle
        • The Double Down
        • The Strikethrough
        • The Great Discount Debate
        • Savings Showdown: Volume Discount vs. Price Discount
      • Shipping Test Common Use Cases
        • The Flat Fee Face Off
        • The Threshold Trials
      • Content Test Common Use Cases
        • Landing Page Testing
        • Testing a Brand New Theme
        • Testing Different Imagery
        • Testing Cart Elements
        • Testing Announcement Bar Text
        • Navigation Menu
        • Testing Checkout Blocks
      • Offer Test Common Use Cases
        • The Volume Discount Duel
        • Gifting Games
    • Best Practices
      • 🧪Test Design Best Practices
      • ✅Best Practices During a Test
    • General FAQs
  • Price Testing
    • Price Testing - Getting Started
    • Price Testing Integration Guides
      • Integration Guide using Shopify Functions
        • Step 1: Add Intelligems JavaScript
        • Step 2: Tag product prices
        • Step 3: Update your cart
        • Step 4: QA your integration, and publish your changes
      • Integration Guide using Checkout Scripts
        • Step 1: Add Intelligems JavaScript
        • Step 2: Tag product prices
        • Step 3: Add the Checkout Script
        • Step 4: Update your cart
        • Step 5: QA your integration, and publish your changes
      • Integration Guide using Duplicate Products
        • Step 1: Add Intelligems JavaScript
        • Step 2: Tag product prices
        • Step 3: Hide duplicate products from collections pages
        • Step 4: Configure duplicate products
        • Step 5: QA your integration, and publish your changes
      • Troubleshooting
        • How to Add the data-product-id and/or data-variant-id Attribute to an Element
      • Replo Page Builder
    • How to Set Up a Price Test
    • Price Test QA Checklist
    • Starting a Price Test
    • Ending a Price Test
    • Testing Prices with Subscriptions
      • Testing Prices with Recharge 2.0 or Stay.Ai
      • How to Set Up a Price Test using Duplicate Products and Recharge Subscriptions
      • How to Set Up a Price Test using Duplicate Products and Skio Subscriptions
      • Managing Duplicate Products when Redirecting to Duplicate PDPs
    • Multi-Currency Testing
    • Price Testing FAQs
  • Shipping Testing
    • Shipping Testing - Getting Started
    • How to Set Up a Shipping Test
    • Shipping Test QA Checklist
    • Starting a Shipping Test
    • Ending a Shipping Test
    • Shipping Progress Bar Integration
    • Shipping Testing FAQs
  • Content Testing
    • Content Testing - Getting Started
      • How to Set Up a Split URL Test
      • How to Set Up an Onsite Edits Test
      • How to Set Up a Template Test
      • How to Set Up a Theme Test
      • How to Set Up a Test using our JavaScript API
    • Content Test QA Checklist
    • Ending a Theme Test
    • Content Testing FAQs
  • Personalizations
    • Personalizations - Getting Started
    • Personalization Modifications
      • Offer Modifications
      • Progress Bars
      • Offers: Integrating Widgets
      • Offers: Running a Large Number of Offer Personalizations with Shopify Functions
      • Theme Personalization Precautions
    • Targeting Personalizations
    • Targeting Modes for Personalizations
    • Previewing Personalizations
    • Testing Offer Personalizations
    • Offers Limits
    • Offer Combinations
    • Scheduling Personalizations
    • Rolling Out Tests
    • Personalizations FAQs
  • General Features
    • Targeting
      • Audience Targeting
      • Currency Targeting
      • Page Targeting
      • Mutually Exclusive Experiments
      • Targeting FAQs
    • Onsite Editor
    • Image Onsite Editor
    • CSS and JavaScript Injection
  • Analytics
    • Overview
      • How orders and sessions are attributed to experiments
      • Order and revenue accounting
      • How experiment targeting affects analytics
    • Analytics FAQs
    • Metric Definitions
      • Revenue
      • Conversion Funnel
      • Profit
      • Subscriptions
    • Filters
    • Statistical Significance
    • Timeseries
    • Custom Events
      • Overview
      • CSS Selectors
      • Scoping to specific pages
      • Custom Javascript Events
      • Testing Custom Events
      • Using custom events in experiment analytics
    • How to Add Profit to Intelligems Analytics
    • How to Add Product Groups to Intelligems Analytics
    • Tagging Orders by Test Group in Shopify
    • Exporting Data
    • Data Sharing
  • Performance Optimization
    • Site Performance
    • Optimizing Your Price-Test Integration
    • Anti-Flicker Modes
    • Edgemesh
  • Integrations
    • Google Analytics 4 Integration
    • Amplitude Integration
    • Heap Integration
    • Segment Integration
    • Heatmap Integrations
      • Integrating with Microsoft Clarity
      • Integrating with Heatmap.com
      • Integrating with HotJar
    • Navidium Testing
  • Developer Resources
    • Javascript API
      • User Object
      • Price Object
      • Campaigns Object
        • campaigns.getAll()
        • campaigns.getGWP(options)
        • campaigns.setHistoryStatus(params)
    • Intelligems Theme Snippets
    • Advanced Settings
    • Cart Permalinks
    • Targeting By Customer Parameters
    • Custom Add to Cart and Order Completed Events
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  • QA'ing your Test (Before and Throughout the Test)
  • Handling External Areas that Mention Price or Shipping Rates
  • Theme Changes
  • Customer Experience
  • Monitoring Results
  • Iterate and Learn

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  1. Getting Started
  2. Best Practices

Best Practices During a Test

This article will take you through some best practices leading up to launch and while a test is live.

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QA'ing your Test (Before and Throughout the Test)

Before launching any new test, it is important to QA the test to ensure everything is working as you would expect. See our checklists below for more information on how to QA each type of test:

We also recommend doing a sweep through the site immediately after starting the test, and at least every few days during the test to ensure nothing has changed that would affect the test (after all, sites change frequently). The best way to do this is in a new private or incognito window; this will get you assigned randomly to a new test group.


Handling External Areas that Mention Price or Shipping Rates

We recommend thinking through any areas other than on your Shopify site that could create inconsistencies with the test. Where possible, we will do our best to integrate with these external sources, but in certain cases we may recommend removing these instances. Some examples include:

  • Advertisements: It is often possible to keep test groups consistent with ad prices utilizing traffic selectors during test setup. Please if you have questions on this!

  • Google Shopping: Monitor your Google Merchant Center frequently throughout the test. We will do our best to work with you to minimize issues with your Google Shopping Feed. We also recommend turning on automatic price updates in your Google Merchant Center. See for Google's documentation on this feature.

  • A few other places to think about: retargeting and newsletter emails, landing pages, affiliate marketing


Theme Changes

It is generally recommended to avoid major theme changes while a test is live. Examples include:

  • Major changes to theme code

  • Changes to text that mentions price or shipping rates (relevant if the test utilizes the find-replace function)

  • Installing or reconfiguring apps that are close to checkout (e.g. cart or upsell apps)


Customer Experience

Pay close attention to customer experience issues that arise. While issues are rare, we always recommend keeping your customer support team in the loop on tests. Additionally, we recommend equipping the team with a discount code to honor lower prices in the rare occurrence that a customer sees multiple prices (for instance, on multiple devices).


Monitoring Results

While it may take a while to start seeing significant results, we recommend checking the results in the Intelligems analytics dashboard frequently. This will help you end tests early that are materially impacting sales or profit and discover potential issues with the test.


Iterate and Learn

A/B testing is an iterative process. Use the insights gained from each test to inform future tests. Document your findings and build on what you learn to continually improve your store’s performance.

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