Customer Base dashboard – KPIs and definitions (BETA)

The Customer Base dashboard gives you a customer-centric view of how your audience evolves over time, how they engage with your communication, and the value generated per customer. Unlike transaction-based reporting, every metric here gives each individual contact equal weight — so trends stay comparable across periods and you're never over-representing your most active buyers. Use this dashboard to understand how well engagement aligns with commercially active customers and how value is distributed across your base.

How the dashboard is structured

The dashboard follows your customers through four stages:

  • Growth — how your customer base is expanding or contracting
  • Lifecycle stage — where customers sit in their journey with your brand
  • Engagement — how customers interact with your communication
  • Conversion — purchasing activity viewed at the customer level
Conversion and revenue metrics in this dashboard are not attribution-based. A "reached purchasing contact" is a customer who both received at least one message through SMS or email and made at least one purchase within the same period — there's no assumed causal or temporal link between those two events. This makes the dashboard a tool for understanding the overlap between engagement and purchasing behaviour, not for measuring campaign performance directly.

Common definitions

These terms are used throughout the dashboard.

Contacts

Total number of contacts in the database as of the last day of the chosen period.

New contacts

New contacts registered during the chosen period, based on registration date.

Deleted contacts

Contacts deleted during the chosen period.

Reachable contacts

Contacts with status Active, split by channel (email and SMS).

Purchasing contacts

Unique contacts that have made at least one purchase occasion during the period.

Reached contacts

Contacts who received at least one message via email or SMS during the period.

Growth

These KPIs show how your customer base is changing in size over the selected period.

Period growth

Relative growth of the customer base during the selected period. Calculated as: (contacts on last day – contacts on first day) / contacts on first day.

Contacts first day of period

The size of your database at the start of the period.

Changes (new registrations or deletions) that happen on the first day are not included.
New contacts

Contacts registered during the chosen period, based on registration date.

Deleted contacts

Contacts deleted during the chosen period.

Total contacts last day of period

The size of your database at the end of the period.

Changes that happen on the last day are included.

Lifecycle stage

These KPIs position your contacts within a customer maturity model, showing where they sit in their relationship with your brand.

Never purchased

Contact is registered but has never made a purchase.

First-time buyers

Contact has purchased during the chosen period, but fewer times than the recurring threshold (default: one purchase).

Recurring customers

Contact has reached the purchase threshold and their last purchase is recent enough (default: at least one purchase, within 365 days).

Winback customers

Contact was previously lost or defecting but has since returned and made a purchase.

Defecting customers

Contact hasn't purchased for longer than the defecting threshold but hasn't yet reached lost status (default: 365 days).

Lost customers

Contact hasn't purchased for longer than the lost threshold (default: 545 days).

Email reachability

Share of contacts in the selected group who can currently be reached by email. Calculated as reachable contacts / total contacts, both measured at the end of the selected period.

SMS reachability

Share of contacts in the selected group who can currently be reached by SMS. Calculated as reachable contacts / total contacts, both measured at the end of the selected period.

Engagement

These KPIs reflect how your contacts interact with the messages you send them. Metrics are split by channel (email and SMS) and source (automation and manual sends).

Reached contacts is not additive across channels. A contact who received messages across multiple channels counts as one distinct contact per channel — not as multiple contacts in the total.
Reached contacts

Contacts who received at least one message during the selected period, split by channel and source.

Not additive — a contact reached across multiple channels counts as one distinct contact in each channel section.
Messages per reached contact

Average number of messages a contact receives during the selected period, split by channel and source.

Unique open rate per reached contact

The average fraction of emails a contact opens. Email only, split by source. Calculated as the average of the unique open rate per contact.

CTR per reached contact

The average fraction of emails a contact clicks. Email only, split by source. Calculated as the average of the unique click-through rate (CTR) per contact.

Conversion

These KPIs show purchasing activity among your reached contacts. This section is not split by channel or source — because no attribution logic is applied, splitting by channel would risk duplicating revenue figures.

Reached contacts

Contacts who received at least one message during the selected period.

This total is less than or equal to the sum of reached contacts across all individual channel and source breakdowns.
Reached purchasing contacts

Contacts who both received at least one message and made at least one purchase during the selected period.

No attribution logic is applied — a purchase may have occurred before the communication. Only receipts with at least one purchased item are counted; receipts containing only returns are excluded.
Contact conversion rate

The share of reached contacts who made a purchase. Each contact is either a buyer (100%) or not (0%) — this metric tells you how many of your reached contacts converted.

Purchase frequency

Average number of purchases per reached purchasing contact during the period.

Contact average purchase value

Average purchase value per contact, calculated as the average of (purchase amount / number of purchases) per contact. This is an intentional average of averages, since the unit of analysis is the customer.

Purchase value per reached purchasing contact

Average total revenue per converting customer. Calculated as total purchase amount from reached contacts / number of distinct reached purchasing contacts.

Purchase value from reached contacts

Total revenue generated from engaged customers. This is a total value metric, not normalized per contact. It pairs naturally with reached contacts and contact conversion rate.

Coming soon

The following metrics are not included in the current beta version of the Customer Base dashboard but are planned for a future release.

Retention rate

The share of purchasing contacts from one period who returned to purchase in the following period.

CLV

Customer lifetime value — the average customer lifetime value for your customer base, with the ability to filter by different dimensions.

Highest recruitment

Top-performing periods or stores by new contact acquisition.

Recruitment rate

The rate at which new contacts are being added to the database.

Actively reachable

Share of contacts who are currently reachable across at least one active channel.

Engagement rate

Proportion of reachable contacts who actively engage with communication during the period.

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