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Everything you need to know about optimizing your profits through testing product prices, shipping rates, discount offers, and more.

Product Updates - March 18, 2026
Recent feature releases including the brand new Visual Editor, checkout upsell analytics, Sitewide Analytics Conversion page, and more.
Shane Roach

5 Experiments Drink and Electrolyte Brands Should Run
Electrolyte and drink brands have a unique position in ecommerce. Your customers need what you sell on a predictable schedule. They sweat, they workout, they get dehydrated. Then they need more.
Victor Paytuvi

5 Experiments Homegoods Brands Should Run
Homegoods is a strange category. You're selling $15 candles and $1,500 sofas in the same store. Some purchases are impulsive. Others take months of consideration and a measuring tape.
Victor Paytuvi

5 Experiments Jewelry Brands Should Run
Jewelry is high stakes. Customers take their time. They're often buying for someone else. And when the price tag climbs, trust becomes everything.
Victor Paytuvi

What Should I Offer at Checkout to Improve Profit?
You've done the hard part. The customer found your store, browsed your products, and added something to their cart. Now they're at checkout.
Victor Paytuvi

Do I need a separate app for quantity breaks if I use Intelligems?
Quantity break discounts are one of the simpler ways to nudge profit per visitor upward. Show customers a better deal for buying more units, and some of them will.
Victor Paytuvi

How can I improve my PDP design?
How to design the optimal PDP, built on best practices and results from thousands of customer tests.
Victor Paytuvi

What Experiments Should a 1-5M Brand Run First?
You've gotten past the early struggles. Revenue is real. Customers are coming back. But you're also acutely aware of how tight the margins are.
Victor Paytuvi

Product Updates - February 26, 2026
Recent feature releases including Get Inspired page, smart test recommendations, custom metrics and more.
Shane Roach

How a Growth Manager Tests with Intelligems
Victor Paytuvi

5 Experiments Petcare Brands Should Run
Pet owners spend differently than almost any other consumer group. They'll clip coupons for themselves and then drop $80 on premium dog food without blinking. The emotional connection changes everything.
Victor Paytuvi

How Does a Retention Manager Test with Intelligems?
What discount depth actually drives a second purchase without creating dependency? Does your subscription offer cannibalize one-time buyers?
Victor Paytuvi

How Should a Solo Founder Approach A/B Testing
You don't need a testing program. You need to learn how to read your data for signals that point to high-leverage opportunities.
Victor Paytuvi

Product Updates - February 6, 2026
Recent feature releases including Klaviyo integration, Share Test Results, and more.
Shane Roach

How Do I Prepare My Store for Valentine's Day?
Your Valentine's shoppers aren't buying for themselves. That changes everything.
Victor Paytuvi

5 Experiments Food and Snack Brands Should Run
Why perishability is your biggest challenge and your biggest advantage
Victor Paytuvi

How to Increase My Revenue for My Shopify Store
You want more revenue. Every Shopify store owner does. And there's no shortage of advice telling you to run flash sales, add upsells, or spend more on ads.
Victor Paytuvi

5 Experiments Fashion Brands Should Run
Fashion is one of the most data-rich categories in ecommerce. Every collection launch, every seasonal transition, every size run generates signals about what your customers actually value.
Victor Paytuvi

Does A/B Testing Hurt Your Meta Ads?
Does A/B testing hurt your Meta Ads performance? How to investigate CPC spikes during tests.
Victor Paytuvi

How Often Should I Run Promotions?
How often should I run sales and promotions? Finding the right frequency without training customers to wait.
Victor Paytuvi

Should I Upsell at Checkout?
Should I add upsells at checkout? When checkout upsells help vs hurt your conversion rate.
Victor Paytuvi

Your Ads Get Clicks But Your Site Doesn't Convert
Why your ads get clicks but your site doesn't convert. The disconnect between ad creative and landing page experience.
Victor Paytuvi

5 Experiments High-Ticket Brands Should Run
The impulse-purchase playbook won't work here. Your customers are researching, comparing, and deliberating.
Victor Paytuvi

How to Increase My AOV for My Shopify Store
Higher AOV means more revenue from existing traffic and a path to profitability that doesn't depend on acquiring new customers.
Victor Paytuvi

5 Experiments Supplement Brands Should Run
Supplements are built for repeat purchases. Customers consume, replenish, and return—month after month.
Victor Paytuvi

How to Increase The Conversion Rate of a Shopify Store
You want more visitors to buy. That's a reasonable goal, and conversion rate feels like the obvious metric to watch. More conversions means you're winning, right?
Victor Paytuvi

How Should I Price New Product Launches?
The conventional wisdom says new products need discounts to overcome the lack of reviews and social proof. But that wisdom misses something: new products also have something established products don't. Scarcity. Novelty. The excitement of being first.
Victor Paytuvi

How to Increase My Profits for My Shopify Store
You're asking the right question. Revenue gets the attention, but profit pays the bills.
Victor Paytuvi

5 Experiments Beauty Brands Should Run
Your customers don't just buy products. They build routines. They discover new favorites. They gift to friends. And they come back when they run out.
Victor Paytuvi

Where Should I Send Paid Traffic?
Paid visitors arrive with expectations set by your ad
Victor Paytuvi

When Can I End My A/B Test?
Victor Paytuvi

How Should I Price Subscription Plans?
Small enough to protect margins. Big enough to convert.
Victor Paytuvi

What Should I Do After I Find a Winning A/B Test?
Different audiences respond differently to the same experience, and treating them all the same ignores what your data is telling you.
Victor Paytuvi

How Do I Maximize Sales Before Christmas?
The question isn't "what CAN I do?" It's "what should I prioritize for MY business?" Your data already tells you.
Victor Paytuvi

Did Tariffs and Economic Uncertainty Ruin BFCM?
The numbers are in and NO, tariffs, margin pressures, and economic uncertainty did not ruin the BFCM party. Let me explain.
Alex McEachern

How Long Should I Run My A/B Test?
The real question isn't "when is my test done?" It's "how confident do I need to be for THIS decision?"
Victor Paytuvi

How Do I Reduce Checkout Abandonment?
Testing different checkout content is often the fastest path to better conversion.
Andy Costes

Should I Offer Gift with Purchase?
Does it actually drive more profit than a simple discount? For your specific customers, with your specific products, at your specific margins?
Victor Paytuvi

How Do I Find What to Test?
Four numbers tell you where you are today and where your biggest opportunities might be hiding.
Victor Paytuvi

Intelligems Acquires Because
Intelligems has acquired the Because platform.
Drew Marconi

Should I Offer Free Shipping?
Free shipping creates a cost that has to come from somewhere. Whether the trade-offs work in your favor depends on how you implement it.
Victor Paytuvi

NEW: Introducing Intelligems Sitewide Analytics
We built Sitewide Analytics to replace the disconnected dashboards and manual exports you've been piecing together
Victor Paytuvi

Should I Offer Tiered Discounts or Flat Discounts?
Flat discounts are simple. Tiered discounts reward cart building. Which structure drives more profit per visitor for YOUR business?
Victor Paytuvi

Where Should I Start with Intelligems?
What test gives you the fastest path to real results?
Victor Paytuvi

NEW: Introducing Checkout Testing
We built Checkout Testing to help you unlock one of the most overlooked profit levers in your business
Victor Paytuvi

How Do I Optimize My Checkout?
You optimized your product pages. You improved your cart. But your checkout?
Victor Paytuvi

Checkout Personalizations - Where Should I Start?
Checkout Personalizations - Where Should I Start? | Intelligems
Victor Paytuvi

Will Raising Prices Hurt My Sales?
Sometimes fewer customers at higher margins beats more customers at lower margins.
Victor Paytuvi

Can I Test Prices on All My Products at Once?
The answer: it depends on what you want to learn.
Victor Paytuvi

Where Should I Start with Price Testing?
Your first test should teach you something fast and meaningful.
Victor Paytuvi

How Much Should I Discount My Products?
The minimum effective discount is the smallest incentive that drives your desired outcome.
Victor Paytuvi

Should I Use Percentage Off or Dollar Off?
How do you know which one will work for your specific products and customers?
Victor Paytuvi

How Much Can I Charge for Shipping?
Can your customers absorb more of the actual shipping cost?
Victor Paytuvi

How Do I Know If My Prices Are Right?
Most brands set prices using costs, competitors, and gut feeling. But there's a way to know for certain what customers will pay
Victor Paytuvi

What Should My Free Shipping Threshold Be?
Set your free shipping threshold too low and you leave money on the table. Set it too high and customers walk away. Here’s how to find the sweet spot.
Victor Paytuvi

Intelligems Adds Third Office in Boston
Intelligems Adds Third Office in Boston
Adam Kitain

How to Design Your Ecommerce Product Offer: The Ultimate Guide for Higher Sales
How to Design Your Ecommerce Product Offer for Sales
Adam Kitain

Firework x Intelligems - test the power of video commerce!
Get 2 Months Free of Firework’s growth plan to unlock video commerce for your Shopify brand (plus, test the rollout using Intelligems!)
Sam Duncan

Intelligems Raises $9M to Fuel the Profit Growth Platform for Ecommerce Brands
Drew Marconi

We Built a Tariff Passthrough App
We built a new app to make it easy for you to break out and pass tariff charges transparently in cart and checkout. No need to absorb costs or leave customers in the dark—just clarity and control.
Adam Kitain

5 Ways to Protect Your Profits If (and When) US Tariffs Hit
Discover what new US tariffs could mean for ecommerce brands and explore five proven strategies to shield your bottom line against them.
Drew Marconi

2024 in Review: Doubling the team and 7x-ing customers served
Everything we’re celebrating this year and what’s in store for 2025.
Drew Marconi

Intelligems vs. VWO: Which Testing Tool Is the Best Fit for Your Brand?
Deciding between VWO and Intelligems? This guide breaks down how each testing tool stacks up — so you can find the best fit for your brand’s goals.
Sam Duncan

Intelligems vs. Visually Competitor Analysis: Which Testing Tool Maximizes Profit for Shopify Brands?
Intelligems vs. Visually Competitor Analysis: Which Testing Tool Maximizes Profit for Shopify Brands?
Sam Duncan

Optimize your profits with a robust testing roadmap
Optimize your profits with a robust testing roadmap
Drew Marconi

Intelligems vs. ABConvert: Which profit optimization solution is right for you?
Choosing between ABConvert and Intelligems? Here are the key differences so you can decide which platform best aligns with your business goals.
Sam Duncan

4 Ways to Boost Shopify Profits with Copy and Heading Testing
If you’re not optimizing your Shopify store’s copy and headings, you’re missing out on potential profit.
Drew Marconi

4 Ways to Boost Shopify Profits with Landing Page Testing
Here are 4 powerful ways to optimize your Shopify landing pages for profit, complete with results and examples from real Intelligems customers.
Drew Marconi

The Ultimate Guide to A/B Testing During the Holidays
Discover how to maximize Shopify profits during a high-stakes shopping period with strategic holiday A/B testing.
Drew Marconi

Maximize Profits For Your Shopify Store with Intelligems Personalizations
Personalized content, offers, and prices to drive conversions and repeat purchases — all without a single line of code.
Drew Marconi
Expert Guide: Why raising prices (a little bit) is the fastest path to increased profitability
A quick how-to guide on how to test your prices with Intelligems to boost profitibility
Shane Rostad

Intelligems Profit Optimization: Test Every Component of Your Pricing Model to Drive Shopify Profits
Intelligems Profit Optimization is the only profit optimization tool built for Shopify with easy-to-use, profit-focused analytics.
Drew Marconi
Intelligems vs. Shoplift: Which Shopify testing platform is right for you?
Whether Shoplift or Intelligems is a better fit for you depends on your requirements and goals. Here’s a breakdown so you can pick the platform that’s best for your business.
Sam Duncan

Expert Guide: Why You Should Always Start With Offer Testing
Thoughts from an industry expert on how to optimize your store's profits through offer strategy
Shane Rostad

Why Intelligems is the best Google Optimize replacement for Shopify brands
Discover what to look for in your Google Optimize replacement, the best alternatives for Shopify brands, and why Intelligems’ affordable content testing leads the pack.
Drew Marconi

Expert Guide: How to determine if your free shipping threshold is hurting your conversion
Unlocking Revenue Potential: A Data-Driven Approach to Free Shipping Threshold Optimization
Anthony Morgan

Checkout Extensibility and AB Testing on your Shopify Store: What to Know
A Comprehensive Guide on a Seamless Transition to Checkout Extensibility & The Impact on A/B Testing
Drew Marconi

Optimize Profits From Your Shopify Store with Content Testing
A/B test content across your Shopify store to see what copy, images, and design drive the most profit.
Drew Marconi

Building a Consistent Testing Program for your E-Commerce Site
A Guide to Establishing a Reliable AB Testing Framework for Consistent Growth
Drew Marconi
Easy to Implement Tests to Prepare Your Store for Black Friday Success
We partnered with The Oddit to bring you 5 proven tests for ensuring your best season ever, plus accompanying design changes
Sam Duncan

10 Tests to Run With Intelligems Testing Suite
The most impactful tests using Intelligems suite of tools.
Drew Marconi

Intelligems x Peel
Run Tests, Deep-Dive Data, Win More Repeat Purchases
Sam Duncan

A Winning Strategy in a Changing E-Commerce Landscape
If you’re a DTC business, you need to be strategically testing your prices.
Adam Kitain

Getting Scientific with Pricing
How OpenStore leverages Intelligems to optimize profit across its portfolio
Ben Ribovich

Preparing Early for Black Friday / Cyber Monday
Why you should be optimizing your discount strategy now.
Drew Marconi

Debunking the Myth of the Perfect Price
Why you need an iterative testing strategy
Drew Marconi

Empowering Business Intelligence with Zenlytic
See how Zenlytic, a leader in data management and insights, revolutionizes business intelligence practices and pairs perfectly with Intelligems.
Drew Marconi

The Only Metric You Need When A/B Testing
See why profit per site visitor is the ultimate metric to measure success in pricing strategies and A/B tests.
Adam Kitain

Gift with Purchase: The Gift that Keeps on Giving
GWPs can be one of the most valuable discount tools for e-commerce brands when used correctly. Let's dig into why.
Adam Kitain

Why Use Intelligems with Klaviyo
See how Intelligems Campaigns helps you strategically run your tests in Klaviyo to ensure you're optimizing your profits.
Adam Kitain

Create More Effective Discounts Using Intelligems Campaigns
With Intelligems Campaigns, you can create a customized promotion, and expand it using various other tools to ensure your discount is the best it can be.
Drew Marconi

5 CRO Experiments to Run with the Intelligems Content Testing Tool
Intelligems' new content testing feature helps you drive extra conversions, revenue, and profit.
Drew Marconi

E-commerce / Split Testing Glossary
All the lingo you need to know in order to run a successful e-commerce business.
Drew Marconi

Why Every Store Should Price Like Uber
Discover why data-driven, dynamic pricing is crucial for e-commerce businesses in the 21st-century market to maximize profits and satisfy customers.
Adam Kitain

CRO Conference Recap: Testing Pricing, Shipping Rates, and Discounts
In case you didn’t have time to tune in to last week’s CRO conference to hear co-founder, Drew Marconi, speak, here are some key takeaways.
Drew Marconi

Why You Should Be Using Intelligems' New Content Testing Feature
Intelligems' new content testing feature lets you test imagery and copy, landing pages, Shopify themes, and more for an affordable price.
Drew Marconi

How Lowering Your Prices Could Make You More Money
You may be surprised to learn that lowering your price might actually help you yield higher profits.
Adam Kitain

Debutify Podcast: Pricing Strategies with Drew Marconi
See what Intelligems co-founder, Drew Marconi, has to say about strategic pricing in the e-commerce world today.
Georgia Paynter

With Google Optimize Leaving, How Can Shopify Stores Keep A/B Testing?
Use Intelligems' new content testing feature to A/B test your imagery, copy, theme, landing pages, and more.
Drew Marconi

Improvements to Intelligems JavaScript Performance
Intelligems ongoing improvements to optimize JavaScript performance
Christian Dalton

What’s Next at Intelligems
Intelligems has raised $4.2M to help e-commerce companies improve their profits
Drew Marconi

Tips to optimize your pricing/discounts for Cyber Monday
Our suggestions to ensure your BFCM discounting strategy sets your brand up for success!
Sam Duncan

September Podcast round-up
Find us in conversation with some of our favorite e-commerce podcasters to learn more about price testing, industry insights, and more.
Sam Duncan

What is A/B Testing?
Everything you need to know about A/B Testing
Drew Marconi

Experimentation is HARD!
How to accurately interpret your data
Drew Marconi

Split Traffic
Why you should be splitting traffic when A/B testing
Drew Marconi

Let's talk pricing - on a podcast!
Intelligems talks price testing on eCommerce Fuel Podcast
Drew Marconi

Discounting Playbook
How to win customers and influence people - a discounting playbook
Drew Marconi

Talking Price Testing on the EcomCrew Podcast
Price Testing!
Drew Marconi

Price Elasticity
Price Elasticity - and how to find it through Price AB Testing
Drew Marconi

Ensure good customer experience while price testing
5 best practices to ensure a good customer experience while price testing
Drew Marconi


