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Your WooCommerce reports are stuck in wp-admin
Connect with a read only key you create in your own admin. Papercrane's AI agent joins your store with Stripe, PayPal, and QuickBooks, then builds a hosted dashboard you share with a link, not a login.
Connect in about a minute. Free to connect and ask. Paid plans start when you publish a dashboard. See pricing
The wp-admin ceiling
A login for every number
Your accountant needs the monthly totals, your partner wants top sellers, the agency asks how the coupon did. Each of them needs a WordPress user or a PDF you remember to send.
Numbers you double check
Analytics keeps its own lookup tables, and when they drift you get an Analytics tab that disagrees with your own order list. The official fix is clearing caches and reimporting history, and sometimes it doesn't take.
Every gap is another plugin
Profit needs one plugin, emailed reports another, better charts a third. Each adds its own bill, its own database tables, and its own weight to an admin that is already slow.
Nothing new inside your WordPress
Every reporting fix for WooCommerce wants to live in your WordPress. Papercrane works from the outside: you create a read only store key in your own admin, paste it in, and your site keeps doing its one job.
Dashboards read from your store with the key you made, refresh on schedule, and live on hosted pages outside your site. Revoke the key in your admin any time.
Ask what the Analytics tab can't answer
What did the store net last month after refunds and processor fees?
Which coupons bring in first time buyers, and which just discount people who were already buying?
Who are my top 50 customers by lifetime spend, and what did they buy first?
Which product variations get refunded most often?
Did the last Klaviyo campaign actually sell anything?
How did both stores do this month, side by side?
Every answer comes back as a chart on a live dashboard, not a CSV you rebuild next month.
1. Create a read only key in your admin
2. Paste it into Papercrane
3. Ask a question
4. The agent queries, joins, and builds a hosted dashboard
Read access only, to the store data you already have. Revoke the key in your admin any time.
Three ways to get a number out of your store
| The job | The Analytics tab | A reporting plugin | WooCommerce + Papercrane |
|---|---|---|---|
| Answer a question the built in reports don't cover | Fixed reports, fixed fields | Only if the plugin thought of it first | Ask the question; the agent builds the chart |
| Show your accountant the month | A WordPress user, or a PDF you email | Scheduled PDF emails | A link to a live dashboard |
| See profit, not just sales | Sales, refunds, and taxes only | Margins if you key costs into WordPress | Joins Stripe, PayPal, and QuickBooks |
| What it adds to your site | Heavy queries on your own database | More tables, jobs, and updates | Nothing installed on your site |
| What it costs | Free with your store | $25 to $500 a month, priced by your order count | Free to connect and ask; flat paid plans, not priced by orders |
| When a number looks wrong | Clear caches, reimport history | File a support ticket | Errors route back to the agent, which fixes the dashboard |
The monthly handoff
A parts store owner closes the month with revenue, refunds, processor fees, and costs from QuickBooks on one page. His accountant opens a link; the site still has three users, same as 2019.
The agency Monday
One agency, six client stores, each connected under its own name. Every client now opens their own live dashboard instead of waiting for the screenshot deck.
The variation cull
Refunds grouped by product variation, a view the Analytics tab doesn't have, kept pointing at one colorway. Retiring it cost nothing and shrank the returns pile.
When you don't need us
If the Analytics tab answers your questions and you're the only one who needs to look, keep it; it's free and it ships with your store. If what you want is a live order feed, cart tracking, and abandoned cart emails, Metorik is excellent, built only for stores like yours, and worth its subscription. Papercrane is worth paying for when the answer needs more than your store's own data, or when it has to live somewhere other people can open it.
Questions store owners ask us
Most WooCommerce answers involve money that settled somewhere else. Stripe and PayPal know your fees; QuickBooks knows your costs.
Create a read only key in your admin, paste it in, and ask what the store did last month. The answer comes back as a dashboard you can hand to anyone.
Free to connect and ask. Flat paid plans start at publishing, not priced by your orders. See pricing
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