The morning brief is the peace-of-mind layer. One short email at 8 a.m. that names what moved, what to do about it, and whether anything broke overnight. On quiet days it says so in one line and leaves you alone. On loud days it is the first thing you see, before the support inbox catches up.
Below is a real email rendered from the demo shop, "Lampe & Linen". On a day when the napkin set went out of stock, the brief led with the revenue-drop card.
From: PrestaInsight · 8:00Subject: Your shop, this morning
Info·top riser product
"Beeswax pillar candle (3pk)" is selling 22% faster than last week
+30
168 units in the last 7 days vs 138 the week before. Stock looks fine at 412 on hand. Worth pinning to the homepage while the trend lasts.
Pin to homepage carousel. Bundle it with the soy candle to lift attach rate.
Warning·revenue drop dod
Yesterday's revenue ran 14% below the trailing 14-day median
-€470
€2,840 vs an expected €3,310. The dip lines up with "Linen napkin set, slate" hitting zero stock at 14:20. Replenishment ETA is May 16.
Add an in-stock alert form to the product page so customers come back when it lands.
Info·new repeat buyer burst
Repeat buyers spiked: 31% of yesterday's orders came from returning customers
Up from a 22% baseline. The May 8 email about the new candle scents reached 4,120 inboxes; you can see the click cluster in your acquisition curve.
Fig. 3 · The six rules
Six rules baked in.
01
Revenue drop
Yesterday's revenue against the trailing 14-day median with a confidence band.
02
Zero-order day
A flat zero with no traffic explanation. Almost always a checkout issue.
03
AOV drop
Three days of falling average order value. Often a promo over-converting.
04
Top riser product
A SKU selling materially above its 28-day baseline.
05
Category anomaly
A category running 10%+ outside its expected band.
06
New / repeat buyer burst
When returning customers spike. Surfaces the channel that drove them, before attribution catches up.
The aim is "you'd have caught this anyway, if you had time" rather than novelty.
Fig. 08 · Closer
Want to look at the live dashboard before you commit?
The demo runs on a seeded fictitious shop. Everything works: change the period, sort the order table, click into a top product.