Customer experience is one of the timely topics in the world of E-commerce. Though easy to overlook, shipping-related features undoubtedly dominate most online buyer’s concerns. There is no surprise that customers browse the tracking page an average of 2.6x per order. It’s time to take the aspect into action by building a branded tracking page to offer your customers an easy-to-access tracking tool for their orders and benefits more for your eCommerce business.

Continue reading to see why branded tracking pages are a fundamental tool of increasing a strong post-purchase consumer experience and what elements you should add to the page to drive customer retention and loyalty for your store.

There are so many ways to be transparent about shipping information such as estimated fees or estimated delivery date calculator tools to help customers be aware of how much they have to pay for shipping service and when they can expect to receive their order. Among them, displaying an estimated shipping date is one exquisite and optimal way to maximize traffic and revenue by saving a large number of customers who have abandoned carts.  Moreover, displaying the estimated shipping date eliminates the "shock" effect of potential clients only seeing the shipping time at the end of the buying process, allowing you to be entirely honest.

Statistics show that 86% of online shoppers will decline to return to a brand after just one poor shipping experience. What a huge loss to E-tailers in this competitive E-Commerce world! Is your Shopify store suffering from the same pain? Among various strategies to boost customer retention, providing visible and transparent order tracking ultimately stands out as a defining factor that online store owners should highly focus on. Without investing in an effective order tracking tool, you will run a risk of losing your first-time customer who will turn into a “competitor’s God”.