Tapcart

Tapcart turns a Shopify store into a native iOS and Android app. Dynasort works with it on two levels. The sorting you already run reaches the app on its own, because Tapcart reads collections straight from Shopify. On top of that you can connect Tapcart’s clickstream webhook so the browsing, carts and orders that happen inside the app show up in Dynasort Insights.

What carries over on its own

Dynasort writes every ranking into the collection’s order in Shopify. Tapcart reads collections from Shopify and shows the products in that order, so the following work in the app with nothing to connect:

• Collection sorting. Every collection Dynasort sorts is sorted the same way in the app, on the same schedule.
• Pins and boosts. A product you pin to a position, or boost inside a recipe, lands in that spot in the app too.
• Sort Rotation. A rotation changes the Shopify order, so the app follows each step.
• Managed collections. A Dynasort managed collection is a normal Shopify collection. Publish it to the Tapcart sales channel and you can point any Tapcart home-screen block at it. A “Trending” or “Selling fast” managed collection makes a good app landing block.
• Order-based attributes. Orders placed in the app are ordinary Shopify orders, so sales velocity, revenue and margin attributes already include them.

Publish to the Tapcart sales channel

Tapcart shows only products and collections that are published to the Tapcart - Mobile App sales channel in Shopify, and only active products. If a Dynasort managed collection does not appear in the app, check its sales channel availability in the Shopify admin.

Timing

Dynasort re-sorts on your plan’s schedule. Tapcart picks up Shopify changes within a few minutes of a sort. If a collection looks stale in the app, force-close and reopen it.

Bringing app traffic into Insights

Shopify web pixels only run in a browser. Inside a native app there is no pixel, so on its own Dynasort sees the orders your app produces but none of the browsing that led to them. Tapcart’s clickstream webhook fixes that: Tapcart sends each in-app action to a URL you choose, and Dynasort gives every store its own URL.

Connect it

1. In Dynasort, open Settings and scroll to Tapcart mobile app. Copy the Clickstream webhook URL.
2. In the Tapcart dashboard, open Settings, then Webhooks. Turn the feature on, paste the URL and choose which events to send. Select all events, or at least collectionViewed, productViewed, cartAdd and purchaseCompleted. Save.
3. Open your app and browse a collection. Back in Dynasort Settings, the Tapcart card shows how many events have arrived and when the last one landed.

Opening the URL in a browser shows a short confirmation naming your store, which is a quick way to check it was pasted correctly.

Tip

Webhooks only send events from the moment you connect them. Tapcart does not backfill history, so connect it as soon as your app is live.

What Dynasort records

Tapcart event	What Dynasort records
applicationOpened, pageView	Starts or continues an app session
collectionViewed	A collection view
productViewed	A product view
cartAdd	An add to cart for each product that was added
purchaseCompleted	An order, linked to the session that produced it

Every other event is accepted and ignored. Sessions are cut the same way as web sessions, after an hour of inactivity, and appear in Insights once the normal processing runs, usually within a few hours.

Dynasort keeps the anonymous device identifier Tapcart assigns, the event time and the product, collection or order id. It does not store names, emails, customer ids or push tokens. Shoppers who have opted out of tracking in the app are never recorded.

Where app sessions show up

• Insights session counts, collection conversion and the timeline include app sessions alongside web sessions.
• Co-occurrence attributes (viewed together, carted together, bought together) learn from app behaviour too, which sharpens recommendations for both channels.

A new URL

Generate a new URL on the Tapcart card retires the current one immediately. Use it if the URL was shared somewhere it should not have been. Paste the new URL into Tapcart afterwards.

Search and merchandising apps inside Tapcart

Tapcart lets you connect a search or merchandising provider (Algolia, Searchspring, Nosto, Fast Simon, Constructor, Boost, Searchanise and others). When one is connected, that provider decides the order of products in the app’s collection grids, so Dynasort’s order can be overridden in the app while the web store still shows it. If you rely on Dynasort for collection order, either leave the provider’s collection merchandising off or use it for search only.

Shopify Search and Discovery is different. In Tapcart it adds sort and filter controls to collection pages; the collection’s default order stays the one Shopify holds, which is Dynasort’s.

Dynasort’s own search re-ranking and product recommendation widgets run on your web storefront and do not render inside a Tapcart app.

Rank metafields in the app

If you enable Push Rank to Metafields, each product carries its rank position, score and percentile as metafields. Tapcart can read product metafields once Storefront API access is enabled on the metafield definition in Shopify (Settings, then Metafields and metaobjects), and can show them in product page blocks or use them in conditional visibility rules. Tapcart badges are driven by product tags, so a “Top 10” badge needs a tag as well, which a tagging app or Shopify Flow can add.

Troubleshooting

The app shows a different order than the web store. Give Tapcart a few minutes after a sort, then force-close and reopen the app. If the difference persists, check whether a search or merchandising provider is connected in Tapcart, and confirm the collection is enabled in Dynasort.

No events are arriving. Open the webhook URL in a browser. If it returns a message naming your store, the URL is right and the webhook toggle or event selection in Tapcart is the place to look. If it returns an error, copy the URL again from Dynasort Settings.

Orders show but no browsing. The webhook is not connected, or only purchaseCompleted is selected. Add the browsing events.

Setting up Tapcart itself

Tapcart is a separate subscription. In short: install it from the Shopify App Store, design the app in Tapcart’s App Studio, and publish through your own Apple Developer and Google Play accounts. Tapcart’s own guides cover the details: Adding products and collections, Connecting clickstream webhooks and their FAQ.