Compare product sales with the previous period
Works in the free TellMyShop AuditContent & SEO
You see which products dropped and which grew, without exporting orders to a spreadsheet.
What it replaces: 1 h of exporting orders
What you write to Claude
„compare sales in Garden lighting for september vs august. which products dropped the most?”
The problem
September felt weaker than August but I don't know which products dropped.
What Claude does
- Claude finds the category you ask about.
- It compares sales in two periods, product by product.
- It highlights the biggest drops and gains.
- It suggests what to check for the products that fell.
What you get
A per-product comparison of two periods in your shop currency, with next steps for the products that fell.
You stay in control
Claude only reads. Nothing in your shop changes.
Related use cases
- Decide which products to improve first, based on sales
- Refresh category texts for the season, and switch them back later
- Improve the pages of your 20 best sellers
For developers
- Area
- 1 · Content & SEO
- Connector
- daily connector
- In the free Audit
- yes
- For
- Store owner, Marketer / SEO
- Tools
- ps_get_product_sales, ps_get_category_tree
Step by step
- Finds the category ID with ps_get_category_tree.
- Calls ps_get_product_sales with category_id, the date range and compare_previous set to true.
- Sorts by the change in units and net revenue and highlights the biggest drops and gains.
- Suggests checks for dropped products: visibility diagnosis, stock, page content.
Safety
Read-only: nothing in the shop changes, so there is no preview or undo step. Works in the free Audit edition and in whole-shop read-only mode. Only paid orders are counted and no customer data is returned.
Last updated: 2026-10-05