Honest guides to the options — including the ones that don't involve us. Each covers how the data is actually shaped, what each approach costs in money and maintenance, and how to keep heavy reads off the database serving your customers.
BigQuery and friends: worth it when you're joining several sources or working at a scale a single database won't serve.
The practical options for getting WooCommerce order, product and customer data into BigQuery — managed ETL, a DIY pipeline, or an isolated PostgreSQL copy you can load from without touching production.
Read the guideHow to get PrestaShop orders, products and customers into BigQuery — managed ETL, a custom pipeline, or an isolated PostgreSQL copy that keeps every heavy read off your live shop.
Read the guideOptions for moving Magento 2 sales, product and customer data into BigQuery — managed ETL, a custom CDC pipeline, or an isolated PostgreSQL copy you can query and load from safely.
Read the guideHow to move Shopify orders, products and customers into BigQuery — the Bulk Operations API, managed ETL connectors, and what each costs when there's no database to connect to.
Read the guideDump-and-load, CDC replication or a managed connector — how to sync a MySQL database into BigQuery, what each approach costs you, and how to keep the extract off your production server.
Read the guideWhere most store analysis actually happens. Publish a query as a link and the sheet refreshes itself — the trick is aggregating before it travels, not after.
How to get WooCommerce orders, products and customers into Google Sheets — the plugin route, the Apps Script route, and querying a PostgreSQL copy so the numbers are already aggregated before they land.
Read the guideExport PrestaShop orders, products, customers and stock into Google Sheets — the SQL manager route, modules, and querying an isolated PostgreSQL copy so what lands in the sheet is already the answer.
Read the guideGet Magento 2 orders, products and customers into Google Sheets — admin grid exports, scripts against MySQL, or a PostgreSQL copy you query and publish as a link the sheet refreshes itself.
Read the guideGet Shopify orders, products and customers into Google Sheets — the admin CSV export, add-ons that refresh on a schedule, and a script on the Admin API when you need a shape nobody else offers.
Read the guideConnect a MySQL database to Google Sheets — Apps Script and JDBC, add-ons, or querying an isolated PostgreSQL copy and exporting results that are already aggregated.
Read the guideShareable dashboards that read a PostgreSQL copy directly — no export step, and no reports pointed at your live shop.
Connect WooCommerce to Looker Studio — community connectors, pointing it at MySQL directly, or reading an isolated PostgreSQL copy natively so reports never query your live shop.
Read the guideBuild Looker Studio dashboards on PrestaShop data — connecting to MySQL directly, exporting to Sheets, or reading an isolated PostgreSQL copy with the native connector so nothing hits your live shop.
Read the guideBuild Looker Studio dashboards on Magento 2 data — the MySQL connector pointed at your store, or an isolated PostgreSQL copy read natively so reports never query production.
Read the guideBuild Looker Studio dashboards on Shopify data — community connectors, a warehouse in between, or Sheets as the source. What each costs and which one survives a growing store.
Read the guideHow to connect a MySQL database to Looker Studio — the built-in connector, a read replica, or an isolated PostgreSQL copy that keeps every dashboard query off your production server.
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