Documentation
Everything you need to get the most out of SmartConvertAI.
Getting started
- Install SmartConvertAI from the Shopify App Store. The app opens inside your Shopify admin.
- Click Add a page and paste the public URL of a page of your store (home, collection, product, page, blog or article). Choose its page type.
- Start the audit. It usually takes one to two minutes; you can leave the page, the result is saved.
Tip: start with your best-selling product page and your home page — that is where most visitors land.
Reading your audit
The CRO score
A 0–100 assessment of how well the page is built to convert, made of five sub-scores:
| Sub-score | What it measures |
|---|---|
| Clarity | Does a visitor understand right away what is sold and why it matters? |
| Persuasion | Value proposition, calls to action, social proof. |
| Trust | Reviews, guarantees, delivery and return information, security cues. |
| UX friction | Anything that slows the visitor down: clutter, pop-ups, hard-to-find buttons. |
| Mobile | Readability and tap targets on small screens. |
Bands: Strong (80+), Solid (60–79), Needs work (40–59), Weak (under 40). The score is an AI assessment, not a measured conversion rate.
Recommendations
Each recommendation has a priority (high, medium, low), an effort (easy, moderate, hard) and the evidence the AI saw on the page. Use the Quick wins filter to see easy, high-impact fixes. Mark a recommendation as done or dismissed, and rate it 👍 / 👎 to help us improve.
Verifying fixes and re-running audits
After changing your page, open the recommendation and click Verify fix: the AI re-checks that single point on the live page. To see the full picture, re-run the audit: recommendations you already handled are carried over and re-checked rather than repeated, and the dashboard shows your score trend.
AI Developer
An optional module that changes your theme for you. You describe the change in a request (for example “add a delivery-time line under the add-to-cart button”), the AI agent makes it on a work theme, and you review it before publishing.
Activation
- Open AI Developer in the app and click Activate AI Developer. Shopify asks you to grant theme access (
read_themes,write_themes). The CRO audit never needs these permissions. - Choose your work themes: a development copy, a staging copy, both, or none. The copies are made from your live theme; your live theme is not changed.
Permissions and safety
- Live theme mode: forbidden (the agent can never write to it), confirm (each write needs your explicit confirmation) or automatic.
- For each work theme, you decide whether the agent can modify it.
- A complete backup of your live theme is taken before every write to it. Backups are never modified by the agent.
- Every write is checked against your permissions at the moment it happens, and logged.
Publishing
Once you are happy with a change on the work theme, send it to Staging or click Publish to live from the request page. You can also ask our team to review a change before it goes live by writing to support@elkad.fr.
Budget
Each plan includes a monthly AI Developer budget. The app shows the remaining budget before you send a request.
Plans and limits
See Pricing. Audit quotas reset on the 1st of each month (UTC). You can change plans from the app at any time; billing goes through Shopify.
Data and permissions
- The CRO audit requests no Shopify permission: it reads only the public pages you submit.
- No access to your orders, customers or payment data.
- Delete a page and its audits from the app at any time. Uninstalling the app erases your data.
Details in our privacy policy.
Troubleshooting
| Problem | What to do |
|---|---|
| The audit failed | Open the URL in a private window. If the store is password-protected or the page redirects, the audit can’t reach it. |
| The audit is slow | Heavy pages with many third-party scripts take longer. Wait a few minutes; the result is saved. |
| Quota reached | Wait for the monthly reset or upgrade your plan from the app. |
| The AI Developer can’t write | Check that theme access is granted and that the target theme allows modifications in AI Developer settings. |
Still stuck? Contact support.