Make the Most of Your Recharge Data in BigQuery

Recharge and BigQuery are a natural fit for data modeling, business intelligence and data activation – especially for retail brands interested in optimizing their overall business performance, acquisition and retention marketing programs, and merchandising and fulfillment operations decisions.

Recharge powers the growth of thousands of subscription merchants, as well as their communities. Recharge believes subscriptions are a powerful way for consumers to engage with their favorite brands. BigQuery is a serverless and cost-effective enterprise data warehouse that works across clouds and scales with your data. Use built-in ML/AI and BI for insights at scale. Together, the software application and cloud data tooling provide business and data practitioners with an opportunity to analyze and optimize ecommerce, shopping carts, composable commerce and subscription platforms to drive profitable growth.

Connect to Recharge

The first step toward useful, modeled Recharge data in BigQuery is to connect the source and destination systems. There are many legacy tools available in market that handle the ETL or ELT transfer of Recharge data to BigQuery, and there are emerging tools that accomplish this transfer while providing value-added services like local data logging, and semantic data labeling and mapping along the way – making Recharge data modeling, analytics and activation easier once the data is landed in BigQuery.

To connect to Recharge, follow these easy steps

• Open SoundCommerce in any browser. Open the “Intelligent Pipeline” application from the top right navigation menu. Select “Sources” from the left navigation menu. Choose “Add New Source” from within the Sources pane to open the data source library.

• Search or browse to find “Recharge” within the data source library.

• Complete the “Connection Setup” form with your credentials and token to securely connect to Recharge and begin collecting source data.

Log Recharge Data for Flexible Modeling in BigQuery

There are a few more considerations to address along the way. First, what happens if Recharge is unavailable for some reason, or the data you’re expecting has been purged by Recharge? What happens when Recharge changes their API schemas and data scope? What happens if you need to reinterpret your Recharge data for a new use case in the future?

You’ll want your Recharge data immutably logged locally, just upstream of BigQuery to ensure you have the data and data flow flexibility you need to future-proof your Recharge data and models. SoundCommerce provides permanent logging of Recharge data upstream of BigQuery to ensure failover and future-proofing. Regardless of how you connect your Recharge and BigQuery data, you’ll want a data lake or event log in the middle to ensure data integrity and modeling flexibility.

Define and Label Recharge Data for BigQuery

As new technologies arise and best practices evolve, traditional integration tools like ETL and ELT data pipelines are giving way to intelligent pipelines that help prep data for BigQuery starting at ingest. Simply moving JSON from Recharge to BigQuery leaves all the work for your data team in BigQuery.

As you onboard your Recharge data into BigQuery, you’ll want to create semantic labels and metadata that describe the Recharge data for easier unification and modeling across other systems and data in BigQuery.

There are third-party solutions that will catalog your Recharge data and generate semantic labels and mappings after you’ve landed it in BigQuery. With SoundCommerce, the Recharge data is defined and labeled on its way into BigQuery instead, to avoid this costly rework later. You’ll end up with business-ready entities like orders, customers, products and campaigns, making it much easier to model your Recharge data in BigQuery.

Map Recharge Entities to BigQuery

Once the raw Recharge data has been organized into useful entities, it’s time to map the Recharge data into useful tables in BigQuery.

Why do defined and labeled entities from Recharge matter so much? The main reason is that Recharge data needs to be combined with data from other SaaS and on-premise software systems in useful ways. Landing raw Recharge data in BigQuery without this semantic understanding means data engineering and analyst teams must do all of the heavy lifting regarding the meaning of the Recharge data and the standardization of the meaning of that Recharge data from scratch in BigQuery.

Defining, labeling and mapping the Recharge data on the way in means much less effort once the data is landed in BigQuery.

Materialize Recharge Data in BigQuery

Next, you’ll establish a secure connection to BigQuery:

• Select “Destinations” from the left navigation menu. Choose “Add New Destination” from within the Destinations pane to open the data destination library.

• Complete the “Connection Setup” form to securely connect to BigQuery to establish a secure destination for your labeled, mapped and modeled data.

That’s it! You now have logged, labeled and mapped data from Recharge flowing securely to BigQuery.

Model Recharge Data in BigQuery

Once you have well-formed entities from Recharge onboarded to BigQuery, it’s time to build useful analytical and behavioral models on the Recharge data – and combine the Recharge data with data sets from other systems in BigQuery for more advanced, cross-dimensional analysis.

You can build your own analytical models on the Recharge data in BigQuery using languages like SQL and Python, organized into model libraries in tools like DBT or Coalesce. With SoundCommerce, you get prebuilt analytical models for Recharge running in BigQuery, with ready access to the model source code in DBT.

Host the Modeled Recharge Data in BigQuery for Analytics

BigQuery supports reporting and visualization through a wide variety of analytics tools including Sigma, Tableau, Looker, Power BI and Microstrategy to name a few. You can build your own dashboards, tabular views and graphs in any of these tools to reveal insights about Recharge in your BigQuery models. SoundCommerce provides pre-built embedded reports in Sigma to reduce the time, cost and risk of BI reporting of Recharge data out of BigQuery – so you can start making better decisions and taking better action as soon as you’ve connected Recharge to BigQuery.

Host the Modeled Recharge Data in BigQuery for Campaign and Customer Activation

Whether your marketing team uses Recharge for activation – or uses other tools and channels or both to take action on the data – you’ll want to be able to easily move your modeled Recharge data in BigQuery to your most important marketing applications.

If you’ve followed the steps above to properly onboard and model your Recharge data in BigQuery, it’s easy to use reverse ETL (rETL) tools like Census or Hightouch to orchestrate the data from there, or use SoundCommerce native orchestrations to push data into common channels and applications like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Braze, Klaviyo, Insider or Dynamic Yield to put the Recharge data in BigQuery to use!

Getting Your Recharge Data Defined, Labeled, Mapped and Modeled in BigQuery is Easy!

SoundCommerce can automate the steps necessary to bring Recharge data into BigQuery, addressing the key functions of raw Recharge data logging, Recharge semantic definitions and mappings, and pre-built Recharge data models that are analytics- and activation ready in BigQuery.

Contact us today to get started with Recharge in BigQuery!

Technical Resources for Integrating
Recharge Data with BigQuery

More information and technical specifications for data collection from Recharge is available at:

Recharge API Documentation

More information and technical specifications for data ingest into BigQuery is available at:

BigQuery API Documentation