Opportunities
Problems on your store worth fixing, ranked by projected revenue, and the place you triage new ones.
An opportunity is a problem on your store backed by evidence, with an estimate of what fixing it is worth per year. Each one holds the ideas, tests, and fixes you create to address it, so the work stays attached to the reason for doing it.
Where opportunities come from
- Audits. Each audit groups related findings into opportunities and adds them to the New tab.
- Explorations. Opportunities you accept from an exploration land on the New tab too.
- You. Click Create opportunity to track something Spar didn't surface. This needs at least one finished audit.
Tabs, filters, and views
The tabs split opportunities by status:
- New: not triaged yet.
- Active: accepted and being worked on. Rows show how many tests are linked.
- Resolved: done.
- Archived: set aside.
Use the search icon to search by title. Filter narrows the list by Page type, Journey stage, Recommendation (fixes or tests), and Tests (with or without linked tests), and lets you sort by highest impact, newest, or oldest.
The icons on the right switch between list view, card view, and, on the New tab, triage view.
Click Estimate missing impacts to queue revenue estimates for any opportunities that don't have one yet. Estimates appear on the opportunities as they finish.
Triage
New opportunities wait on the New tab until you accept or dismiss them. Accepting moves an opportunity to Active. Dismissing takes it out of your queue.
You can triage straight from the list: every row on the New tab has Dismiss and Accept buttons. For a closer look at each one, switch to triage view with the stack icon.
Triage view shows one card at a time with a counter ("1 of 58") and a progress bar. Each card has the title, why it matters, the projected yearly gain, the journey stage, how many ideas are attached, and the evidence with its source. Click View details to read more without leaving the stack.
Triage shortcuts
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| A | Accept |
| D | Dismiss |
| Shift + D | Dismiss with a reason |
| ← / → | Previous / next opportunity |
| Enter | View details |
Dismiss with a reason
Open the arrow next to Dismiss (or press Shift + D in triage view) to add a note under "Why are you dismissing this opportunity?", then click Dismiss with reason. Press Cmd + Enter (or Ctrl + Enter) to submit from the keyboard.
If you'd like accepting to go a step further, turn on Accept ideas automatically when an opportunity is accepted in Settings > Workflow. Spar then accepts the opportunity's recommended idea and queues it as a test.
For a guided first pass, see Triage your first audit.
Quick view
In triage view, click View details (or press Enter) to open a side sheet with the title, projected yearly gain, problem summary, and evidence. Use the arrows at the top to step through the list, Add to notebook to save it to a notebook, and Open full page for everything else. Dismiss and Accept sit at the bottom.
The opportunity page
Clicking a row in list or card view opens the opportunity's full page.
The header shows the title, a journey stage menu you can change, the status, a description, and the projected yearly impact. While the opportunity is new, a bar at the bottom offers Dismiss (D) and Accept (A), and the arrow keys move to the previous or next opportunity.
Projected impact
Click the info icon next to the impact to see how it's calculated: the formula, the inputs and where each came from, and a Projected range with three recovery levels:
- Conservative: 25% recovery
- Moderate: 50% recovery
- Optimistic: 75% recovery
Click a level to use it. The impact shown on the opportunity updates to match.
Ideas and tests
Ideas and tests lists the ideas, tests, and fixes linked to the opportunity. Click New idea to add your own. Click Review on an idea to read its hypothesis and target page, then Create test to send it to the Board. The ... menu next to New idea has Link external experiment, for connecting a test you're already running on another experiment platform.
Evidence and inspiration
Evidence lists the observations behind the opportunity, such as UX observations, journey insights, and voice-of-customer findings. Inspiration finds similar pages from your inspiration sources.
There's also a Comments section for notes from your team.
More actions
The ... menu in the top right has Add to notebook, Copy link, Resolve, and Archive. Archived and resolved opportunities can be brought back with Unarchive or Reopen.
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