CStoreiQ's AI Insights module analyzes your store's transaction, promotion, and fuel data to surface actionable intelligence — from identifying your top and bottom-performing items, to revealing which products customers frequently buy together, to tracking fuel sales trends over time.
Navigation: Sidebar → AI Insights
When you first open AI Insights, you'll see three controls at the top of the page:
Once you click Go, four insight tabs appear below the filters:
The Item Insights tab displays your store's item performance in a three-column layout:
| Column | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Top Selling (green header) | Your best-performing items ranked by quantity sold, with item name, department, UPC, quantity, and dollar sales. |
| Low Selling (orange header) | Items with minimal sales during the selected period — useful for identifying slow movers. |
| No Sales (red header) | Items in your inventory that had zero transactions — candidates for return or discontinuation. |
In the top-right corner, a Fetch count field (default: 10) lets you adjust how many items appear in each column. Increase the number and click the arrow button to see more items.
Below the three columns, an AI Suggestions card provides two automatically generated recommendations:
The Promotion Insights tab analyzes how your promotions are performing during the selected date range.
The top section displays two groups of cards:
Below the promo cards, two charts visualize redemption trends:
The Market Basket Insights tab reveals which items your customers tend to purchase together. This has two sub-tabs:
This view has two panels side by side:
This sub-tab displays a grid of Frequent Combo cards. Each card shows:
The Fuel tab provides a comprehensive view of your fuel sales performance with period-over-period comparisons.
At the top, a multi-select filter lets you choose which fuel grades to include (e.g., UNLD, PLUS, PREM, Diesel). All grades are selected by default.
A collapsible card shows four time-period comparison cards side by side:
| Period Card | Compares Against |
|---|---|
| Yesterday | vs Day Before |
| Last 7 Days | vs Previous 7 Days |
| MTD (Month to Date) | vs PMTD (Previous Month to Date) |
| Last Month | vs P2M (Two Months Ago) |
Each period card displays three KPIs:
Color-coded delta badges at the bottom show the change: green (up) for increases and red (down) for decreases vs. the comparison period.
Below the overview, select two custom date ranges (Range A and Range B) and click Compare for a side-by-side comparison with Overview and Detail tabs.
Use the Fetch count field in the top-right corner of the Item Insights tab. Enter a new number and click the arrow button to reload.
Confidence shows how likely a customer purchasing one item will also purchase the associated item. A confidence of 5.4% means 5.4% of transactions containing the first item also contained the associated item.
On the first day of the month, there may not be fuel data yet. The MTD card will populate as transactions come in.
Currently, AI Insights are view-only. For exportable data, use the Reports module in the sidebar.
The Prediction Engine (forecasting fuel and inside sales using weather data) is an advanced feature that may need to be enabled. Contact CStoreiQ support.
| Symptom | Fix |
|---|---|
| No data after clicking Go | Verify you selected a store and valid date range. New stores may lack transaction history. |
| Promotion Insights shows no data | No promotions were redeemed in the selected period. Expand the date range or try a different store. |
| Market Basket is empty | Requires sufficient multi-item transactions. Try a longer date range. |
| Fuel delta shows 0% with zeros | Comparison period may lack fuel data. Verify data exists for both periods. |
| AI Suggestions not showing | Requires data in both Top Selling and No Sales columns. |
For any other issues, contact CStoreiQ Support.