Kernvel ListIQ — Sister-App Integrations

ListIQ knows exactly what your shoppers want next. That signal gets a lot more valuable when ListIQ works alongside the other Kernvel apps on your store.

Run ListIQ with a sister app and wishlist intent becomes more useful: live stock urgency, early-access auction audiences, respectful campaign suppression, and saved demand from failed visual searches. No code, no exports, no spreadsheets. This page explains what each pairing does and where it shows up.

Table of contents

1. How connections work
2. The Connections screen
3. Wishlist → auction invites (with AuctionAI)
4. Back-in-stock alerts (with StockIQ)
5. Lost-search → wishlist capture (with SearchIQ)
6. Return-risk trust signals (with ReturnsIQ)
7. Privacy: what gets shared
8. FAQ

How connections work

Every Kernvel app can talk to its sister apps. When you have two Kernvel apps installed on the same store, the capabilities that need both apps light up — ListIQ's wishlist demand flows to the app that can act on it, and signals from sister apps flow back into ListIQ.

The important parts:

• No setup beyond installing the second app. Once both apps are on your store, the pairing is wired automatically.
• It's a private, app-to-app exchange. The apps swap only the minimum needed — counts, flags, product IDs, a snapshot of consented recipients — never raw customer lists. (See Privacy.)
• You're always in control. Consent and sending stay inside ListIQ. ListIQ never emails a shopper who hasn't opted in, and it respects your plan's monthly send caps on every cross-app send.

The mental model: run ListIQ + another app and you also get a new capability. See it — and install any missing sister — in Connections.

The Connections screen

Open Connections from the left navigation in ListIQ. It's a single page that shows you, app by app, how ListIQ pairs with the rest of the Kernvel suite — and the live status of each pairing.

The page carries a card for each available pairing. Each card tells you:

• What the pairing does in one line, and the concrete benefit.
• A real example so you can picture it on your store.
• Status — whether the sister app is connected, installed but inactive, or not installed yet.
• An "Install" button when you don't have the sister app yet. One tap takes you to its Shopify App Store listing; once it's installed, the pairing is ready wherever the workflow uses it.

The SearchIQ pairing is different: it surfaces on the SearchIQ storefront flow, where a shopper saves a near-match from a failed visual search into ListIQ. There is no ListIQ-side toggle for that capture path; it appears where the shopper actually uses it.

Below the pairing cards, Recent connected activity shows the work ListIQ actually processed for sister apps: SearchIQ wishlist captures, StockIQ back-in-stock fan-out, and AuctionAI invite runs. Use it to see product names, source app, status, send/candidate counts, and skip reasons without leaving ListIQ.

Connections is a discovery and status hub — there's nothing to misconfigure. The pairings activate automatically when both apps are present, and the heavy lifting (consent checks, recipient lookup, send caps) is handled for you inside ListIQ.

Wishlist → auction invites (with AuctionAI)

What you get: the shoppers who already saved a product get first crack at it when you auction it — an early-access bidding window and an invite email, optionally with a discount code. Your most-interested buyers come back to compete for something they were already eyeing.

Why it matters: a wishlist is a list of people who raised their hand for a product. When that product becomes a limited-run or timed auction, those are exactly the people most likely to bid — and to bid higher. Instead of announcing the auction to everyone and hoping, you start it with a warm, high-intent audience.

How it works: when you create a wishlister-targeted auction in AuctionAI, AuctionAI asks ListIQ for the audience that saved that product. ListIQ owns the sensitive part of the workflow:

• It resolves who actually wishlisted the item.
• It checks each shopper's current email marketing consent at send time (via Shopify), so only opted-in shoppers are emailed.
• It sends the early-access invite — with your auction link and any discount code AuctionAI passed along — and reports back counts only.

AuctionAI never receives your customers' emails or recipient IDs; it gets the audience size and the send results, nothing more.

Turn it on: install both ListIQ and AuctionAI. You'll see the "Invite wishlisters to auctions" pairing in ListIQ's Connections screen, and you set up the actual auction on the AuctionAI side.

After an invite run, ListIQ's Recent connected activity shows candidate, consented, sent, skipped, and failed counts so you can confirm what happened.

A heads-up on the email itself: the invite goes only to shoppers with active consent, and discount-code invites depend on your auction setup in AuctionAI. Treat this as a capability that brings your warmest buyers back — the exact offer and timing are yours to configure.

Back-in-stock alerts (with StockIQ)

What you get: when a sold-out product comes back, the shoppers who wishlisted it are emailed automatically the moment it's restocked. No manual list-building, no watching inventory — the people who wanted it most hear about it first.

Why it matters: "out of stock" is one of the biggest silent revenue leaks on a store. A wishlist captures demand for an item even while it's unavailable. Pair that with a system that knows the instant stock returns and you close the loop automatically — the classic, highest-converting "it's back" email, sent at exactly the right second.

How it works: StockIQ is the source of truth for inventory. When it sees a product replenish, it tells ListIQ. ListIQ then:

• Finds every shopper with that item on a wishlist who hasn't bought it yet.
• Sends only to shoppers who opted in to back-in-stock emails, and never twice for the same restock (there's a built-in cooldown).
• Counts each send against your plan's monthly back-in-stock allowance, so it stays predictable.

This is the same back-in-stock email ListIQ can already send on its own — the StockIQ pairing just makes the trigger real-time and reliable, driven by true inventory events instead of periodic catalog checks.

Turn it on: install both ListIQ and StockIQ. The "Live stock for wishlisters" pairing appears in Connections. Make sure back-in-stock notifications are enabled in ListIQ → Settings → Notifications.

Each StockIQ-triggered restock also appears in Recent connected activity with wishlister, queued, skipped, and available-inventory counts.

Lost-search → wishlist capture (with SearchIQ)

What you get: when a shopper's visual search doesn't find an exact match, they can save the closest product to their wishlist in one tap — so a search that would have ended in a bounce ends in captured demand instead.

Why it matters: failed searches are pure lost intent. Someone wanted something, your catalog didn't surface it, and they leave with no trace. This pairing turns that dead end into a saved item — which then feeds everything ListIQ does best: intent scoring, price-drop and back-in-stock triggers, gift guides, and reminder campaigns.

How it works: SearchIQ powers image/visual search on your storefront. When a search comes up short and the shopper chooses to save the nearest match, SearchIQ hands that intent to ListIQ. ListIQ adds the product to the right shopper's wishlist — resolving or creating the customer record, de-duplicating if the item's already saved, and respecting your plan's per-list item limit. From that point on the saved item behaves like any other wishlist item.

Turn it on: install both ListIQ and SearchIQ. The capture flow runs on the SearchIQ side of the storefront; ListIQ receives and stores the saved item automatically.

Successful, skipped, and duplicate captures appear in ListIQ's Recent connected activity with the SearchIQ source badge and product context.

Return-risk trust signals (with ReturnsIQ)

What you get: ListIQ becomes quietly smarter about which products to promote — your reminder and price-drop campaigns can skip items a shopper is actively in the middle of returning, so you don't email "still want this?" about something headed back to you.

Why it matters: nothing undercuts a marketing email like bad timing. Nudging someone toward a product they're about to return (or just did) reads as tone-deaf and wastes a send. A coarse, privacy-safe signal from ReturnsIQ lets ListIQ make a better call about what to feature.

How it works: when ReturnsIQ is installed, ListIQ can use its return-risk and active-return signals as advisory input. In practice you'll see this in the campaign builder: when you build a price-drop, back-in-stock, or high-intent campaign, you can choose to exclude recently-returned products from the send. The signal is advisory only — it never auto-blocks a customer and never hard-stops a campaign; it just helps you avoid the awkward sends.

The relationship runs the other way too: engagement that ListIQ tracks — shoppers who actively wishlist, save, and buy — is exactly the kind of positive signal that helps the suite tell a genuine customer apart from a serial returner, reducing false flags elsewhere.

Turn it on: install both ListIQ and ReturnsIQ. The "exclude recently-returned products" option then becomes available on the relevant campaign types in ListIQ's campaign builder.

Privacy: what gets shared

Cross-app pairings are built to share the minimum needed and nothing more:

• Counts, flags, and product IDs move between apps — not raw customer lists.
• Consent stays with ListIQ. For any cross-app email (auction invites, back-in-stock), ListIQ checks the shopper's current marketing consent before sending and honors your unsubscribes and quiet hours.
• Sister apps get results, not contacts. When AuctionAI asks ListIQ to send invites, it gets back how many were sent and skipped — never the email addresses or who they belong to.
• Everything is store-scoped. A pairing can only ever read or write data for your own store, authenticated privately between the apps.
• You control each app. Don't want a pairing? Don't install the sister app — or uninstall it. Nothing activates without both apps present on your store.

This mirrors ListIQ's standalone privacy posture: guest wishlists use an anonymous session, customer data is never sold, and all data handling follows GDPR, CCPA, and Shopify's Partner requirements.

FAQ

Do I have to configure anything for a pairing to work? No. Install both apps and the pairing wires itself up. The Connections screen is there to show you what's available and let you install any sister app you're missing — not to make you set anything up.

Will a cross-app email bypass my plan limits or a customer's unsubscribe? Never. Cross-app sends (auction invites, back-in-stock) count against your plan's monthly allowances and respect consent, unsubscribes, and quiet hours exactly like ListIQ's own emails.

Which apps does ListIQ pair with? Today: AuctionAI (wishlist → auction invites), StockIQ (real-time back-in-stock), SearchIQ (capture demand from failed searches), and ReturnsIQ (return-risk signals to skip awkward sends). More pairings arrive as the suite grows.

Do I need a paid ListIQ plan for integrations? The pairings themselves are about having both apps installed. Note that the ListIQ features they feed — like the email caps for back-in-stock and auction invites — follow your ListIQ plan's normal limits.

Where do I manage all this? ListIQ's Connections screen shows the StockIQ, AuctionAI, and ReturnsIQ pairings and their live status. SearchIQ surfaces where shoppers use it: the visual-search flow on your storefront. The sister-app-specific setup (e.g. creating an auction in AuctionAI, enabling visual search in SearchIQ) happens in that sister app.

Need help?

• In-app feedback — click the floating "Report Issue" button on any ListIQ admin page.
• Email — support@kernvellabs.com
• More on each app — see the Kernvel ecosystem.

— The ListIQ team