Over the previous few years, we’ve witnessed unprecedented development within the e-commerce sector. In 2020 alone, client spending on-line grew by almost 44%, representing 21% of all retail spending, with additional growth being seen in Q1 of 2021.
Helping to bolster this development, Shopify has grown exponentially, and it’s introduced an unimaginable alternative for e-commerce manufacturers to construct a greater buyer expertise. At Iterable, we all know how essential it’s to offer a hyper-personalized expertise for patrons, and the need to make sure buyer communications are aligned. Incorporating Shopify information into Iterable ensures alignment and offers a means to offer the personalised e-commerce expertise you’re striving for and your clients count on.
While we’ve had an integration with Shopify since 2019, we’re excited to announce that Iterable has taken one other step to help our clients inside this evolving area by launching our new app inside the Shopify App Store Ecosystem. This vital step strengthens our longstanding relationship with Shopify whereas giving clients entry to a robust partnership to take their companies to the subsequent degree.
Why It’s Important to Build Up Your Tech Stack
The significance of bolstering your tech stack is two-fold. The first entails a shift that’s been going down for some time now, and refers to what business consultants name the “Now Economy,” shoppers’ consideration spans are shortening and their expectations of manufacturers are rising. Businesses are anticipated to cater to their clients’ wants at a second’s discover—wherever they’re, each time they need. It’s not sufficient to arrange your on-line retailer and look forward to the transactions to roll in. This evolution has shifted how individuals reside, store, and talk:
- Traditional information retailers and social media ship breaking information 24/7
- A experience to the airport is only a fast Uber or Lyft request away
- Meal supply providers like DoorDash can ship a freshly-cooked dinner proper to your door
- Streaming platforms like Spotify and Netflix supply tens of millions of songs and flicks on the contact of a button
The second business shift is more moderen, or no less than in its dramatic nature, which is an aggressive shift to e-commerce spending. As famous earlier, in 2020 alone, client spending on-line grew by almost 44%, representing 21% of all retail spending, with additional development being seen in Q1 of 2021. We don’t foresee this slowing down anytime quickly, and as a substitute count on this development to aggressively proceed which goes to place additional strain in your tech stack.
To create recurring income to your model, you want a classy advertising and marketing platform like Iterable that may section your audiences, personalize your communications, and act on behavioral information to maximise engagement and income.
And, to make sure our clients’ success inside this evolving retail local weather, we really feel it’s integral to work in the direction of solidifying strategic partnerships with world class suppliers resembling Shopify.
How Does Shopify + Iterable Power Your E-commerce?
Iterable’s sturdy, native app with Shopify lets you:
- Power advertising and marketing and transactional e-commerce messaging throughout channels together with email, push, SMS, and in-app
- Access full historic buy information for improved segmentation and higher/extra exact focusing on
- Personalize your messages with Shopify buyer, order, and product information
By harnessing behavioral information saved in Shopify, entrepreneurs can construct focused and hyper-personalized campaigns in Iterable like:
Welcome Series
Set up a welcome stream in Iterable that routinely begins when a brand new buyer creates an account, indicators up for a publication, or shares a product with a buddy. Activating newly-acquired customers is among the highest ROI actions you possibly can give attention to with Iterable.
Iterable clients can arrange a workflow that listens for an account creation occasion from their Shopify powered web site. Once acquired, the Iterable workflow will routinely message the consumer (on their channel of selection) welcoming them to the platform and inspiring them to finish vital actions like ending their profile, including their bank card, and deciding on their particular pursuits, which in the end convert a newly-acquired consumer to an activated consumer.
Re-Engagement Campaigns
Many on-line retailers have a portion of their consumer base that has gone dormant. Iterable makes it simple for patrons to section their consumer base into audiences primarily based on profile and occasion information, then determine segments with alternatives to restart the dialog and routinely re-engage with them in a significant means. It’s typically rather more cost-effective to re-engage current customers than buying new ones.
There are two widespread re-engagement campaigns: browse abandonment and cart abandonment. Both take a look at buyer information to incentivize a re-engagement primarily based on what the consumer has browsed or left of their cart. And each campaigns will be cross-channel to include cell conduct as nicely.
In the screenshot under, you possibly can see an instance of how an Iterable buyer utilizing Shopify would leverage our Workflow Studio to routinely re-engage a buyer that abandons an merchandise of their procuring cart. The stream begins with Iterable receiving a cart abandonment occasion from Shopify. Iterable then confirms a purchase order has not been made by querying inner Iterable information.
Iterable then segments the consumer’s engagement path primarily based on their current subscription standing, finally driving the consumer to return to the procuring cart and in the end full their buy.

An abandon cart marketing campaign is essential to sustaining engagement.
Here’s a fast rundown of this workflow in motion:
- We’re triggering this workflow on a buyer including one thing to their cart, at which level we put them right into a 30 minute delay.
- After half-hour, we wish to see whether or not or not they went forward and ordered.
- If they didn’t, we then cut up on whether or not or not they’re an Active Subscription (presently have a subscription with our firm).
- If they’re, we set off them into one other workflow to Active Subscription Hardware Upsell (on this instance, an upsell to drive a {hardware} buy)
◦ If they aren’t, then they proceed on our workflow and obtain an deserted cart email with our Send Time Optimization inside 24 hours
- If they’re, we set off them into one other workflow to Active Subscription Hardware Upsell (on this instance, an upsell to drive a {hardware} buy)
- After that email sends, we add them to a one-day delay
- Once the delay’s over, we filter once more to see in the event that they made a purchase order.
- If they did, then they exit the stream as we’ve efficiently pushed a purchase order!
- If they didn’t, then we carry out an A/B check, sending half the purchasers an SMS and the opposite half a second email.
This instance is barely the beginning! You may proceed this Workflow in so some ways, together with checking for cell app utilization and maybe attempting in-app and push notifications inside your workflow.
Check it Out!
As manufacturers look to strengthen their on-line presence, we couldn’t be extra excited to help this development by persevering with to strengthen our relationship with companions resembling Shopify.
Make certain to take a look at our new app and to be taught extra about how manufacturers are leveraging Iterable + Shopify to develop higher buyer experiences, join a customized demo in the present day.