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Turn customers into Superfans with Okendo, the unified customer marketing platform for reviews, referrals, loyalty, quizzes, and surveys, making it easy to cultivate advocacy, scale word-of-mouth, and maximize lifetime value. 8,000+ Shopify brands use Okendo to mobilize their customers for faster and more efficient growth, including SKIMS, Liquid Death, and Oh Polly.

Tolstoy is a video commerce platform that drives customer engagement and sales through shoppable videos. Tolstoy allows brands to publish video feeds across thousands of site pages, without impacting site performance. Video management is effortless with Tosltoy, leveraging auto-importing content from social media, AI-powered tagging, UCG search, and automated distribution to the site and across additional marketing channels such as emails, the Shop app, and mobile app.

Headless frontend software to build sites with the services you want, like Shopify, Stripe, and WordPress. Integrate data from anywhere: APIs, databases, CMSs, static files — or multiple sources at once.

Impact’s partnership platform lets you discover new partners and recruit them with automated nurture campaigns. Contract newcomers and negotiate payout terms. Track the traffic driven on your properties and engage/train partners. Optimize & adjust partner strategy in-app.

Loop allows Shopify brands to automate the entire return & exchanges process. If your customer got the wrong product, make it easy to get the right one. Loop offers 4 ways to return: exchange, shop now, store credit, or refund.

Afterpay is a ‘buy-now-pay-later’ platform that allows customers to pay for their purchases over four, fortnightly instalments. Retailers that offer Afterpay get paid immediately, but are charged a merchant fee of 4.17%. It’s like a modern-day credit card with an interest-free period.

Klarna gives your customers flexibility on payment when purchasing from your store. Customers can split their purchase into manageable instalments or pay for your order up to 30 days later. The merchant cost for each purchase is up to 0.30 USD + 3.29% per transaction.

Hotjar is a behavior analytics and user feedback service that helps you understand the behavior of your website users and get their feedback through tools such as heatmaps, session recordings, and surveys.

Text based marketing for eCommerce stores. Attentive is used mainly as a way to promote offers via SMS, or otherwise used for abandoned carts or to promote retention. Attentive also directly integrates with eCommerce platforms such as Shopify.

Mixpanel is a tool that allows you to analyze how users interact with your website. It’s designed to make teams more efficient by allowing everyone to analyze user data in real-time to identify trends, understand user behavior, and make decisions about your product.

Gorgias is of the most popular helpdesks for D2C brands. It centralizes all your support tickets in one place and enriches them with lots of extra context about a buyer's profile. Through Gorgias, you can connect directly to your eCommerce store and edit orders, modify subscriptions, and refund payments without leaving your helpdesk.

Algolia is search software to improve your in-store search experience, increase conversions and order value. Algolia connects to your product catalog, to provide a frictionless search and navigation experience. Create custom logic to promote specific results and merchandise your collection pages.

Clarity is a free, easy-to-use tool that captures how real people actually use your site. Setup is easy and you'll start getting data in minutes.

Record all your website visitors' sessions. Get heatmaps for all your pages generated automatically. Filter your data any way you want to find exactly what you are looking for. And find your website problems quickly with a friction score.

Klaviyo is the best in class email marketing solution for eCommerce. It's powerful because it connects to your store, and you can create awesome customer segments based on past purchasing behaviors, customer preferences, and even future predictions of spending.

Next.js is an open-source React based JavaScript framework created by Vercel. Next.js boasts many features that align with the specs required for eCommerce projects, including; Live collaboration tooling, image optimization for seamless product discovery, built-in internationalization, and built-in analytics.

Shopify is the center of our universe. It's everything to us and the ecosystem. Without Shopify, 1-800-D2C wouldn't be here. So instead of a generic tool description for Shopify, we would rather just say thank you and express our gratitude for everything they are enabling for us and the world. ❤️

Sumo provides tools to grow your site. Their most popular tool/plugin is an email capture tool. It's free and easy to implement. They have apps for Wordpress and Shopify.