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Get rid of the guesswork and gigantic spreadsheets that have guided your retail planning decisions!Toolio is a cloud-based Merchandising Platform that automates critical workflows, provides real-time insights, and enables remote collaboration, empowering retailers to make faster, data-driven decisions about their most important (and expensive) asset—inventory.

Stamped.io is a tool to collect customer reviews. It's got nifty features including the ability to capture review feedback directly inside email, or the ability to request reviews via Facebook Messenger. Easily leverage the reviews you've gathered by displaying them on your product pages.

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.

Typeform is a very user-friendly form and survey builder. The design is clean and the features are smart: You can customize your survey in different ways, and you can also create lots of clever interactions using features like "logic jumps" which create unique paths of questions based on answers.

Alloy is a no-code tool to create automated workflows that enable your organisation to run more smoothly across operations and communications. It's kind of like if Autopilot (Visual CRM) and Zapier had a child.

Yotpo helps brands collect product reviews that build social proof, crucial for driving sales. With AI-powered review widgets, Yotpo can easily gather high-quality product reviews that influence customer purchasing decisions. Yotpo's partner integrations allow brands to display reviews and star ratings across social media and search engines like Google as well.

SMS Bump (now owned by Yotpo) is an enterprise grade SMS platform designed for eCommerce businesses. Create your custom flows, automations or schedule campaigns and start getting closer to customers.

Littledata provides a seamless connection between your Shopify site, marketing channels, and Google Analytics to give you the most accurate view of your analytics & performance. It's used heavily by brands who have a mix of single-purchase items and subscriptions on their site.

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.

Clearco is a suite of performance financing products & services tailor-made to help founders win. A pay-as-you-grow pioneer and the world’s largest ecommerce investor, their mission is to remove the barriers between brilliant ideas, and brilliant businesses.

Rise.ai enables your eCommerce store to quickly establish a store Credit & loyalty program. With Rise.ai you harness the power of gift cards to increase revenue & loyalty and to drive new customers to your store.

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.

Unbounce helps your small business get more from every click—create and optimize landing pages that prompt your visitors with one, focused goal instead of leaving them to wander a site full of distractions.

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.

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.

Recharge is the leading Shopify subscription solution for online businesses. It makes it easy to transform one-time products into subscription options.

Helpscout is a customer-centric customer support solution. Use it to connect multiple emails to one single platform and collate all customer queries in one place. Build an extensive database of customer how-to's and resources, and dynamically share those resources via a sleek chat bot.

accessiBe is a web Accessibility Solution for WCAG Compliance (web content accessibility guidelines). The accessibility interface is responsible for all the UI and design-related adjustments, while the AI-powered background process handles optimizations for screen-reader and for keyboard navigation

Shoplift is Shopify's first fully integrated conversion optimization platform. Convert browsers into buyers with A/B testing and personalization beyond your wildest theme.

Nosto is an eCommerce solution that allows marketers to deliver personalized shopping experiences to their customers. The Nosto engine is able to predict - and automatically deliver - the most relevant experiences to customers in real-time to increase customer engagement and maximize revenue.

VWO is a conversion optimization solution. From VWO you can run A/B tests, and alter the look of parts of your website, without altering the code. Use funnels, heatmaps and session recordings to understand your shoppers’ hesitations better, which will help you generate stronger A/B testing ideas.

Heap is an analytics tool that automatically captures all user data on your site. A single snippet grabs every click, swipe, tap and pageview. Heap lets you learn everything about your customers: Who they are, what they do on your site and what actions correlate with conversion & retention.

Segment is a Customer Data Platform (CDP). They provide a service that simplifies collecting and using data from the users of your digital properties (websites, apps, etc). With Segment, you can collect, transform, send, and archive your first-party customer data.

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.

Elevar is a dynamic data and tracking tool available that facilitates the seamless expansion of Shopify/Shopify Plus brands through server-side tracking capabilities. By providing D2C brands with an optimal method to gather maximum accurate 1st party data and transmit this data back to marketing channels, Elevar enables marketing platforms to operate more effectively, resulting in reduced customer acquisition costs and increased return on ad spend.

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.

Often paired with the React framework Next.js - Vercel is the best place to deploy any frontend app. Start by deploying with zero configuration to our global edge network. Scale dynamically to millions of pages without breaking a sweat.

Yieldify is an onsite personalization platform for global businesses. Get in-depth data on your audience behaviors, engage customers with tailored onsite content and drive higher marketing ROI.

Sanity.io is the platform for structured content. With Sanity.io you can manage your text, images, and other media with APIs. You can also use the open-source single page application Sanity Studio to quickly set up an editing environment that you can customize.

Shopify is a commerce platform that allows anyone to set up an online store and sell their products. It's the go-to eCommerce platform for young direct-to-consumer brands. It's ease of use and setup is what's most attractive to merchants, but also the incredibly vast Shopify app store.