With thousands of apps available in the Shopify app store, the possibilities to power your pet store Ecommerce website are endless! However, the process of vetting, installing, testing, and implementing an app can be time consuming and technically challenging. New Media Retailer is the industry-leading pet store Ecommerce website provider on Shopify, so we decided to help independent pet stores cut through the noise and explain the most popular apps for pet stores on Shopify.
Bold Subscriptions
Chewy.com has 18,000,000 customers, most of those pet owners are on Autoship!
Bold Subscriptions gives you the flexibility to create a subscription offering that’s as simple or complex as you want, to help grow dependable recurring revenue and customer loyalty. The possibilities are limitless with Bold Subscriptions! You can setup custom subscription rules, onboarding flow, and brand your customer portal. Here are the main features pet stores can leverage by using this plugin for their Shopify website:
- Offer subscribe and save discounts – Increase conversions with an incentive to sign up, or boost retention by discounting future recurring orders.
- Configure different subscription intervals – Set weekly, monthly or annual delivery intervals – or let the customer select their own frequency.
- Subscriber self-management options – Allow customers to edit, pause, and skip upcoming orders, as well as swap products, change payment information, and adjust delivery dates.)
- Mixed cart checkout with one-time and recurring products – Create a seamless checkout experience by letting customers purchase both one-time and subscription products in the same transaction.
- Auto-branded customer portal – Automatically match your subscription management portal’s styling and navigation with your site’s CSS.
- Cancellation prevention – Reduce churn with custom cancellation flows that offer incentives to stay subscribed or alternatives to canceling, like pausing orders or discounts.
- Customizable email notifications – Send automated email updates to subscribers about changes to their subscription, customized to match your branding using HTML.
- Reduce involuntary churn with dunning management – Recover failed transactions due to incorrect or out of date credit card information with basic dunning management.
- Complete customer account management – Give your support team access to powerful customer management tools to edit and manage subscriber accounts.
- Top-rated support – Access expert installation services, live chat, and 24/7 support options to get your subscription up and running smoothly.
https://apps.shopify.com/bold-subscriptions
Astro Loyalty
Frequency programs give independent pet retailers a competitive advantage over big-box stores and online retailers. The Astro for Shopify app will help you promote and automate these programs online. Customers can link their Astro account by phone number or email, linking all online purchases to their Astro account. Offer your customers the convenience and benefits of buying online or in-store to get credit towards their frequency programs, loyalty points, and offers.
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Metastock – Select a Store
The missing location inventory feature is here!
Metastock exposes near real-time location inventory data on each product in your Shopify store. Metastock can show your stock levels at each location your customer is browsing from. The app will block the user from adding a product to their cart if that item is out of stock at the selected location, and will also disable the add to cart button if the user tries to add more than that store has in stock. Customers expect retailers to showcase their inventory per location online, Metastock makes that possible on Shopify!
https://apps.shopify.com/metastock
Google Shopping
Whether you are shipping pet food or just offering local pickup and delivery, you must take advantage of the free advertising Google is offering retailers. Shopify’s Google Shopping app allows you to integrate your online catalog with Google Merchant Center and your Google My Business listing, which sets you up to run Local Inventory Ads and Google Shopping Ads.
https://apps.shopify.com/google
Jotform
While not an app in the Shopify app store, Jotform is an extremely easy to use form builder that allows you to create and place a form’s code right onto a Shopify page. Independent pet stores offer in-store services to drive sales and foot traffic, opening up opportunities for cross-sells and upsells. Jotform is an easy to use site that allows you to setup lead generation and appointment requests for in-store services like grooming, boarding, daycare, and dog washes.