What are Hoop Online Stores and who should use them?
Hoop Online Stores connect your shopping experiences directly to the same CRM that manages your marketing, sales, and service. This powerful unification is ideal for businesses that want to personalize the customer journey from first browsing to post-purchase support.
It is specifically designed for companies needing a platform that can handle global scale, offer flexibility through headless architecture, and integrate commerce data seamlessly with customer profiles to maximize conversion and lifetime value. It enables rapid iteration using composable building blocks across all sales channels.
How does the Online Stores feature ensure global scale and reliability?
Hoop Online Stores are built for high availability, ensuring uptime even during peak seasons and major product launches. The platform provides essential capabilities for international commerce, allowing you to expand confidently.
Key features for global operations include:
- Multi-site management with localized product catalogs.
- Support for multi-currency pricing and region-specific taxes.
- High reliability infrastructure engineered for traffic spikes.
This structure helps manage complex global operations from a single, unified Hoop platform.
Does the Hoop Online Stores feature support a headless commerce architecture?
Yes, the Hoop Online Stores solution is designed to be composable and flexible, fully supporting headless commerce. You can use APIs and SDKs to power custom front-end experiences across various touchpoints.
This allows you to adopt headless APIs to deliver unique web, mobile app, and in-store kiosk experiences. By swapping components without requiring a full replatforming, you ensure your technology stack keeps pace with your business growth and evolving customer expectations.
How can I personalize shopping experiences using my CRM data?
Personalization is driven by leveraging your unified CRM data, including customer profiles, segments, and behavioral history. This deep integration allows you to move beyond basic recommendations.
You can use this data to:
- Recommend products and content dynamically based on current and past behavior.
- Trigger automated marketing journeys based on browsing and purchase events.
- Apply sophisticated testing and merchandising rules to fine-tune conversion rates and increase customer lifetime value.
This CRM-driven approach ensures every customer interaction is relevant and timely.
What pricing plans include access to the Online Stores feature?
The Online Stores feature is available across multiple tiers of the Hoop platform, ensuring it can accommodate businesses of varying sizes and complexities. Access starts with the Core plan and scales up through the Pro and Enterprise plans.
The core tier provides foundational e-commerce capabilities and CRM syncing. As you move to Pro and Enterprise, you gain access to more advanced functionalities, such as enhanced global scaling features, higher API limits for headless deployments, and dedicated support necessary for large-volume operations.
What merchandising and search capabilities are included in the platform?
The Hoop platform includes advanced merchandising and search tools to help you optimize product discovery and performance. These tools give you granular control over how products are displayed and found by customers.
Merchandising features include:
- Curating product collections and bundles aligned with specific marketing campaigns.
- Boosting, burying, and pinning search results to shape product discovery based on business priorities.
- A/B testing various layouts and content copy to improve key performance indicators (KPIs) directly within the search experience.