Industries · Retail and e-commerce

Retail engagement that remembers who your customers are.

Abandoned carts, one-off buyers and loyalty data nobody uses. Retailers across Africa fix that by personalising web, app and WhatsApp, and measuring what it earns.

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THE PROBLEM

What costs you sales

01

Abandoned carts and browses

People get as far as the checkout and leave. Without a timely, relevant nudge, most never come back.

02

One-time buyers

The first order costs the most to win, and too many customers never place a second.

03

Online and in-store don't talk

The same customer is two people: one on your website, one at the till.

04

Loyalty data sitting idle

You collect points and purchase history, then send everyone the same catalogue.

05

Discounts as the only lever

When the only tool is a voucher, your margin pays for every campaign.

WHERE WE HELP

Where we help

01

Recovery journeys

Abandoned cart, abandoned browse and back-in-stock messages across push, email, SMS and WhatsApp.

02

A personalised site and app

Product recommendations and content based on what each customer looks at and buys.

03

One customer profile

Online orders, store purchases and loyalty joined into one view, so offers fit the person.

04

Knowing what works

Checkout funnels in product analytics, campaign attribution, and trading dashboards for the business.

PLATFORMS WE'D CONSIDER

The platforms we'd look at first.

Partners we'd look at first for retail. Which one fits depends on your channels, your data and your team.

Enterprise CDP

Enterprise customer data platform with AI-driven identity resolution. Amperity stitches messy first-party data from every system into one accurate, always-fresh customer profile. That gives your engagement and BI tools a golden record they can trust.

Best forEnterprises with customer data fragmented across many systems and no reliable single view of the customer.

Learn more about Amperity

Product Analytics

Product analytics built for product teams. Funnels, retention, cohort analysis, feature adoption, for product and growth teams that need answers without filing a ticket. Designed to sit alongside GA4, not replace it.

Best forProduct and growth teams who want funnel, retention and adoption answers without waiting on an analyst.

Learn more about Amplitude

BI & Visualisation

Real-time BI and data visualisation with 1,000+ pre-built connectors. Enterprise-grade security, governance and scale, with an interface non-technical stakeholders can use from day one.

Best forMid-market to enterprise with data spread across multiple systems and a leadership team tired of waiting.

Learn more about DOMO

CEP + AI Personalisation + CDP

AI-native cross-channel engagement, Insider One AI adds predictive and agentic intelligence, plus a built-in CDP and deep on-site personalisation, across 12+ channels including WhatsApp and site search. Built for retail, e-commerce, and travel, where the website experience matters as much as the message.

Best forCompanies where website experience, AI-driven personalisation, and customer comms must work as one: retail, e-commerce, travel.

Learn more about InsiderOne

Mid-market CEP · Push-first

The fast, developer-friendly step up from Firebase. Fast, reliable push alongside email, SMS and in-app, from a single platform. It takes days to implement and your marketers can run it themselves.

Best forScaling apps and lean teams that need speed to value.

Learn more about OneSignal

WORTH KNOWING

Consent that travels with the customer

Data-protection laws such as South Africa's POPIA have specific rules for direct marketing, and they often differ for existing customers and new prospects. We set platforms up so each customer's consent sits on their profile and every channel respects it.

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FAQS

The questions people ask us first.

Do we need a CDP, or will our engagement platform do?

It depends on how many systems hold customer data. If it is mostly your online store, an engagement platform with built-in profiles may be enough. If stores, loyalty and online all keep their own records, a CDP is worth it.

Can we personalise the website, not just emails?

Yes. Some engagement platforms, InsiderOne for one, personalise the site itself with recommendations and dynamic content.

We already send order updates on WhatsApp. What else?

Abandoned carts, back-in-stock alerts and win-back offers can go there too, as long as people have opted in to marketing messages.

Where would our customer data be stored?

Many of these platforms host outside Africa, often in the EU or the US. Data-protection laws such as South Africa's POPIA allow that if it's handled properly, and it's one of the first things we check with you.

OTHER WAYS WE CAN HELP

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Talk to us about your customers.

Tell us where customers drop off or go quiet. We'll point you to the first fix.