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Retail & commerce · Hybrid (walk-in + online)

Walk-in stays warm. Online wakes them up.

UK retailers running walk-in + Shopify together — unified stock, click-and-collect attach, store as warehouse.

Single + online
+ online
Or WooCommerce
Click-and-collect attach
Hybrid Single + onlineMulti-store + onlineShopify Or WooCommerce8% → 17% Click-and-collect attach
The hybrid retail (walk-in + online) stack

Six instruments, calibrated.

UK retailers running walk-in + Shopify together — unified stock, click-and-collect attach, store as warehouse. The till and the storefront looking at the same number.

01 · Unified stock (Shopify + POS)

One number, online and on the floor.

Shopify POS or Lightspeed wired into the storefront. The product page shows live stock from the till. The till sees online holds before they hit the floor. No oversells, no awkward refunds.

  • Shopify POS + storefront sync
  • Live stock on PDP
  • Online-hold awareness on till
  • Oversell prevention
02 · Click-and-collect attach

Online order, walk-in pickup, second sale.

Confirmed in 60 seconds, ready-for-collection SMS within the hour, friendly upsell at the counter when they collect. Click-and-collect not as a feature — as a footfall engine.

  • 60-second order confirmation
  • Ready-for-collection SMS
  • Counter-side upsell prompt
  • Pickup-window scheduling
03 · Store-as-warehouse

Ship from the closest store.

Online orders fulfilled from whichever site has the stock and the postcode advantage. Less central warehouse, more rotation across the estate. Slow stock leaves the slow store.

  • Postcode-aware fulfilment
  • Per-site fulfilment scoring
  • Picker workflow on iPad
  • Carrier label automation
04 · Cross-channel customer record

One customer, every channel.

Walked in last week, bought online today, DM'd Insta yesterday — same record. Loyalty accrues across channels, support sees the full thread, marketing knows what they actually bought.

  • Unified customer profile
  • Cross-channel accrual
  • Full purchase + comms thread
  • GDPR-clean consent
05 · Channel attribution

Which channel actually paid the rent?

Online traffic that walked in. Walk-in browsers that bought online later. Insta DMs that closed at the till. Attribution that doesn't pretend the last click owns it.

  • First-touch + last-touch
  • Walk-in to online crossover
  • DM-to-purchase tracking
  • Per-channel margin
06 · BrainBase

One brain, online and on the floor.

Product info, sizing, care, returns policy — searchable from the till and surfaced as PDP copy. The same answer at the counter and on the website. Returns drop, conversion lifts.

  • Product knowledge base
  • PDP copy generation
  • Returns + sizing FAQs
  • AI-assisted retrieval
Sample engagement

The three-site UK retailer that doubled click-and-collect attach.

Three stores plus Shopify. Stock counted twice. Click-and-collect attach stuck at 8%.

A three-site UK retailer ran Shopify on the website and Lightspeed on the floor with a nightly stock sync that broke twice a week. Online customers chose delivery because click-and-collect felt slow. Two-week build: live stock between Shopify and Lightspeed, 60-second collection confirmation, ready-for-pickup SMS, counter-side upsell prompt on collection. Six months in: click-and-collect attach more than doubled to 17%, with measurable upsell revenue at the counter.

How we measure: Click-and-collect attach = collection orders / total online orders, rolling 8-week vs prior 8-week baseline; counter upsell measured against pickup-event purchase data across 2,184 collections in the post-build window.

8% → 17%click-and-collect attach
+£42kcounter upsell, six months
1 stockledger across 4 channels
Adjacent industries

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Connect the channels.

Bring the Shopify export, the POS report, and a week of click-and-collect orders. We diagnose from the numbers.