Certified Shopify Online Garden Center platform launches
A24 Consulting has announced the official launch of The Certified Shopify Online Garden Center, a comprehensive, fully managed, direct-to-consumer selling and marketing platform for all local garden center businesses.
The Certified Shopify Online Garden Center answers the question every garden center owner is asking: “How do I add an e-commerce revenue stream to supplement my brick-and-mortar sales and make the most money with the least amount of hassle?” A24 Consulting has created a unified commerce stack that provides any local plant seller with a world-class solution for a new daily revenue stream without hours and hours of staff input.
Created to embrace the business model evolution of a local garden center and designed for product selling in 2025, each online store is a turnkey, hands-off solution branded for the local retailer.
This comprehensive system comes with:
- A fully developed and branded ShopifyPlus store
- Completely merchandised store with a 52-week assortment of gardening products direct-to-consumer fulfilled from best-in-class vendors, including ongoing seasonal management and product introductions
- Managed email marketing to the retailer’s email list designed to provide a daily revenue stream
- Personalized customer service tailored to each individual store
When creating this system, A24 Consulting cofounders Clint Albin and Katie Elzer-Peters realized that they couldn’t just provide two or three parts of the ecommerce equation. They needed to handle the entire operation from start to finish in order to fulfill their mission: to reverse the loss of local plant retail businesses.
Harnessing the power of Shopify, each Certified Shopify Online Garden Center is fully merchandised by growers, fulfillers and manufacturers including:
- Cavano’s Perennials
- CobraHead Tools
- Costa Farms
- Easy to Grow Bulbs
- Gardener’s Supply Co.
- Hoffman Nursery
- Live Good Logistics
- Monrovia
- Oasis Forage
- Organic Plant Magic
- The Holland Group
- The Sill
This supplier network spans the country and can provide an “endless aisle” for independent garden retailers. It’s a phenomenal way to fill in gaps in inventory and provide on-site special ordering for customers.
Paired with managed marketing via the highest-rated enterprise digital marketing conversion platform, Bloomreach, and with customer care handled by A24 through the established customer service platform Gorgias, any local garden center can have access to a year-round weatherproof revenue stream for $3,500 per year plus a 10% transaction fee on sales.
Retail garden centers can learn more by visiting A24 Consulting’s website and schedule a discovery call. View the flagship demo site, Laurel & Bee Garden and Goods.
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