thread Revamping my Online Store in Retail & eCommerce

Revamping my Online Store

JUYBoutique20 — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 03:19:12 GMT

One of our primary objectives this year is to revamp our online store to ensure it aligns more cohesively with our physical storefront. I want visitors to our website to feel as they are stepping into our actual store. To achieve this, I envision featuring images of myself, my family, and friends showcasing our products. When you created or revamped site, what was the most important aspect you wanted to provide for your customers?

Re: Revamping my Online Store

DinaLRosenberg — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 02:45:57 GMT

Honestly- ease of navigation- simplicity and cleanliness of design- and speed to get items up and listed

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Twpchair — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 12:37:38 GMT

When I ordered from you, I found it extremely easy to navigate through all your items. I need to get back on there. There were a few purses and shirts I loved. Your shipping and communication are top-notch and extremely fast. I guess from what you posted and your vision imo I do like to see different outfits actually on people. I am a very visual person. With different styles and body types of those you use from small - 2x. If it catches my eye from the tops, pants, and shoes plus a nice handbag. I will tend to buy the whole lot. Yes, I have a huge problem with clothes, purses, and shoes 😆 besides that I found it very cute, well organized, and easy to find what I'm looking for. The friends and family video of shopping and trying on clothes would be a huge plus and shows off all you have to offer from jewelry to all your other items. I look at other more upscale boutique stores like yours and they don't offer all the different items you do. I don't think you need a total overhaul by any means fine fine-tune a few things make it more personable by adding in your pretend shoppers and I think you would be all set. Half the stuff I was looking at was sold out! So you must be doing something right. Good luck with it all. Let us know when it's done I would love to check it out.

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VanKalkerFarms — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:48:15 GMT

I love it when a small business keeps advertising in-house and they are the models and have family involved. It takes a lot to put yourself out there, but that is what makes your brand yours is that it features you. People who know you will recognize and feel a closer connection.

Keep navigation clean and photos of products and you can even show accessories that go with the set.

Re: Revamping my Online Store

JUYBoutique20 — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 02:45:12 GMT

Thanks so much. That means so much to me. Yes, since we moved to our new location, we've been selling a lot more so I'm so excited and proud of the new journey. I'll let you know when we start the tweaks.

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JUYBoutique20 — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 02:45:55 GMT

Thanks so much for the advice. I really appreciate it.

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JUYBoutique20 — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 02:46:33 GMT

Thanks for the input. I really appreciate it.

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rtfulk — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 04:25:10 GMT

We are in the process of revamping our website also. We are also wanting to add more models, our problem is making our vision come to life.

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doc_choc — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 13:44:13 GMT

Visual and language tone coherence between physical and online stores help strengthen the brand.

Omni Channel marketing, try to offer the same offers and prices in store and online. Customers may visit your store then go home to purchase online.

For our online store we just wanted to make shopping as easy as possible. Cut the clutter get straight to the products. Easier said than done sometimes.

Re: Revamping my Online Store

DinaLRosenberg — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 14:17:16 GMT

When it comes to clothing, I like to see multiple images of the item- flat lay and on people- I think it could be super fun to have a seasonal carousel of products with the lead image shot being your models... You can also list the products on the website in the bottom with shown styled with x, y, z product with links to them.

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JUYBoutique20 — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 18:54:46 GMT

I love the idea of the seasonal carousel. It could even be a collection drop carousel. Thanks so much for your feedback.

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JUYBoutique20 — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 19:03:29 GMT

I definitely keep my prices the same in-store and online because I have customer who order and use our pickup option. I usually run the same special both instore and online, but I do mix it up for specific online shopping days like Cyber Monday. Thanks so much for your feedback.

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JUYBoutique20 — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 19:05:51 GMT

Are you having a problem finding models? What's making it difficult for your vision to come to life?

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rtfulk — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 20:25:41 GMT

we sell children’s clothing so it is really hard find models, we have only had 2 choices, have our customers send in photos, which to be honest are usually pretty crappy or pay som time to model our clothes. I have found solution number 3 which I am working on now. I have trained ChatGPT with prompts to create AI models with our clothing. This has worked out great for us because now we can have diverse group of kids on our website. I have been slowly building out our models so hopefully I will be updating our site soon. Below are some of my AI models and I can animate them. This makes life a lot easier.

What these make my vision hard is I know how I want my site laid out, Square doesn’t really let you do your own design layout you have to use templates.

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JUYBoutique20 — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 20:55:31 GMT

I love your photos...How did you train AI for the pics? Did you load pics of your customers, or did you tell it what you wanted? Also have you had any problems with AI changing the colors a bit on your outfits?

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rtfulk — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 21:23:25 GMT

The hardest part was getting ChatGPT to realize the photos of the clothing I uploaded were mine and not some copyrighted photos I had stolen. I trained it in prompts.

Here are the prompts I used.

Boys: when I type AI boy, I want a boy about 5 or 6, I want them in the photo I upload, make a boyish pose, use a similar background to my description

Infant Boy: when I type AI boy infant, I want a boy about 12-18 months, I want them in the photo I upload, make a boyish pose, use a similar background to my description

Girls: when I type AI girl, I want a girl about 5 or 6, I want them in the photo I upload, make a girlish pose, use a similar background to my description

Infant Girl: when I type AI girl infant, I want a girl about 12-18 months, I want them in the photo I upload, make a girlish pose, use a similar background to my description

For the groups I just uploaded the clothing photos I wanted to use, then the correct prompt.

You can also animate them.

(view in My Videos)

Re: Revamping my Online Store

eatunicookies — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 19:14:28 GMT

We ran into the same frustration of the limited use of Square's/Weebly's web design tools and opted out to Shopify. Wix, although we don't use it, has improved their static templates and now offer ease drag-and-drop customization. Square's overall system is focused on one shop at a time in the town or city you're operating in. Shopify is geared to online sales and growth.

Great job training Chat! I love what you're able to accomplish. Are you using the base model @ $20/mo?

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rtfulk — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 20:29:17 GMT

We had a Shopify store before moving to Square. We did have more traffic using Shopify, but inventory syncing was a total nightmare.

I'm using the 20.00 a month plan, and it is 100% worth every penny. The things you can do blow my mind, and the ability to just have a conversation to learn about different things is unreal.

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eatunicookies — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 20:48:09 GMT

What was your issue with your inventory?

Did you use the Shopify spreadsheet template, or uploaded one by one?

What's the size of the inventory you were experiencing this challenge with? Are you using automation tools (AI tools) to troubleshoot platform differences?

Indeed! After training a few threads our content, offers, and services definitely look different than when we started. Our echo system included both Square and Shopify. At this time we have more than 50 products, 20 offers, and 6 services - still growing as we explore and collaborate.

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rtfulk — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 21:06:54 GMT

We have over 1,000 items and over 6,000 skus, we were using a 3rd party to sync our inventory. Sometimes it worked great, sometimes not so great.