CASE STUDY

How one global brand boosted AOV 48%

The impact of Tulip Clienteling on creating a consistent brand experience at scale

Brand background

Brand vision

The globally renowned luxury brand has over 900 stores across 3 continents.

A key part of the brand’s values is a dedication to providing an exceptional customer experience both for customers that are in-store, and those shopping across digital channels, and doing so consistently on a global scale.

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Why Tulip

The toolkit

Tulip Clienteling empowers the luxury retailer’s world-class brand experience in three main areas— emotionally memorable in-store experiences, omnichannel engagement, and global brand consistency. 

Tulip Clienteling helps them optimize their customer experience strategy, adapt to diverse customer needs, and gain visibility into the effectiveness of their clienteling strategies.

How Tulip Clienteling empowers the brand

Emotionally memorable experiences

The brand’s associates are trained to listen to their customers and learn about their individual needs and preferences in order to build personal relationships and create emotionally memorable experiences.

They leverage Tulip Clienteling to store each customer's unique information, such as their color, fabric, and style preferences, their birthday or anniversary, and their past purchases. Through Tulip Clienteling, every associate is equipped with access to this information. This allows them to provide personalized recommendations and create experiences that are tailored to each customer's style and taste.

Cohesive omnichannel engagement

For the brand, omnichannel is about collaboration, communication, and education.

Tulip Clienteling unifies customer data across channels and enables all associates to collaborate to continuously update this customer information. With this centralized information, associates can create cohesive personalized experiences for customers no matter where the interaction is taking place.

Tulip Clienteling also records preferred communication channels, enabling associates to communicate with customers in the way they want, whether through email, WhatsApp, phone calls, or something else.

The brand’s omnichannel experience ensures that everyone is educated on cross-channel offerings. Customers can receive text messages about sales and then transition to in-store shopping to make a purchase, or visa versa, allowing them to continue their shopping journey on their own terms.

“Tulip Clienteling helps capture customer-specific likes and dislikes and then allows for the teams to connect with the customer around those specific preferences.

- Manager of Omnichannel Customer Development  -

“Omnichannel is all about meeting the customer where they want to shop. You're then offering experiences to the customer, no matter where the product is sold to them at.”

Manager of Omnichannel Customer Development

“What's important is celebrating and expressing the company's values because those things are going to transcend borders, that's going to help increase brand loyalty.”

- Manager of Omnichannel Customer Development  -

Consistent global brand experiences

Having a large global presence, the brand also uses Tulip Clienteling to navigate local differences and ensure a consistent customer experience in their stores around the world.

Tulip Clienteling makes customer information, such as purchase history and preferences, accessible to associates with just the customer's name from anywhere in the world. This enables them to provide a highly personalized experience to a customer from Singapore who is visiting their Los Angeles store for the first time.

Tulip Clienteling also enables them with the customers’ communication channel preference, so that they will get a post-purchase follow-up to their WhatsApp messenger, if that’s their preference.

The Tulip impact

The integration of Tulip Clienteling has yielded significant results, particularly evident in the enthusiastic reception from store teams who have fully embraced the new technology and share success stories regularly.

“What I'm hearing from the teams [is] matching what I'm seeing in the reporting. I regularly temp check with the teams and collect many success stories.”

 Manager of Omnichannel Customer

“When you have that personal touch within outreach, you're going to see an increased conversion. We see that increased conversion over just mass outreach.”

 Manager of Omnichannel Customer

Measuring the success of Tulip Clienteling

The brand measures the success of Tulip Clienteling through the key metric of Tulip Influenced Sales (TIS), which represents sales made as a direct result of outreach conducted through the Tulip Clienteling app. 

TIS has increased as a portion of total sales by 68% in the last 12 months.

Not only are influenced sales on the rise, but they are more valuable than regular sales. TIS average order value (AOV) is 48% higher on average than regular sales for the past 2 years.

On average, the brand’s TIS has increased 73% from 2023 to 2024, which reflects an increased adoption of Tulip Clienteling.

This indicates that personalized clienteling efforts lead to more successful outcomes. This data enables associates to see the impact of their outreach and encourages usage of the tool. 

Additionally, analyzing qualitative feedback from associates helps identify gaps and opportunities for improvement in Tulip Clienteling. This feedback allows the platform to evolve to meet changing customer needs, ensuring memorable experiences. So, by partnering with Tulip, the brand can remain agile and adaptable to customer demands without needing to purchase a separate tool or build their own updates.

“Influence sales with Tulip and our measurement of influence sales, through our email and texting efforts, we've seen an increase in those.

 Manager of Omnichannel Customer

About

Tulip is the world’s largest cloud-based retail customer engagement platform provider, with best-in-class Clienteling and POS capabilities that let retailers realize the full potential of omnichannel commerce. The world’s most iconic retailers like David Yurman, Versace, Jimmy Choo, Mulberry, Saks Fifth Avenue, Ferragamo, COACH, and Michael Kors use Tulip to modernize the shopping experience, creating personalized shopping journeys that increase sales and improve customer loyalty across channels. Partnered with Apple and Salesforce, Tulip enables retailers to build deeply personal connections with customers, fulfill orders, close out purchases, and maximize store associate productivity and performance.