Loyalty data, on demand: Smile launches its Sidekick App Extension for Shopify. Smile's new Sidekick app extension is live for Shopify merchants. Loyalty data that merchants already track in Smile like repeat purchase rate, member LTV, VIP status, point redemption, and referral revenue, can now be queried in conversation with Shopify's AI assistant, directly from the admin. For mid-market and enterprise Shopify Plus brands, that turns a multi-step loyalty analytics review into a single question. What Smile's Sidekick App Extension does for Shopify merchants. Smile's Sidekick App Extension lets Shopify and Shopify Plus merchants query their loyalty program data directly through Shopify's AI assistant, Sidekick. At launch, merchants can ask Sidekick how their loyalty program is performing across five areas: business growth, performance benchmarks, customer segments, points activity, and referrals. That covers loyalty-driven revenue, Smile ROI, points redemption rates, how members compare to non-members on AOV and purchase frequency, monthly points activity, and referral revenue and conversion rates. Examples of what merchants can ask Sidekick: * "What's my loyalty-driven revenue over the last 30 days?" * "How do my members compare to non-members on customer lifetime value?" * "What's my points redemption rate, and is it healthy?" * "What's my referral revenue this month?" Sidekick returns answers in natural language, with the merchant's currency, a data freshness timestamp, and contextual notes when part of the program isn't active. "Every brand on Shopify now has a loyalty copilot. With Smile's Sidekick App Extension, merchants can ask why repeat purchase rate moved last week, surface their top loyalty insights, or understand exactly how their program is performing all without leaving Shopify." - Mike Rossi, CEO & Co-Founder, Smile Why Shopify Sidekick matters for enterprise and Shopify Plus merchants. For enterprise teams running loyalty at scale, the value shows up in speed and convenience. Rich data - rarely accessible - is now just a question away in the Shopify admin. Strategy leaders can pressure-test program performance during a meeting. Marketing executives can check whether a new VIP tier is impacting customer behavior before signing off on a campaign. The people closest to the customer can ask directly, instead of waiting on an analyst to pull a report. It also means loyalty data finally lives where the rest of a merchant's Shopify decisions are made. No context-switching into a separate analytics tool. Sidekick pulls loyalty insight into the same flow as everything else in the store admin. Get loyalty insights inside Shopify with Smile for Shopify Plus. Smile's enterprise team works with leading brands to help rethink how loyalty fits into their broader growth stack: from program design to data activation across Shopify. If your team is exploring what an AI-native loyalty program looks like, book time with its enterprise team.

Subtotal x Smile integration. Easily reward customers for purchases they make at Walmart, Amazon, Target, and other retailers. Cole Wilkes Co-Founder and CEO Subtotal, Inc. partnered with Smile to make it easier for merchants to reward customers for buying their products from major retailers. Take a look at its integration docs to get started. Its partners at Smile recently wrote a great piece on why omnichannel loyalty matters. Subtotal, Inc. has made that case a few times ourselves, in How Shoppers Think and The Future of Loyalty. So this post isn't about why. It's about what's now possible. What changes. Historically, brands that wanted to reward retail purchases were limited to clunky, outdated methods like receipt scanning or printing codes on the inside of packaging. Yep, you read that right: inside the packaging.Subtotal, Inc. all know Gen Z isn't snapping pictures of receipts or typing alphanumeric codes from under a bottle cap. So what are they doing? They're making purchases with their retailer accounts. Now, customers can connect those accounts and earn points automatically. Two ways to reward. The integration adds two earning methods to your Smile program. * Points for linking a retail account. Reward customers the moment they connect a retailer like Target, Walmart, or Amazon. A linked account is a verified buyer, and the start of a relationship. That's worth rewarding on its own. * Points for every qualifying purchase. Award points per dollar spent at the retailers you choose. You set the rate, pick which retailers qualify, and money spent on your products is converted to points automatically. The points show up in the customer's Smile activity feed, right next to their online orders. One identity. One balance. One program. It just works. There's nothing new for your members to learn. They keep shopping the way they already do. When someone links a retailer account and makes a qualifying purchase, Subtotal applies your earning rules and awards the points in real time. No app to download, no extra step at checkout, and certainly no need for a paper receipt. Getting started. Get started today by signing up for Subtotal and following the steps in its integration docs. If you prefer some white-glove treatment, or you'd like to see the integration in action first, book a demo with its team.