Case study · Flooring retail
Stories Flooring

A scattered stack, turned into one connected system.

Marketing, sales and service unified in HubSpot for Stories Flooring, with Shopify kept in place, so the team can finally see the full customer picture in one place.

3
tools replaced: Klaviyo, Mailchimp, Gorgias
1
customer record across every team
Kept
Shopify, integrated rather than replaced
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Sector
Flooring retail and ecommerce
Engagement
HubSpot implementation
Hubs
Marketing, Sales, Service
Work
CRM, migration, Shopify, reporting
The situation

The tools were working against each other.

Stories Flooring ran a fragmented stack across Shopify, Klaviyo, Mailchimp and Gorgias. Customer data, marketing activity, sales follow-up and service queries all lived in different systems.

The result was operational drag, duplicated effort across tools and, worse, no clear answers. The team couldn’t easily see a customer’s lifecycle, their history or the right next step, because no single system held the whole story.

Flooring is a considered purchase. The follow-up has to be joined up.

What we did

One connected HubSpot revenue system, with Shopify kept in place.

Four disconnected tools became one system, owned by the team.

01
HubSpot CRM setup

Custom properties and sales pipelines that reflect how the business actually sells.

02
Marketing Hub

Replacing Klaviyo and Mailchimp: email automation, segmentation and landing pages in one place.

03
Service Hub

Replacing Gorgias: ticket pipelines, live chat and support automation, joined to the same record.

04
Shopify integration

Ecommerce transactions kept intact, with order-to-deal cloning for visibility.

05
Reporting and go-live

Dashboards across marketing, sales and service, plus training and go-live support so the system is theirs.

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The stack, rationalised
4 → 1
disconnected tools, one system

Klaviyo, Mailchimp and Gorgias consolidated into HubSpot. Shopify integrated rather than replaced, so the store keeps running while the customer record comes together.

What changed for the team.

1

connected system: three tools consolidated into HubSpot, Shopify kept where it belongs.

1

view of the customer: lifecycle, history and next step in one place.

3

Hubs reporting, so decisions run on real numbers, not guesswork.

Less

tool-switching and duplicated work across marketing, sales and service.

Before
A fragmented stack across Shopify, Klaviyo, Mailchimp and Gorgias.
Customer data, marketing, sales follow-up and service queries all in different systems.
Operational drag, with duplicated effort across tools.
No single system holding the whole customer story.
After
One connected HubSpot revenue system, Shopify kept where it belongs.
Marketing, sales and service working off the same customer record.
Less tool-switching, less duplicated work.
Lifecycle, history and next steps, all in one place.

Customer data split across four tools?

One connected HubSpot system gives you back the full picture. Talk to Rikki about consolidating a scattered stack into one system your team can run.

Rikki Lear
Rikki LearCommercial Director