Beyond the App Stack: How Untoxicated Found Flexibility, Lower Costs, and Higher Retention with SHOPLINE

Our brand is built on education, trust, and clinical credibility—so our ecommerce experience has to reflect that. SHOPLINE has given us the flexibility to better communicate our standards, simplify our tech stack, and create a more seamless experience to convert and retain customers as we continue to grow.

Annie Meyer
Co-Founder

Customer Overview

Untoxicated isn't a typical skincare brand. Built around a double board-certified Allergist's formulations, it's the first brand to eliminate the ingredients responsible for 99%+ of skin reactions — and its customers, most of them dealing with sensitive, eczema-prone, or reactive skin, take that clinical standard seriously.

That trust has to carry through every touchpoint, including the online store. When Untoxicated outgrew what Shopify could offer — too many apps, too little storefront control, too much friction — they moved to SHOPLINE to build the kind of experience their brand actually demands.

Challenge

Before SHOPLINE, Untoxicated faced several key challenges with its Shopify operation:

  • Limited flexibility in designing and updating the storefront
  • Heavy reliance on third-party apps for core functionality
  • Rising platform and app costs reducing efficiency
  • Operational complexity from disconnected tools
  • Insufficient social commerce capabilities to improve marketing performance and conversion
  • No dedicated support — troubleshooting meant tickets, help docs, and waiting

The brand wanted a platform that was easy to build and manage while flexible enough to grow without constant rebuilds or custom development.

Why SHOPLINE

Untoxicated chose SHOPLINE for the storefront flexibility, the native toolset that reduced app reliance and cost, and the hands-on support that made migration feel manageable — not like a gamble. The goal was a platform that could unify content and commerce in one place, letting the brand iterate quickly without rebuilding from scratch every time the business evolved.

Solution

Untoxicated completed a smooth, low-risk migration from Shopify to SHOPLINE with full technical and strategic support from the SHOPLINE team.

The brand leveraged:

  • A flexible theme editor to quickly iterate design and messaging without heavy development
  • Native CRO tools to streamline testing, optimization and conversion improvements
  • Built-in features including Smart Landing Page Builder, Product Bundles & Upsells, and Member System
  • A customized subscription structure to support recurring revenue and customer retention

The SHOPLINE team handled the heavy lifting — Untoxicated never had to take their eyes off the business.

Subscription as a Core Part of the Business

Why Subscription

For Untoxicated, subscriptions aren't a growth hack — they're a natural extension of how the products work. Sensitive and reactive skin needs consistency, and consistency is easier when customers aren't remembering to reorder. The subscription model fits the way the community actually uses the products, and it creates the kind of predictable recurring revenue that lets a DTC brand plan ahead.

Migration Experience

Moving the subscription program to a new platform was the part of the migration that required the most care. The SHOPLINE team didn't just lift and shift — they helped design a program built around how Untoxicated's customers actually behave, with flexibility, self-management, and long-term retention at the center of it. The process felt collaborative rather than transactional, and that made the difference in building confidence around the switch.

Performance & Impact

Customers are staying consistent with their routines, staying in control of their subscriptions, and the team spends less time managing the backend and more time growing the business. That translates to stronger lifetime value, better retention, and a more predictable revenue base — all things that compound as the brand scales.

Using the Subscription App

The SHOPLINE Subscription App is flexible, intuitive, and well-suited for routine-based skincare. The SHOPLINE Subscription App features that Untoxicated relies on most:

  • Clean storefront integration that doesn't feel bolted on
  • Subscriber self-management
  • Simplified backend that runs without constant oversight
  • Flexible frequency, discount, and cadence settings that let customers build a subscription around their own skin routine — not a one-size-fits-all approach

Results

Since migrating to SHOPLINE, Untoxicated has moved faster, spent less on tools, and converted more.

  • +1% Conversion Rate Lift — within the first month of going live and sustained month over month
  • +18% Increase in Average Order Value — a direct reflection of SHOPLINE's native Bundles & Upsells working as intended
  • +47% Increase in Returning Customer Rate — proof that the platform is supporting long-term retention

And when questions came up — during migration and after go-live — there was an actual person to call. For a brand that had grown used to ticket queues and help docs, having a dedicated SHOPLINE contact made the transition feel less like a risk and more like a partnership.

With streamlined operations and a more unified commerce setup, Untoxicated is now able to focus on what matters most: the customer experience, conversion, and long-term growth.

Looking Ahead

For Untoxicated, the next chapter is about depth, not just reach. A growing subscription base, stronger customer lifetime value, and a storefront that can educate as well as it converts. With the operational overhead handled, the team can get back to what built the brand in the first place: the science, the trust, and the skin.

Industry
Non-allergenic Skincare
SHOPLINE Solutions
SHOPLINE eCommerce
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