Slice of the Pie MarketingSlice of the Pie× The Caramel Tree
Prepared for The Caramel Tree · Q4 2026 storefront upgrade

Same store. Warmer room. Faster to buy from.

We pulled 90 days of live Shopify data, tore the storefront down page by page, and rebuilt the three pages that carry Q4: home, the apple collection and the Pick Your Perfect 4 product page. New white and gold look, your real logo, fonts and photos, and a cart that actually helps people finish. Nothing about checkout changes.

2.30%site conversion, last 90 days
54%of checkouts never finish
$71.56average order value
0.4%of traffic comes from email
What is in here

Three doors. Start anywhere.

01

The audit

Live numbers from your Shopify admin: the funnel, mobile vs desktop, load, product winners and losers, traffic mix, and the three friction points costing you orders right now.

Read the audit →
02

The concept

Home, collection and product page rebuilt in white and gold. Working flavor picker, pack sizes, one tap caramel add, and a cart drawer with a free shipping bar and cross sell. Open it on your phone.

Open the concept →
03

The Q4 game plan

Four weeks, in ship order. The AOV levers, the conversion fixes, the design system tokens, and the Klaviyo flows that should be live before October.

See the plan →
04

The rule we kept

No functional overhaul. Same Prestige theme, same checkout, same products. Every change is additive, so customers who know the store still know the store.

How it ships →
The concept

White and gold, built on your brand.

Your Garamond wordmark, your Jost, your gold and your engraved tree. We flipped the base from near black to warm cream, moved the buy box to the top, and put the caramels where people add them.

carameltree.sliceofthepie.co/site/product.html
The short version

Where the orders leak, and what we do about it.

1

Half of checkouts die at shipping

715 people reached checkout in 90 days. 331 paid. The $75 free shipping threshold covers the $99.99 apple packs and nothing else, so a $12 pouch pays $6.72 to $12.73 to ship and the $47.96 pouch bundle sits $27 short with nothing on the page saying so.

Fix: threshold to $65, a progress bar in the cart drawer and under the product price, pouches offered where the customer is already adding.
2

The buy box is 2,300px down the page

On desktop the add to cart button sits under the full description and seven flavor accordions, then asks for four dropdowns. Desktop converts 1.75% against 2.49% on mobile. That is backwards for a gifting brand.

Fix: title, stars, price, ship line, tap to pick flavor grid, add to cart. Description moves below the button. Sticky bar on scroll.
3

Email is 0.4% of traffic

Klaviyo is installed and firing 15% welcome codes on roughly one in four orders, but email sent 63 sessions in 90 days. In a gifting quarter that is the cheapest revenue on the table.

Fix: abandoned checkout, browse abandonment and a day 21 caramel reorder flow, live before October 1.

Full audit with the numbers →

Next step

Let's ship this before the apples do.

Thirty minutes to walk through the concept on your phone and lock the four week order.

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Slice of the Pie Marketing · Salem, Oregon · (503) 539-7059Prepared for The Caramel Tree · September 2026 · Data pulled live from Shopify on Sep 15