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// Google · Shopify & Shopify Plus · Email · Loyalty · CRO · Amazon · Advisory

NINE SERVICES,
ONE COMMERCIAL
SYSTEM.

Not a menu of options. A connected set of capabilities — each one feeding the next, all built around the commercial reality of your business. Margin, catalogue, channels, competition — your strategy is built around all of it.

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All businesses are different. Every engagement is bespoke.
Our dynamic blueprint and best practices are the foundation of everything we do — refined across £100M+ of e-commerce revenue. But your business is not a template. Your margins, your catalogue, your channels, your competitive position, your growth ambitions — all of it is specific to you. Before we recommend a single service, we map your commercial reality. The services below describe what we offer. The strategy we build describes what you actually need.
01
GOOGLE
SHOPPING
& SEARCH
// Shopify & Shopify Plus · CSS Partner · Free listings · Local Inventory Ads

Most Google Ads agencies manage campaigns. We manage commercial outcomes — and the difference is visible in every decision we make.

Our proprietary campaign architecture segments your entire catalogue by its commercial value — not just by spend or volume. Every product is placed where it should be, and moves as the data changes. The logic behind that architecture is built from 20 years of operating e-commerce businesses at scale. We don't publish the specifics — but you see the results in the numbers.

As a Google CSS Partner, every Shopping campaign we run saves you 20% on click costs from day one. That saving activates before we've changed a single bid or touched a single setting.

Before any campaign goes live, we do the commercial groundwork that most agencies skip. The targets we set, and the reasoning behind them, come from your numbers — not from platform defaults or what worked for someone else.

Google Shopping campaign architecture and management
Performance Max — properly configured with margin intelligence
Standard Shopping — granular bidding control for large catalogues
Local Inventory Ads — drive in-store footfall from online search for businesses with physical locations
Google Free Listings — organic Shopping presence maximised alongside paid campaigns
Google Search — brand and non-brand separation
CSS partnership — 20% click cost saving from day one
Break-even ROAS calculation and target setting
Shopify and Shopify Plus product feed audit, enrichment, and dynamic labelling via our proprietary feed management system
Negative keyword management and search term monitoring
Weekly optimisation, monthly reporting, and real-time dashboard
01
Commercial audit first
We calculate your true break-even ROAS from your real margins before touching a single campaign. Every target downstream is anchored to this number.
02
Feed audit & enrichment
Your product feed is audited for errors, missing attributes, and weak titles. We enrich it through our proprietary feed system so every product carries the data Google needs to serve it.
03
Dynamic labelling waterfall
Products are segmented by margin and performance into a labelling structure that routes budget automatically — high-margin winners scale, lossmakers are contained, new products get controlled exposure.
04
Campaign architecture rebuild
Performance Max, Standard Shopping, and Search are structured so each does the job it is best at — with the catalogue segmented so spend follows commercial value, not just volume.
05
CSS activated
Your Shopping campaigns move onto our CSS the moment we start — a 20% click-cost saving before any optimisation work.
06
Weekly optimisation, monthly review
Bids, budgets, negatives, and structure reviewed weekly. Reported monthly against profit — not platform vanity metrics.
// Who this is for
E-commerce businesses with large catalogues — distributors, wholesalers, brands with 200+ SKUs — who are spending on Google Ads but not confident the money is working as hard as it could. If you've never calculated your break-even ROAS, this conversation will change how you think about your ad spend.
CSS saving example
On a £3,000/mo Shopping budget, the 20% CSS saving is worth £600/mo · £7,200/yr — before we've improved a single campaign.
02
AMAZON
COMMERCIAL
STRATEGY
// Vendor Central · Seller Central · £40M+ supplied · commercial navigation

We supplied over £40M+ of product through Amazon Vendor Central. We've navigated chargeback disputes, co-op negotiations, PO fluctuations, and the full commercial complexity of operating at Vendor scale. This is not Amazon certification — this is operational experience.

Amazon commercial strategy means understanding what the platform actually costs you — not just what it pays you. Chargebacks, co-op deductions, freight allowances, pricing control, and the Vendor vs Seller decision are commercial decisions that compound over years. We advise on all of it from a position of having operated at this level ourselves.

Channel conflict between Amazon and DTC is actively managed — not ignored. We advise on pricing, positioning, and channel strategy so both channels grow without cannibalising each other.

Vendor Central strategy, PO management, and commercial navigation
Chargeback recovery and prevention — typical 40–70% recovery rate
Seller Central account management and Buy Box optimisation
Listing optimisation and A+ content strategy
Channel conflict management — Amazon vs DTC strategy
01
Channel diagnosis
We establish whether Vendor, Seller, or both is right for your business — modelling the true net margin of each, not the headline figures.
02
Margin reconciliation
Co-op, chargebacks, freight allowances, and deductions are mapped against your invoices so you finally see what each line actually makes.
03
Chargeback recovery
We dispute systematically — shortage claims, compliance penalties, PO accuracy charges — recovering a typical 40–70% of disputed amounts.
04
Listing & Buy Box work
For Seller Central: listing optimisation, A+ content, fulfilment and handling-time settings tuned to win and hold the Buy Box.
05
Channel conflict management
Amazon and DTC pricing and positioning managed together so neither cannibalises the other.
03
EMAIL
& RETENTION
MARKETING
// Certified email platform partner · retention · lifecycle · CLV

Email is the most profitable channel most e-commerce businesses underinvest in. Acquisition through ads costs money every time. Email retention compounds.

As certified partners with our chosen email marketing platform, we build flows and campaigns around your actual customer behaviour — not generic templates. Welcome sequences, abandoned cart, post-purchase, replenishment reminders, win-back — each one is calibrated to the specific purchase patterns of your customers and the margin reality of your products.

Email platform data connects back into your Google and Meta audiences — meaning every email interaction makes your paid acquisition smarter. The loop compounds in your favour.

Full email platform account audit or setup
Welcome and abandoned cart flows
Post-purchase and replenishment sequences
Win-back campaigns and re-engagement flows
Segmentation by product category, purchase frequency, and CLV
Monthly campaign sends and content strategy
Email platform → Google/Meta audience sync
01
Account audit / setup
Full review of your existing email platform — or a clean setup — with deliverability, list health, and segmentation assessed first.
02
Core flows built
Welcome, abandoned cart, post-purchase, replenishment, and win-back flows built around your actual purchase patterns and product margins.
03
Segmentation layer
Customers segmented by category, frequency, and lifetime value so every send is relevant — not a blast to the whole list.
04
Audience sync
Email behaviour feeds back into your Google and Meta audiences, making your paid acquisition progressively smarter.
05
Ongoing campaigns
Monthly campaign calendar and content, reviewed against revenue per recipient and repeat-purchase rate.
// Why retention beats acquisition
Acquiring a new customer costs 5–7× more than retaining an existing one. A customer who buys twice is significantly more likely to buy a third time. Email automation is the system that converts one-time buyers into your most valuable customers — at near-zero marginal cost.
More expensive to acquire
£0
Marginal cost of email
04
META
RETARGETING
& SOCIAL
// Facebook · Instagram · retargeting · prospecting

Meta advertising is most powerful when it works in concert with your other channels — retargeting warm audiences from Google Shopping, building lookalikes from our email platform customer segments, and prospecting cold audiences with creative that's informed by what's actually converting on-site.

We manage Meta campaigns with the same margin-first philosophy we apply everywhere else. Every campaign is connected to your break-even ROAS and your product-level margin data. No budget burns on vanity reach or engagement metrics.

Dynamic product retargeting — Google Shopping visitors re-engaged
Email platform audience sync — email behaviour informs Meta targeting
Lookalike audiences from your highest-value customers
Prospecting campaigns for new customer acquisition
Creative strategy and ad format guidance
Cross-channel attribution — Meta's role in the full journey
01
Audience foundation
We build from your strongest signals — Shopping visitors, high-value email segments, past purchasers — so Meta starts with quality, not cold guesses.
02
Retargeting layer
Dynamic product retargeting re-engages people who viewed but did not buy, with the products they actually looked at.
03
Lookalike prospecting
Lookalikes built from your highest-CLV customers find new buyers who resemble your best ones.
04
Margin-first budgeting
Every campaign tied to break-even ROAS and product margin — no spend on vanity reach or engagement.
// Add-on to Scale and Enterprise tiers
Meta is included in our Scale and Enterprise tiers, or available as an add-on to Growth. We recommend building Google Shopping and email retention first — these create the audience quality that makes Meta genuinely powerful.
05
FRACTIONAL
E-COM
DIRECTOR
// Shopify Plus · commercial strategy · supply chain · brand & IP · £1,500/day

For businesses that need director-level commercial thinking without the full-time overhead. One to two days per week embedded in your business — thinking about your margin architecture, your supply chain decisions, your channel strategy, and your team's direction.

This is not an advisory retainer where you receive a monthly report. It is an embedded engagement where we make decisions alongside you — attending supplier meetings, contributing to board conversations, challenging assumptions that are costing you money.

We've operated as Director of E-Commerce at a £20M-per-year business. We know what the role demands — and we know what founders and MDs actually need from someone in that seat.

1–2 days per week embedded in your business
Commercial strategy — margins, channels, growth architecture
Supply chain and supplier relationship advisory
Team management and capability building
Board-level reporting and commercial presentation
Ad hoc availability for time-sensitive commercial decisions
01
Commercial immersion
We embed 1–2 days a week — learning your margins, supply chain, channels, and team before changing anything.
02
Margin architecture
We build the commercial framework: product-level P&L, channel strategy, pricing, and the decisions that compound over years.
03
Embedded decision-making
We sit in supplier meetings, board conversations, and forecasting — making decisions alongside you, not emailing reports.
04
Team & capability
We develop your internal team so the commercial thinking stays in the business.
// Who this is for
E-commerce businesses doing £2M–£15M who need a senior commercial mind but aren't ready to hire a full-time director. That covers digital performance — Google, email, Shopify and Shopify Plus platform infrastructure — and the operational decisions: stock ordering, forecasting, supplier relationships, overseas sourcing, and brand and IP protection. For clients selling on Amazon, that channel is managed as part of the same commercial strategy. We take all of it off your plate.
Day rate: £1,500
Minimum 2 days/month. Initial conversation to assess fit before any commitment.
07
TRACKING
& TECH
STACK
// Enhanced conversions · Consent Mode · First-party data
The biggest performance gains we make in most accounts have nothing to do with campaign structure or bidding strategy. They come from fixing what the algorithm can actually see.
Standard Google Ads tracking misses 20–40% of conversions in most accounts — blocked by iOS, Safari ITP, Firefox cookie restrictions, and ad blockers. When your algorithm is training on incomplete data, every bid decision it makes is compromised. Enhanced conversions, Consent Mode v2, and a server-side first-party data pipeline close that gap and give Smart Bidding the complete picture it needs to do its job properly.
We also brief your developer with precision — enhanced conversion setup, CDN configuration, feed integration, site speed fixes. Clear specifications produce better work faster.
Enhanced conversions setup and verification
Consent Mode v2 implementation (mandatory for EEA)
CDN setup, bot filtering, and first-party data pipeline
GA4 audit and conversion action verification
Shopify native enhanced conversions and Customer Events setup
Shopify Plus checkout extensibility and conversion tracking
Micro-conversion tracking — enquiry forms, sample requests, brochure downloads
Extended conversion windows for high-AOV and long-consideration products
// Average uplift after full tracking implementation
Conversions visible to Google+20–40%
Smart Bidding accuracySignificantly improved
Time to bidding improvement4–6 weeks
Accounts with correct Consent Mode v2Minority at audit
// High-value / long-consideration products
Products with £500+ AOV and multi-week sales cycles require a fundamentally different measurement approach. We extend conversion windows, implement micro-conversion tracking, and build remarketing sequences that stay with the buyer through the full decision cycle — not just the 30-day default window Google uses.
// 08
LOYALTY
& RETENTION
SCHEMES
// Purchase frequency · LTV · margin-aware programme design

Every customer you acquire through paid channels has already cost you money to get. A loyalty scheme is the mechanism that makes that acquisition cost worth paying — not just once, but across the lifetime of the relationship. We design and build loyalty programmes around your margin structure, not generic points mechanics.

Most loyalty schemes fail because they're designed as a marketing exercise rather than a commercial one. Points programmes that erode margin, tier systems that reward your cheapest customers as much as your most valuable, and rewards that cost more to run than the repeat purchase behaviour they generate. We build loyalty programmes from the margin up — what can you afford to give back, on which products, to which customers, and at what purchase threshold before the economics work in your favour.

The programmes we build connect directly to your email platform — so every loyalty interaction becomes a segmentation signal that improves the performance of your email flows, your Google audience targeting, and your Meta remarketing. The loyalty scheme is not a standalone tool. It is a data engine that compounds the value of every other channel.

Loyalty programme commercial modelling — margin impact before launch
Reward structure design — points, cashback, tiered access, exclusive perks
Customer segmentation: who deserves what, and at what LTV threshold
Email platform integration — loyalty behaviour drives flow triggers and segments
Replenishment programme design for subscription-adjacent products
B2B loyalty scheme design — trade accounts, volume tiers, early access
Existing scheme audit — is your current programme making or losing you money?
// The commercial case for loyalty
Cost to retain vs cost to acquire5× cheaper
Loyalty members — spend increase after joining67% spend more
Revenue from top 20% of customers~80% of total
Email ROI vs paid acquisition£42 per £1 spent
Audit places — limited availability
We take on a select number of new accounts each month. Places are not always available.
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// 09
CONVERSION
RATE
OPTIMISATION
// Shopify & Shopify Plus · UX audit · checkout friction · more revenue from existing traffic

More traffic is expensive. More revenue from your existing traffic is not. CRO finds the commercial value that's already inside your site — the buyers who arrived, considered, and left without converting. We identify exactly where and why, and we fix it.

What we do

We audit your site through the lens of a buying customer — not a designer, not a developer. We look at where users drop off, what creates hesitation, what makes the checkout feel risky, and what is slowing the site down enough to cost conversions. Every finding comes with a commercial impact estimate and a prioritised fix.

Our CRO work is grounded in your analytics — session data, heatmaps, funnel drop-off, device and browser breakdown — not assumption. We brief your developer with precise, actionable specifications. No vague "improve the UX" outputs. Each item is specific: this element, on this page, changed in this way, for this reason.

Homepage and landing page conversion audit
Category and collection page friction review
Product page optimisation — trust signals, imagery, copy, CTAs
Checkout flow analysis — where buyers drop and why
Mobile-specific conversion review — separate from desktop
Site speed and core web vitals — 1 second of load time costs 7% conversion rate
A/B testing strategy and implementation brief
Micro-conversion architecture — enquiry forms, sample requests, callbacks
Post-CRO tracking — before and after measurement, not just recommendations

Why CRO and paid advertising belong together

Running Google Shopping to a Shopify product page with a broken mobile layout or a checkout with unnecessary friction is paying to acquire visitors who are then let down by the site. Every pound spent on acquisition is worth less when the conversion rate is below what it should be. We run CRO in parallel with our Google Ads work — not as a separate project — because the two are commercially inseparable.

A 1% improvement in conversion rate on £500k of annual revenue is worth £5,000 — without spending another penny on advertising. At £2M of revenue, the same improvement is worth £20,000. The return on a CRO sprint is typically realised within the first month.

High-AOV and long-consideration products

For products with £300+ average order values and multi-week sales cycles, CRO looks different to standard e-commerce. We focus on building confidence, reducing perceived risk, and creating clear next steps for buyers who are not ready to purchase on first visit — quote request forms, specification downloads, sample requests, call-back scheduling. These micro-conversions give you a pipeline and give the advertising algorithm a signal to optimise toward.

Trust signal architecture — reviews, guarantees, credentials, social proof
Micro-conversion design — enquiry forms, spec downloads, comparison tools
Remarketing content strategy — what to show at each stage of the decision cycle
7%
conversion rate loss for every 1 second of additional page load time
Akamai / Google research
69%
average basket abandonment rate — most of that loss is recoverable with the right CRO and remarketing
Baymard Institute
1%
improvement in conversion rate on £2M revenue = £20,000 additional annual revenue without increasing ad spend
Founded Digital
Working with your team

WE WORK ALONGSIDE
YOUR PEOPLE —
NOT AROUND THEM.

Most agencies operate in a black box — you send a brief, you receive a report, and everything that happens in between is invisible. We work differently. If you have a marketing team, an e-commerce manager, an in-house designer, or a developer — we work with them, not independently of them.

That means your people learn as we work. It means decisions are made with context, not handed down from an agency. It means when the engagement ends — if it ends — your team is better equipped than before we arrived. We are not trying to create dependency. We are trying to leave your business stronger than we found it.

If you have an in-house e-commerce manager
We work directly alongside them. They retain day-to-day ownership of the account. We provide the strategic direction, the commercial framework, and the system logic — they implement and manage it. Their knowledge of your business combined with our system is more powerful than either alone.
If you have a marketing or content team
We brief them, we review what they produce, and we connect their work to the commercial outcomes we're driving. Ad creative, product copy, email content — all of it is more effective when the strategy behind it is coherent. We make sure it is.
If you have a developer or technical resource
We brief them precisely — not with vague requirements, but with specific technical outputs. Enhanced conversion setup, CDN configuration, feed integration, site speed fixes. Clear briefs produce better work faster. Your developer's time is not wasted on back-and-forth.
If you have no marketing team at all
We handle everything end-to-end. Strategy, implementation, optimisation, reporting — and we structure the engagement so that as the business grows and you build a team, the handover is clean. You don't build a team into a black box. You build them into a system they can understand and own.
If you're switching from another agency
We handle the handover. We request access to every platform, audit what's been running, document what exists and what's missing, and brief you honestly on what we've found before we change anything. Your old agency's work is not our liability — but understanding it before we touch it protects you from inheriting problems you weren't warned about.
We are not precious about attribution. We don't need to be the only agency in the room. We don't need to own every channel. We don't need your team to report to us. We need your business to get better results — and we'll work with whoever helps that happen.
Commercial partner network

AN UNFAIR
COMMERCIAL
ADVANTAGE.

Working with Founded Digital means accessing a network of commercial relationships built over 20 years of operating in this industry. We have negotiated deals, partnerships, and agreements with carriers, platforms, and technology providers that most businesses — regardless of size — cannot access independently. Every relationship below represents a tangible commercial advantage available to every client from day one.

Shopify & Shopify Plus specialists
The majority of our clients run Shopify or Shopify Plus · everything we do is built to integrate natively with both platforms
Shopify Plus Feed integration Checkout extensibility Customer Events
Shipping & fulfilment
Partner network
ROYAL MAIL
Access to carrier terms and service levels that we have negotiated through our long-standing network relationships — not available through a standard business account. Particularly valuable for high-volume Shopify operations and subscription businesses.
// Partner access · all clients
Partner network
Premium parcel carrier
Access to domestic and international carrier terms negotiated through our partner network. Particularly valuable for businesses shipping higher-value or larger items where fulfilment cost has a direct impact on margin and competitiveness.
// Partner network · domestic & international
Partner network
INPOST
Locker network access negotiated through our delivery partners — increasingly the preferred delivery method for cost-conscious consumers. Lower cost per parcel than doorstep delivery, significantly lower failed delivery rates, and a better customer experience at a lower operational overhead.
// Partner network · locker delivery
Partner network
AMAZON
SHIPPING
Access to marketplace-grade carrier terms for non-marketplace orders through our network — enterprise-level logistics for Shopify DTC businesses, without the marketplace dependency. One of the stronger logistical advantages available in the UK market.
// Partner network · DTC fulfilment
Digital & advertising
GOOGLE CSS
As a Google Comparison Shopping Service partner, every Shopping campaign runs at 20% lower cost per click than standard Google Ads — from day one, on every account, without any campaign changes required.
// 20% saving · Always active
KLAVIYO
Certified email marketing platform partner with advanced platform access and partner-level support. We've deployed our email partner platform across accounts at every scale — our certification means clients benefit from capabilities and support tiers not available on standard accounts.
// Certified · Partner access
FEED
MANAGEMENT
Partner access to enterprise feed management infrastructure — the layer that ensures every product reaches Google Shopping with the right data, the right attributes, and the right commercial labels. The difference between a working feed and an optimal one is significant at scale.
// Enterprise grade · All clients
PRICE
INTELLIGENCE
Real-time competitive pricing intelligence across Google Shopping and marketplaces. Partner access to platforms that monitor your pricing position automatically — so you know before your conversion rate does when a competitor has undercut you on a key line.
// Real-time · Cross-channel
COMMERCIAL ADVANTAGE ACROSS YOUR ENTIRE OPERATION
Most agencies save you money on click costs. We save you money on shipping, on fulfilment, on software, on advertising — and then we make the ads work harder on top of that. The commercial advantage of working with Founded Digital starts long before a campaign goes live. Every partnership and commercial relationship in our network is available to every client, regardless of tier, from day one.
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£15.3Bn
spent on Google Ads in the UK in 2023 — a significant portion wasted on misconfigured campaigns
Statista 2023
40%
of Google Shopping budgets are estimated to be spent on irrelevant search terms without negative keyword management
WordStream benchmark data
3.4×
higher conversion rate from email vs paid social — the channel most businesses under-invest in
our email platform benchmark report
IS THERE AN AUDIT
PLACE AVAILABLE?
Audit places are limited and not always available. We review a select number of new accounts each month — if you're ready to understand what your ads are actually doing, check availability now.
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