Full-service ecommerce management for DTC brands that want to grow faster

Running a DTC brand requires constant execution across every function at once — site operations, paid media, email and retention, conversion optimization, and web development — and most brands don't have the internal team to do all of it well simultaneously.

Cart.com's ecommerce management service embeds an experienced team directly into your brand's day-to-day operation: managing your site, running your marketing, growing your customer base, and optimizing performance across every DTC touchpoint. Not an agency you hand a brief to. A team that operates as an extension of yours.

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Trusted by the world’s most iconic brands

Your outsourced ecommerce team
 without the agency sprawl

Most DTC brands spread paid media, site operations, retention, and analytics across separate agencies. No one owns the gaps between them — and that's where revenue disappears.

The problem

  • No single partner owns overall DTC revenue performance
  • Disconnected data means each agency optimizes its own metrics
  • Managing vendors drains bandwidth better spent on growth
  • Rotating agency teams reset institutional brand knowledge
  • When paid, site, and retention disconnect, no one owns the fix

Cart.com’s solutions

  • One embedded team, shared accountability for revenue
  • Unified data means every decision reflects true performance
  • Cart.com works inside your systems, one point of contact
  • An embedded model builds brand knowledge that compounds
  • One team across acquisition, conversion, and retention

The services that power your DTC operation

Cart.com's ecommerce management team delivers across every function your DTC brand requires — from acquisition through retention, and from site experience through checkout.

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Performance Marketing

Full-funnel paid media management across Meta, Google, TikTok, YouTube, programmatic, and affiliate channels — with creative strategy, audience targeting, and bidding built around your CAC and LTV targets.

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SEO and Content Marketing

Technical SEO, content strategy, and category ownership programs that build organic visibility and drive qualified traffic — designed to own the search demand that matters most to your brand and category.

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Conversion Rate Optimization

Data-driven CRO programs that identify friction across the customer journey and run structured A/B tests against the proven pillars of high-converting ecommerce sites — delivering measurable improvement in CVR and GMV.

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Email and SMS Retention

Customer lifecycle programs — welcome series, post-purchase flows, reactivation campaigns, and ongoing promotional sends — built to improve repeat purchase rate, LTV, and subscriber retention across Klaviyo and your full retention stack.

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Site Operations and Merchandising

Day-to-day management of your DTC site as an active operating channel — promotional calendar execution, product catalog updates, category page optimization, and the continuous merchandising work that keeps site performance from degrading between major initiatives.

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Web Development

Ongoing Shopify and platform development — site builds, feature launches, integration maintenance, and triage for the issues that cost revenue when left unaddressed. Development capacity embedded in your ecommerce operation, not submitted to a separate ticket queue.

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Not an agency. An embedded ecommerce team

Cart.com's ecommerce management model is built around a fundamental difference from a traditional agency relationship: we don't receive briefs and execute campaigns in isolation. We embed in your brand's day-to-day operation — attending your planning sessions, operating inside your systems, and building the institutional knowledge about your business that makes every decision more informed over time.

Beekman 1802's Chief Digital Officer put it directly: "They were fast to onboard and understand not just our marketing but our entire business. They have been true partners helping us drive double-digit growth within the first months and year over year since." That's the operating model. Accountability for business outcomes — not just channel metrics.

The outcomes Cart.com ecommerce management delivers

Measured across Cart.com's portfolio of managed DTC brands.

$200M+

Annual managed media across performance marketing programs — with certified partnerships across Google, Meta, TikTok, and YouTube.

28%+

Average revenue growth year-over-year across Cart.com's managed brand portfolio.

30%+

Average increase in conversion rate for brands running Cart.com's CRO and site optimization programs.

$2.4B

Measured and performance media managed across the Cart.com commerce services portfolio

How Cart.com ecommerce management works

A structured three-phase engagement model designed to move from brand immersion to full operational execution quickly — and optimize continuously from there.

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Onboard and immerse

Cart.com begins every ecommerce management engagement with a comprehensive brand immersion — auditing existing performance across site, marketing, and retention, mapping the technology stack, and developing the data strategy and marketing forecast that will anchor the engagement. The goal is institutional knowledge built fast, so execution can start with context rather than assumptions.

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Execute daily

Once onboarded, Cart.com's team operates as an embedded part of your brand's ecommerce function — managing site operations, running paid media, executing email and SMS programs, and making the continuous optimization decisions that keep performance improving between major initiatives. Day-to-day execution handled by experienced ecommerce operators, not delegated to junior analysts.

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Optimize and grow

Cart.com's ecommerce management engagements are structured around continuous improvement — structured CRO testing programs, media strategy refinements based on performance data, retention program optimization against LTV targets, and quarterly planning that aligns execution priorities to revenue goals. Performance that compounds over time because the team running it understands your brand, your customers, and what actually moves your business.

What's included in ecommerce management

Cart.com's ecommerce management service covers every function required to run a DTC brand at full operational capacity. Below is a full breakdown of what's included.

Cart.com's performance marketing team manages paid media across Meta, Google, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, Reddit, programmatic display, and affiliate channels. Services include: media strategy and channel mix planning, campaign build and management, creative strategy and ad production, audience targeting and segmentation, bid management and budget optimization, and weekly/monthly reporting against CAC and ROAS targets. Cart.com manages $200M+ in annual media across its brand portfolio and maintains certified agency partnerships with Google, Meta, and TikTok — providing the platform access and account support that most in-house teams and independent agencies can't replicate.

Cart.com's CRO team analyzes the full customer journey from landing page through checkout — identifying friction points and running structured A/B tests against the proven pillars of high-converting ecommerce sites: navigation and search, product display pages, collection and category pages, cart and checkout flow, and post-purchase experience. Site merchandising services cover ongoing product catalog management, promotional content execution, product recommendations, and the category page optimization that drives GMV beyond what paid media alone can generate.



Cart.com's creative team produces ad creative, landing page design, email templates, and content assets that perform — using a proprietary 11-point messaging framework built to communicate brand stories effectively across paid social, programmatic, email, SMS, and landing pages. Creative strategy is data-driven: informed by performance analysis of what's working across the full Cart.com brand portfolio, not produced in a vacuum. Brands that upgrade their creative consistently see measurable improvements in CTR, CVR, and ROAS.

Cart.com's development team supports Shopify and platform development across the full project scope: new site builds and replatforms, feature launches, integration development and maintenance, ongoing site maintenance, and triage for performance issues and bugs. Merchant of Record services manage online payment infrastructure — including payment processor management, sales tax collection, fraud prevention, chargebacks, and PCI compliance — so brands can scale online sales without building payment operations expertise in-house.

Cart.com's SEO practice covers the full scope of modern search optimization: technical SEO audits and remediation, keyword strategy and category ownership planning, on-site content development, blog and editorial content programs, schema markup, site speed and Core Web Vitals optimization, and integration with paid search strategy for full-SERP ownership. Content marketing programs are built to drive qualified organic traffic that converts — not just rankings that don't move revenue.

Cart.com manages end-to-end email and SMS programs across Klaviyo and other platforms — including: welcome and onboarding series, post-purchase sequences, browse and cart abandonment flows, replenishment and subscription nudges, winback and reactivation campaigns, and ongoing promotional sends. List health management, deliverability optimization, and A/B testing on subject lines, send times, and content ensure that retention programs improve continuously rather than plateau.

Beyond email and SMS execution, Cart.com's ecommerce management team builds and manages the broader customer lifecycle strategy: loyalty program design and management, subscription program growth, referral program execution, and the cohort analysis and LTV modeling that informs where retention investment generates the highest return. For brands whose economics depend on repeat purchase rate, Cart.com's retention practice is designed to drive that metric systematically.

Cart.com's analytics practice builds the unified reporting infrastructure that fragmented agency relationships consistently fail to deliver — connecting paid media, site performance, email, retention, and revenue data into a single performance view. Attribution modeling and incrementality testing provide accurate reads on which channels and campaigns are actually driving incremental revenue. Go-to-market planning and bottoms-up marketing forecasting help brands deploy budget against the highest-return opportunities across their annual calendar.

Built to connect with your existing commerce stack

Cart.com's ecommerce management team operates across the technology platforms your brand already uses — and maintains certified partnerships with the platforms that matter most to DTC performance.

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Google

Certified Google partner for paid search, Shopping, YouTube, and Performance Max campaigns — with direct account support and early access to Google's latest DTC advertising products.

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Meta

Certified Meta Business Partner for Facebook and Instagram advertising — with access to advanced audience tools, creative support, and the account infrastructure that high-spend Meta programs require.

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Shopify

Shopify development and ongoing platform management — from new site builds and feature launches to maintenance and optimization for brands already running on Shopify

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Klaviyo

Klaviyo partner for email and SMS program management — building and managing the lifecycle programs that drive repeat purchase, LTV, and retention for DTC brands at any stage of growth.

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