Food & Beverage
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Small business
How Henry's House of Coffee turned loyalty into a 14x ROI engine after switching from Yotpo to Smile
175%
higher CLV, members vs non-members
175%
higher CLV, members vs non-members
175%
higher CLV, members vs non-members
175%
higher CLV, members vs non-members
163%
higher annual purchase frequency, members vs non-members
163%
higher annual purchase frequency, members vs non-members
163%
higher annual purchase frequency, members vs non-members
163%
higher annual purchase frequency, members vs non-members
519%
higher spend, Master vs base tier
519%
higher spend, Master vs base tier
519%
higher spend, Master vs base tier
Smile is what I'd describe as boring — in the best way! It just works. I don't get integration issues. I don't get customers emailing saying their coupon code isn't working. That's what business owners need so we can focus on the actual business.
Hrag Kalebjian
Owner, Henry's House of Coffee
Smile is what I'd describe as boring — in the best way! It just works. I don't get integration issues. I don't get customers emailing saying their coupon code isn't working. That's what business owners need so we can focus on the actual business.
Hrag Kalebjian
Owner, Henry's House of Coffee
Henry's House of Coffee is a specialty coffee roaster
Industry
Food & Beverage
Platfrom
Shopify
Merchant Size
Small business
Smile Features
Points
VIP Tiers
Integrations
Loyalty Hub
Analytics
Region
North America
The Story
Three generations of craft, one D2C ambition
Henry's House of Coffee was founded in San Francisco in 1965, a European goods store that became a specialty coffee roaster three generations later. The craft traces back to Lebanon, where Hrag Kalebjian's grandfather roasted raw beans on a wok to serve with Armenian coffee. Hrag joined the business in 2013 after a decade in corporate finance with a clear mandate: build a direct-to-consumer engine worthy of three generations of roasting expertise.
Today, Henry's runs a high-velocity Shopify operation built on three generations of roasting and a brand story Hrag puts at the center of everything.
The Challenge
Yotpo's clunky interface was costing customer engagement
Before Smile, Henry's ran their loyalty program on Yotpo. The interface felt dated and clunky, and the customer experience reflected it. Navigating points, tiers, and redemptions took too many clicks across screens that hadn't kept pace with modern Shopify storefronts. For a brand built on relationships, every friction point in the loyalty experience cost engagement.
Hrag needed a platform with a polished, intuitive front end that customers could navigate at a glance, backed by the infrastructure, integrations, and analytics required to scale a serious loyalty program. The goal was not to simplify what Yotpo offered. It was to deliver something genuinely better.
Henry's House of Coffee's Loyalty hub
The Solution
Custom tiers, Klaviyo, and a Loyalty Hub live in days
Henry's chose Smile.io to replace Yotpo and run their rewards program directly inside Shopify. Migration completed without protracted engineering work, and the program went live in days, not quarters. Smile's Loyalty Hub surfaces the entire program inside the Shopify customer account behind a single click, replacing what used to be three layers of navigation with the kind of polished front end customers actually want to use.
Rather than ship default Bronze, Silver, Gold tiers, Hrag built a VIP structure that mirrors the craft of coffee roasting itself. Customers progress from Trainee to Apprentice to Master Coffee Roaster, unlocking richer redemptions and exclusive perks at every step. The tier system is on-brand, deeply engaging, and engineered to drive frequency from a high-intent customer base.
The Klaviyo integration is where the program compounds. Every loyalty email surfaces a customer's live point balance and the rewards they can redeem in one click. Reminders convert, dormant accounts re-engage, and customers regularly reach out asking how to spend points they didn't realize they had. It is the kind of automated lifecycle engagement enterprise programs spend quarters trying to wire up; Smile ships it as a native integration.
What changed after migrating from Yotpo to Smile:
Fast migration: program configured and live in days, with minimal engineering liftItem
Native Klaviyo integration: live point balances and one-click redemption inside every lifecycle email
Loyalty Hub on the customer account page: a single rewards button replaces two to three clicks of navigation
On-brand VIP tiers: Trainee, Apprentice, Master Coffee Roaster, fun, branded, and built to drive frequency
Operational reliability: no integration breakage, no broken reward codes, freeing engineering for higher-value work
The Results
Members deliver 175% higher CLV and buy 163% more often
Smile is driving a 14x return on Henry's loyalty investment over the last 12 months. The program now covers 58% of the active customer base, and members are dramatically more valuable than non-members across every benchmark that matters.
Members deliver 175% higher customer lifetime value than non-members and purchase 163% more often per year. Among customers who actively redeem points, the gap widens further. The VIP structure compounds the effect, with Master tier customers, 74% of all members, spending 519% more than the base tier.
Beyond the numbers, the program has changed how Henry's communicates with its customers. The Sunday Pour newsletter, a monthly email about coffee culture and news, is consistently one of the brand's top-performing emails for generating orders, with loyalty point reminders woven in. When customers reach out about their rewards, Hrag can point them to two clicks inside the Loyalty Hub. The program runs reliably in the background while the team focuses on product, brand, and customer experience.
33%
redemption rate, near the top of the 19–36% range
175%
higher CLV, members vs non-members
33%
redemption rate, near the top of the 19–36% range
175%
higher CLV, members vs non-members
Why Smile.io
Everything Yotpo couldn't offer, Smile delivered
Henry's House of Coffee's program shows what happens when loyalty infrastructure matches the ambition of the brand running it. Yotpo's interface created friction at every customer touchpoint. Smile replaced it with a modern, intuitive experience customers actually use, paired with the deep integrations, advanced segmentation, and robust analytics required to operate a serious loyalty program at scale.
Smile.io powers loyalty for over 100,000 commerce brands worldwide, including leading Shopify Plus and Enterprise operators. The platform is built for real scale, with the integrations, segmentation, and analytics required to compound revenue program-over-program.
Henry's House of Coffee is a specialty coffee roaster
Industry
Food & Beverage
Platfrom
Shopify
Merchant Size
Small business
Smile Features
Points
VIP Tiers
Integrations
Loyalty Hub
Analytics
Region
North America
The Story
Three generations of craft, one D2C ambition
Henry's House of Coffee was founded in San Francisco in 1965, a European goods store that became a specialty coffee roaster three generations later. The craft traces back to Lebanon, where Hrag Kalebjian's grandfather roasted raw beans on a wok to serve with Armenian coffee. Hrag joined the business in 2013 after a decade in corporate finance with a clear mandate: build a direct-to-consumer engine worthy of three generations of roasting expertise.
Today, Henry's runs a high-velocity Shopify operation built on three generations of roasting and a brand story Hrag puts at the center of everything.
The Challenge
Yotpo's clunky interface was costing customer engagement
Before Smile, Henry's ran their loyalty program on Yotpo. The interface felt dated and clunky, and the customer experience reflected it. Navigating points, tiers, and redemptions took too many clicks across screens that hadn't kept pace with modern Shopify storefronts. For a brand built on relationships, every friction point in the loyalty experience cost engagement.
Hrag needed a platform with a polished, intuitive front end that customers could navigate at a glance, backed by the infrastructure, integrations, and analytics required to scale a serious loyalty program. The goal was not to simplify what Yotpo offered. It was to deliver something genuinely better.
Henry's House of Coffee's Loyalty hub
The Solution
Custom tiers, Klaviyo, and a Loyalty Hub live in days
Henry's chose Smile.io to replace Yotpo and run their rewards program directly inside Shopify. Migration completed without protracted engineering work, and the program went live in days, not quarters. Smile's Loyalty Hub surfaces the entire program inside the Shopify customer account behind a single click, replacing what used to be three layers of navigation with the kind of polished front end customers actually want to use.
Rather than ship default Bronze, Silver, Gold tiers, Hrag built a VIP structure that mirrors the craft of coffee roasting itself. Customers progress from Trainee to Apprentice to Master Coffee Roaster, unlocking richer redemptions and exclusive perks at every step. The tier system is on-brand, deeply engaging, and engineered to drive frequency from a high-intent customer base.
The Klaviyo integration is where the program compounds. Every loyalty email surfaces a customer's live point balance and the rewards they can redeem in one click. Reminders convert, dormant accounts re-engage, and customers regularly reach out asking how to spend points they didn't realize they had. It is the kind of automated lifecycle engagement enterprise programs spend quarters trying to wire up; Smile ships it as a native integration.
What changed after migrating from Yotpo to Smile:
Fast migration: program configured and live in days, with minimal engineering liftItem
Native Klaviyo integration: live point balances and one-click redemption inside every lifecycle email
Loyalty Hub on the customer account page: a single rewards button replaces two to three clicks of navigation
On-brand VIP tiers: Trainee, Apprentice, Master Coffee Roaster, fun, branded, and built to drive frequency
Operational reliability: no integration breakage, no broken reward codes, freeing engineering for higher-value work
The Results
Members deliver 175% higher CLV and buy 163% more often
Smile is driving a 14x return on Henry's loyalty investment over the last 12 months. The program now covers 58% of the active customer base, and members are dramatically more valuable than non-members across every benchmark that matters.
Members deliver 175% higher customer lifetime value than non-members and purchase 163% more often per year. Among customers who actively redeem points, the gap widens further. The VIP structure compounds the effect, with Master tier customers, 74% of all members, spending 519% more than the base tier.
Beyond the numbers, the program has changed how Henry's communicates with its customers. The Sunday Pour newsletter, a monthly email about coffee culture and news, is consistently one of the brand's top-performing emails for generating orders, with loyalty point reminders woven in. When customers reach out about their rewards, Hrag can point them to two clicks inside the Loyalty Hub. The program runs reliably in the background while the team focuses on product, brand, and customer experience.
33%
redemption rate, near the top of the 19–36% range
175%
higher CLV, members vs non-members
Why Smile.io
Everything Yotpo couldn't offer, Smile delivered
Henry's House of Coffee's program shows what happens when loyalty infrastructure matches the ambition of the brand running it. Yotpo's interface created friction at every customer touchpoint. Smile replaced it with a modern, intuitive experience customers actually use, paired with the deep integrations, advanced segmentation, and robust analytics required to operate a serious loyalty program at scale.
Smile.io powers loyalty for over 100,000 commerce brands worldwide, including leading Shopify Plus and Enterprise operators. The platform is built for real scale, with the integrations, segmentation, and analytics required to compound revenue program-over-program.
Henry's House of Coffee is a specialty coffee roaster
Industry
Food & Beverage
Merchant Size
Small business
Region
North America
Platfrom
Shopify
Smile Features
Points
VIP Tiers
Integrations
Loyalty Hub
Analytics
The Story
Three generations of craft, one D2C ambition
Henry's House of Coffee was founded in San Francisco in 1965, a European goods store that became a specialty coffee roaster three generations later. The craft traces back to Lebanon, where Hrag Kalebjian's grandfather roasted raw beans on a wok to serve with Armenian coffee. Hrag joined the business in 2013 after a decade in corporate finance with a clear mandate: build a direct-to-consumer engine worthy of three generations of roasting expertise.
Today, Henry's runs a high-velocity Shopify operation built on three generations of roasting and a brand story Hrag puts at the center of everything.
The Challenge
Yotpo's clunky interface was costing customer engagement
Before Smile, Henry's ran their loyalty program on Yotpo. The interface felt dated and clunky, and the customer experience reflected it. Navigating points, tiers, and redemptions took too many clicks across screens that hadn't kept pace with modern Shopify storefronts. For a brand built on relationships, every friction point in the loyalty experience cost engagement.
Hrag needed a platform with a polished, intuitive front end that customers could navigate at a glance, backed by the infrastructure, integrations, and analytics required to scale a serious loyalty program. The goal was not to simplify what Yotpo offered. It was to deliver something genuinely better.
Henry's House of Coffee's Loyalty hub
The Solution
Custom tiers, Klaviyo, and a Loyalty Hub live in days
Henry's chose Smile.io to replace Yotpo and run their rewards program directly inside Shopify. Migration completed without protracted engineering work, and the program went live in days, not quarters. Smile's Loyalty Hub surfaces the entire program inside the Shopify customer account behind a single click, replacing what used to be three layers of navigation with the kind of polished front end customers actually want to use.
Rather than ship default Bronze, Silver, Gold tiers, Hrag built a VIP structure that mirrors the craft of coffee roasting itself. Customers progress from Trainee to Apprentice to Master Coffee Roaster, unlocking richer redemptions and exclusive perks at every step. The tier system is on-brand, deeply engaging, and engineered to drive frequency from a high-intent customer base.
The Klaviyo integration is where the program compounds. Every loyalty email surfaces a customer's live point balance and the rewards they can redeem in one click. Reminders convert, dormant accounts re-engage, and customers regularly reach out asking how to spend points they didn't realize they had. It is the kind of automated lifecycle engagement enterprise programs spend quarters trying to wire up; Smile ships it as a native integration.
What changed after migrating from Yotpo to Smile:
Fast migration: program configured and live in days, with minimal engineering liftItem
Native Klaviyo integration: live point balances and one-click redemption inside every lifecycle email
Loyalty Hub on the customer account page: a single rewards button replaces two to three clicks of navigation
On-brand VIP tiers: Trainee, Apprentice, Master Coffee Roaster, fun, branded, and built to drive frequency
Operational reliability: no integration breakage, no broken reward codes, freeing engineering for higher-value work
The Results
Members deliver 175% higher CLV and buy 163% more often
Smile is driving a 14x return on Henry's loyalty investment over the last 12 months. The program now covers 58% of the active customer base, and members are dramatically more valuable than non-members across every benchmark that matters.
Members deliver 175% higher customer lifetime value than non-members and purchase 163% more often per year. Among customers who actively redeem points, the gap widens further. The VIP structure compounds the effect, with Master tier customers, 74% of all members, spending 519% more than the base tier.
Beyond the numbers, the program has changed how Henry's communicates with its customers. The Sunday Pour newsletter, a monthly email about coffee culture and news, is consistently one of the brand's top-performing emails for generating orders, with loyalty point reminders woven in. When customers reach out about their rewards, Hrag can point them to two clicks inside the Loyalty Hub. The program runs reliably in the background while the team focuses on product, brand, and customer experience.
33%
redemption rate, near the top of the 19–36% range
175%
higher CLV, members vs non-members
Why Smile.io
Everything Yotpo couldn't offer, Smile delivered
Henry's House of Coffee's program shows what happens when loyalty infrastructure matches the ambition of the brand running it. Yotpo's interface created friction at every customer touchpoint. Smile replaced it with a modern, intuitive experience customers actually use, paired with the deep integrations, advanced segmentation, and robust analytics required to operate a serious loyalty program at scale.
Smile.io powers loyalty for over 100,000 commerce brands worldwide, including leading Shopify Plus and Enterprise operators. The platform is built for real scale, with the integrations, segmentation, and analytics required to compound revenue program-over-program.
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