High AOV Brands Need Omnichannel

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Brian Whalley, Co-Founder of Wonderment, on Klaviyo's product-market fit

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who’s pushing the hardest on omnichannel ecommerce, it's very often people who have really high AOVs.
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High AOV brands are the ones that most need omnichannel because a single sale usually requires several confidence building steps before checkout. A merchant selling a sofa, mattress, or outdoor set cannot rely on one email blast. They need to see that a shopper browsed online, visited a store, responded to SMS, or engaged after an event, then use that combined history to time the sales push inside one system.

  • Klaviyo won these ecommerce workflows by making outside data easy to pipe in. POS systems, form builders, SMS tools, chat, direct mail, and event data could all feed one customer profile, which made it usable for marketers without spreadsheet work or custom engineering.
  • The practical buyer pattern is different for expensive goods than for low cost impulse purchases. High AOV categories often need education, reassurance, and repeated follow up across channels, while lower AOV brands can convert with simpler email or SMS flows and fewer joined up touchpoints.
  • This is also where Klaviyo starts to overlap with Braze, Iterable, and Customer.io. Once merchants want to unify app events, store visits, support interactions, and campaign history in one profile, the competition shifts from best single channel tool to best data hub with usable integrations.

The market is moving toward software that owns the customer record and routes every touchpoint through it. As more ecommerce brands add stores, mobile apps, and post purchase systems, the winners will be the platforms that make complex journeys feel simple enough for a marketer to run day to day.