Delicious Coffee Meets Limitless eCommerce

Everyone likes their coffee a bit different. When configuring their subscriptions, Cometeer customers build their ideal coffee profile: For instance, a customer might only want to receive light roast coffee, while another might want dark roast and decaf. Cometeer, which rotates roasters continuously, uses this information to match each customer to the perfect roasters.

We developed a proprietary system for Cometeer to handle order fulfillment—we called it RMS, short for Roast Management System. The RMS allows Cometeer operators to easily plan subscription fulfillment rules, accounting for customer preferences, coffee seasonality, and stock availability. The RMS uses these parameters to match each customer to the right roasters, dramatically simplifying the product picking process.

As Cometeer continues to iterate on the RMS, the ability to quickly fine-tune the algorithm to scale with different aspects of their business has been an invaluable competitive differentiator and a continuous source of customer delight.

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With the DTC playbook evolving every day, it can be challenging for brands to stay on top of new marketing channels: each platform has its own format and rules, and tech teams often struggle to provide the necessary level of flexibility while still offering a consolidated attribution model.

We solved this problem for Cometeer through Direct Links. These links, which can be associated with vanity URLs, discounts, and landing pages, can take the customer to different stages of the conversion funnel, including the ability to send customers straight to a pre-populated checkout page.

Direct Links are a critical part of Cometeer’s marketing strategy: they can be quickly spun up to test new partnerships and campaigns, offering the flexibility to confidently run on-brand, on-channel experiments. And because they are fully integrated into their eCommerce platform, they allow Cometeer to easily track attribution through a mix of first-touch, last-touch, and multi-touch models.

As Cometeer’s subscriber base grew, customers started to ask the brand for ways to gift Cometeer to their friends, family, and co-workers. The Cometeer team saw a huge opportunity to not only delight their customers, but also to promote the brand organically by turning their existing subscribers into brand advocates.

In 2021, we rolled out a gifting experience that allowed customers to send a box of Cometeer coffee to a friend. Gift senders can enter the recipient’s details, or generate a gifting link and have the recipient complete the gifting flow. Cometeer also invites gift receivers to activate a discounted subscription.

Consumer gifting was a success, and we later expanded it to cover corporate users: companies can create gifts in batches and send them to their employees or clients. These gifts come with additional controls, such as the ability to restrict access by email domain and redemption reports to ensure everyone gets their coffee.

Cometeer’s gifting program proved to be an incredible source of brand awareness, customer engagement, and organic subscribers, and Cometeer plans to continue improving the program to cover more use cases and include more delightful touchpoints.