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How Stamped & Sovi Creative Helped Park Seed Resolve 900+ Customer Questions with Reviews
“Stamped did the same thing as other reviews platforms and were priced significantly less.”
John Puttman
CXO at Park Seed
“Reviews are one of the strongest signals of customer trust, but they’re often underutilized in merchandising. By integrating review data directly into how products are ranked and recommended, brands like Poppy Barley are able to turn social proof into a real performance driver, guiding shoppers toward products that are not only relevant, but proven.”
Daniel Gurevitch
CEO & Co-Founder of Kimonix
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by Sammi Wong
Poppy Barley is a luxury apparel & accessories brand based in Canada, best known for their high-quality shoes, with a focus on responsibly made products that provide all-day comfort at fair prices. One of their business goals was to leverage user-generated content and trust signals in their merchandising and CX strategies.

Stamped helps Shopify brands drive repeat revenue through connected Lifecycle, Loyalty, and Reviews experiences. With Stamped, brands can turn customer reviews into powerful social proof to boost trust and drive sales.
Kimonix is the leading plug-and-play AI product discovery platform built to convert product exploration into sales. Kimonix enables Shopify brands to deliver an all-in-one eCommerce experience through intelligent merchandising, personalization, and agentic search.

Poppy Barley uses the Stamped & Kimonix data integration to make social proof a core driver of both collection merchandising and product recommendations. By weighing review average directly into their sorting logic, the team ensures that highly rated, trusted products consistently surface at the top of key collections.
Rather than relying on a single metric, Poppy Barley ranks products using a balanced, multi-signal approach that promotes bestsellers, while still elevating high-quality items customers love. The Footwear collection is a strong example of this strategy in action, blending review performance with sales velocity, product freshness, and available inventory to create rankings that drive both trust and revenue.

This review-led strategy extends beyond collection pages to product recommendation modules below the PDP, which is a critical decision-making moment in the shopper journey. By prioritizing alternative and complementary products with strong social proof, Poppy Barley increases shopper confidence and engagement at the point of consideration:
By leveraging the Stamped & Kimonix data integration across these touchpoints, Poppy Barley consistently prioritizes products customers trust most, turning social proof into a scalable merchandising lever that drives stronger performance across the shopping experience.
Reviews are one of the strongest signals of customer trust, but they’re often underutilized in merchandising. By integrating review data directly into how products are ranked and recommended, brands like Poppy Barley are able to turn social proof into a real performance driver, guiding shoppers toward products that are not only relevant, but proven.
Daniel Gurevitch, CEO & Co-Founder, Kimonix
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