Customer Story
Samsara Cycle
How Storista helped Samsara Cycle enhance their eommerce experience with video content

Samsara Cycle is a small yet ambitious brand of bicycle accessories aiming to stand out in a competitive market. Despite offering high-quality products, the company faced challenges in attracting and retaining customers in its Shopify store. The primary issue was the standard Shopify theme's limited capabilities for integrating video content, which hindered effective product demonstration and the building of customer trust.
The Challenge
Samsara Cycle needed a solution that would allow them to:
- Integrate videos into collection pages for better product discovery
- Add user-generated content (UGC) to increase customer trust
- Create a dynamic and engaging shopping experience
- Simplify video content management
The Solution
Samsara Cycle’s theme doesn’t support videos inside collection pages and Storista made a custom solution with seamless integration.
Besides collection videos, Storista offered a comprehensive solution:
- Spotlight on the homepage for instant visitor attention
- Video carousels in collection pages for a clear product assortment demonstration
- UGC content feeds for each product, enhancing customer trust
- Importing UGC content to the platform to reuse on different pages
Results
After implementing Storista's solution, Samsara Cycle noted significant improvements in metrics:
- Noticeable increase in sales
- Increased time spent by visitors on the site
- Improved conversion rates for products with integrated UGC content
In summary, Storista provided Samsara Cycle with a powerful tool to overcome the limitations of the standard Shopify theme and create a dynamic and engaging shopping experience.
Key advantages of the solution include:
- Seamless integration with Shopify
- Easy video content management
- Increased customer trust through UGC
- Improved product visualization
- Growth in engagement and conversion
For Shopify store owners seeking to stand out in a competitive market, Storista provides an effective solution for harnessing the power of video content and user-generated content (UGC).
“Being able to add videos to our product and collection pages has been a huge, huge win for us. Especially as a small brand without much of a name, having the ability to showcase our UGC content in a manner that feels authentic and organic has helped our customers know that we are loved and trusted.”
Sarah Howler
Chief Strategy Officer