Best Clienteling Software for Retail Brands

Struggling with clienteling? We compare the leading platforms to help you find the solution that lets your store teams build customer relationships that actually scale

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Written by

Philip Marshall, Marketing Associate @ Endear

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When growing retail brands want to improve their customer relationships with clienteling, they often come to us with the same challenges. Their store teams are trying to reach out to customers to drive repeat purchases, but without the right tools, it's an uphill battle.


Here are the common problems we see: 

Problem 1: Fragmented Customer Data

It’s hard to sell effectively when you’re going in blind. Store teams lack a unified, organized view of their customers, making it difficult to send truly personalized outreach.  

Wouldn’t it be great if your teams could see all their customer data under one roof? To do this, your clienteling platform would need to integrate with your entire tech stack to bring together purchase history, preferences, and engagement in one place.

Problem 2: Disorganized, Ineffective Outreach

We still hear about store teams using their notes app and personal numbers to manage customer outreach. Yikes! It’s disorganized, inconsistent, and bound to result in key customers falling through the cracks.

The solution is a centralized clienteling platform that helps your teams manage outreach. It should inform who they’re reaching out to, when they’re reaching out, and what they’re sending. In other words, it should take the guesswork out of clienteling.

Problem 3: Manual Tasks and Low Adoption

No matter how organized they are, no sales associate wants to copy/paste the same “thank you for shopping with me message” 100 times over. The manual, tedious nature of most clienteling efforts usually means it’s inconsistent at best, or nonexistent at worst. 

You need a platform that can automate tedious tasks without compromising the personal, one-to-one nature of clienteling. 

Problem 4: Lack of Performance Visibility

Imagine having no idea which of your store associates are actually engaging with customers, or what messaging drives the most sales. Without a central system, you're flying blind. Managers can't track efforts or hold associates accountable, and associates don't know if their efforts are actually working. 

The best clienteling platforms provide robust analytics dashboards that show exactly what's happening. You can see which associates are most active, which messages get the best response rates, and most importantly, how clienteling is impacting your bottom line.

In this guide, we'll compare the top retail clienteling platforms and show you what to look for when choosing a solution. We'll examine how each platform addresses these key challenges and help you find the best fit for your brand's needs.

1. Endear

Endear is a retail CRM for store teams to manage their customer relationships. It combines automation with human touch to make clienteling possible at large scale. Unlike other clienteling platforms, Endear was built specifically for modern retail brands who need to engage customers both in-store and online.

Quick Tour of Endear

Solution 1: Unified Customer View

Endear brings your retail data together using one-click integrations with the most popular POS systems, e-commerce platforms, support tools, and marketing solutions. 

This powers Endear’s customer profiles to give associates a 360 degree picture of their clients. Each profile displays key metrics like total spend, average order value, and purchase frequency. It also includes an interactive timeline that shows every touchpoint the customer has had with your brand—purchases, messages, support tickets, notes, and tasks—all in chronological order. Depending on your needs, you can use customer fields like loyalty status, favorite colors, preferred styles, and more to get an even deeper understanding of your customers. 

Customer relationship management for retail from Endear.

Endear Customer Outreach

Solution 2: Customer Outreach Built for Retail Teams

Endear transforms disorganized, inconsistent outreach into a streamlined process with multiple communication options. Associates can message customers through SMS, email, or WhatsApp in an intuitive and organized way. While composing a message, they can easily insert message templates, product photos, or even create beautiful, shoppable lookbooks without leaving Endear.

Audience lists make it simple to identify exactly who needs attention and when. Store teams can quickly create dynamic customer segments based on purchasing behavior, location, or custom attributes. These lists update automatically, ensuring associates always reach the right customers with the right message—whether it's VIPs who haven't purchased in 60 days or customers who bought winter accessories last season.

The platform's inbox structure is specifically designed for retail environments where teamwork matters. Each associate has their personal inbox for managing individual customer relationships, while a shared team inbox gives managers visibility across all conversations. This dual approach ensures no customer falls through the cracks and creates accountability across the team. 

Solution 3: Automated Campaigns

Automated SMS and email campaigns from Endear

Endear Automated Campaigns

Endear solves the manual effort problem with automation that maintains the personal touch. Automated campaigns can be sent as a one-time message or triggered by specific customer behaviors such as purchases—all while appearing to come directly from a real associate at the store.

Campaigns can be set up to welcome new customers, follow up after purchases, celebrate birthdays, promote new arrivals, or re-engage lapsed shoppers. What sets Endear’s campaigns apart from mass marketing is that they are sent on behalf of your associates. 

For example, if you create a campaign to send out a thank you message two days after a customer buys from your store, that message will appear sent from whichever associate assisted them in-store.

When a customer responds, they're seamlessly routed to the appropriate associate's inbox to begin a real, one-to-one conversation. This powerful combination of automation and personal touch allows teams to scale their clienteling efforts without sacrificing authenticity.

Solution 4: Dashboards & Insights

Endear report of Sales Over Time

Endear Dashboards

Endear provides comprehensive analytics that connect clienteling activities directly to sales results. The platform's intuitive dashboards show which associates are most active, which messages are most effective, and which activities are actually driving revenue.

Team leaders can track key metrics like message open rates, response rates, and revenue attribution. Leaderboards foster healthy competition among associates, while individual performance reports help identify coaching opportunities. 

With these insights, managers can set realistic goals, identify best practices, and continuously optimize their clienteling strategy. The clear connection between activity and results helps drive adoption across the entire team.

Why Endear is Our Top Pick

Endear brings together everything retail brands need to build lasting customer relationships at scale. It sets itself apart by eliminating the fragmented, manual processes that typically make clienteling unsustainable while maintaining the personal touch that makes it effective.


Beyond the powerful features we've explored, Endear also offers features that bridge the gap between in-person and online, including omnichannel attribution, sales-focused live chat, and appointment scheduling.


Endear is the best solution for mid-size to enterprise level retail brands in fashion, beauty, jewelry, home goods, and more. If your goal is to drive foot traffic, build relationships, and encourage repeat purchases, then Endear is for you. 

Ready to see Endear in action? Book a demo with our sales team to discover how we can help your brand build stronger customer relationships that drive repeat sales.

2. Tulip

Example clienteling app interface

Customer Profiles on Tulip

Tulip is a clienteling platform for store teams to manage their client books. It offers features like customer profiles, one-to-one messaging, appointment scheduling, task management, and reporting capabilities. The platform provides associates with deep customer insights and preferences but lacks automation tools to scale these interactions.

Tulip works best for luxury brands or retailers who focus on a small number of high-value clients rather than clienteling at scale. Its approach is suited for brands where associates manage a limited portfolio of VIP customers but isn't designed for growing brands needing to extend personalization across their entire customer base.

See our full breakdown of Endear vs Tulip to compare features, pricing, and capabilities in detail.

3. Salesfloor

Example clienteling app

Customer profiles on Salesfloor

Salesfloor is a clienteling platform for store associates to engage their customers. It offers features like customer profiles, one-to-one messaging, appointment scheduling, task management, and associate storefronts for online shoppers. Salesfloor emphasizes generating online leads for in-store associates but lacks key features for building strong relationships with your larger customer base.

Salesfloor is best suited for brands focusing heavily on selling to a few high-value clients, both online and in-store. It requires significant time and effort from associates to be effective, making adoption difficult for brands trying to accomplish clienteling at scale.  


See our full breakdown of Endear vs Salesfloor to compare features, pricing, and capabilities in detail.

4. OneShop

Clienteling app interface

OneShop Customer Profile

OneShop is a platform combining store outreach, marketing, and clienteling. It offers features like customer profiles, one-to-one messaging, social media post scheduling, email design, and basic mass messaging capabilities. 

OneShop works best for small retailers and boutique shops who need basic customer engagement tools without requiring technical sophistication. Its simplified approach serves businesses with straightforward customer engagement needs who value breadth of features over depth of capabilities. 


See our full breakdown of Endear vs OneShop to compare features, pricing, and capabilities in detail.

Final Thoughts

When choosing a clienteling platform for your retail brand, the solution should directly address the four critical challenges we've identified: fragmented customer data, disorganized outreach, manual tasks that limit adoption, and lack of performance visibility.

The right platform doesn't just digitize old processes—it fundamentally transforms how your store teams connect with customers. It should unify customer data across channels, organize outreach efforts, automate repetitive tasks without losing the personal touch, and provide clear insights that link activity to revenue.

Endear stands out in the retail clienteling landscape by combining sophisticated CRM capabilities with retail-specific features built for the way modern brands operate. While other solutions offer basic digital client books or broad but shallow functionality, Endear provides the automation, segmentation, and analytics tools needed to scale personal relationships across your entire customer base.

For growing brands with multiple locations and thousands of customers, the ability to maintain personal connections without overwhelming your team is invaluable. Whether you're looking to increase repeat purchases, drive store traffic, or build lasting customer loyalty, the right clienteling platform makes these goals achievable.

Ready to see how Endear can transform your customer relationships? Request a demo today or try it free for 14 days and discover why leading retail brands choose Endear as their clienteling solution.

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