About Buddy

Buddy is a native ecommerce platform purpose-built for cannabis dispensaries and brands. In place of iframe or third-party menus, Buddy gives retailers true storefronts that customers actually shop, with full control over the digital storefront, product merchandising, and customer experience. Powering online ordering for more than 300 dispensaries, Buddy runs AI across product discovery, SEO, and sales optimization, all on enterprise-grade infrastructure built for cannabis retail at scale.

AIQ & Buddy

The official integration between Buddy and AIQ brings loyalty inside the storefront so it runs as part of the shopping flow. When a customer creates an account on a Buddy storefront, an AIQ account is created automatically, with no double sign-up or manual sync. Points balances and available rewards display live as customers browse, redemption happens right in cart and checkout, and every online order reports back to AIQ so each purchase earns points. Drag-and-drop AIQ components let retailers place loyalty anywhere on the site with no code, giving shoppers one connected experience and operators more repeat revenue.

Use Cases

• Loyalty Inside the Storefront: Surface live points balances and available rewards natively as customers shop, with redemption built directly into cart and checkout instead of a separate portal.
• Automatic AIQ Account Creation: Turn every storefront sign-up into an AIQ loyalty member on the spot, with no double sign-up or manual sync for the customer or operator to manage.
• No-Code Loyalty Placement: Use drag-and-drop AIQ components to add points balances, reward callouts, and redemption flows to any page, from the homepage to product pages to the account area.
• Point Earning on Every Order: Report online purchases back to AIQ automatically so each transaction earns points and keeps segmentation, campaigns, and analytics current.
• Repeat Revenue and Retention: Give shoppers a loyalty profile that follows them across visits, driving repeat purchases and stronger loyalty enrollment across the storefront.
• Behavioral Marketing Automation: Unify Buddy storefront activity with AIQ to trigger personalized SMS, email, and push campaigns based on real shopping and purchase behavior.

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