SHOPIFY AGENCY FOR WELLNESS BRANDS
Health and wellness ecommerce development for supplement and herbal brands.
BRISTM does health and wellness ecommerce development on Shopify for supplement, vitamin, herbal and wellness brands. We build subscribe-and-save plans that customers keep, ingredient pages that answer "what's in it?", bundles and gift boxes, and product copy set up for your claims review. Built on Shopify, run by a team that builds subscription apps.
BRISTM in numbers
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76
Fashion & lifestyle stores launched
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12
Fashion categories served
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30
Average lift in conversion rate
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24/7
Support during launches and sales
WHY BRISTM
Wellness customers buy on trust and reorder on habit. We build for both.
Supplement buyers read labels, compare doses and want to know where ingredients come from. Then, if the product works, they want it to arrive before they run out. As a Shopify agency for supplement brands, BRISTM builds the product pages that earn the first order and the subscription setup that keeps the next ones coming. We also build and run Utterbond, our own subscription app.
- Ingredients & Claims
- UX & Design
- Subscriptions
- Retention
THE CHALLENGE
Wellness ecommerce has rules, habits and doubts to work around.
A supplement ecommerce website sells products people take every day, under rules on what you can say about them. Shoppers are careful, reorders drive the business, and a single overstated claim can cost you an ad account. Here is where most wellness stores struggle.
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Claims risk
“Does this actually do what it says?”
We set up product copy fields so every claim sits in one place for your compliance review, with the right disclaimer shown by market. Nothing about health benefits goes live without your sign-off.
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Missed reorders
“I ran out before my next order.”
Subscribe-and-save plans with Utterbond Subscriptions, delivery every 30, 60 or 90 days, prepaid options, and a customer portal to skip, swap or pause instead of cancelling.
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Proof of quality
“What's in it, and where from?”
Ingredient pages built from Shopify metaobjects: dose per serving, source, certifications and lab test documents, linked from every product that uses them.
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AI answers
“My AI assistant picked another brand.”
We structure ingredients, doses, formats and dietary tags so ChatGPT and Gemini read your products correctly, and keep any on-site AI assistant away from medical advice.
WELLNESS ECOMMERCE SERVICES
Health and wellness ecommerce development, from label to reorder.
Six services cover the store end to end. Most supplement and herbal brands start with the store build and subscriptions, then add marketing, AI support and conversion work.
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Wellness Shopify store design
Product pages that show dose, format, ingredients and "how to take" before the fold. Collections by goal, such as sleep, energy or gut health, as well as by format.
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Supplement subscription development
Subscribe and save, prepaid plans and build-a-box on Utterbond. Tiered bundle discounts with Shopify Functions and Rebolt for stacks and gift boxes.
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Migration to Shopify
Products, customers, order history and active subscribers moved to Shopify with no break in billing, plus 301 redirects for every old URL.
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Growth marketing for wellness brands
Klaviyo flows for reorders and dunning, ad and Google Merchant Center copy checked against health-claim policies, and reviews on the right products.
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AI & automation
An AI support agent that handles order and subscription changes, answers from your approved product data, and hands any health question to a person in Gorgias.
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Conversion rate optimisation
Goal-based product quizzes, subscription-first product pages, bundle ladders and checkout offers through AddUp Checkout Customizer, tested one change at a time.
WHAT WE PLAN FOR
Built around the realities of selling supplements and herbal products.
Wellness stores fail on details that never show in a design file: a claim that breaks ad policy, a batch that expires in the warehouse, a payment provider that won't accept a product. We plan for these first, then design around them.
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Claims and disclaimers
Claim fields, market-specific disclaimers and an approval step, planned with your team against FDA/FTC, ASA or local rules.
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Subscriptions and dunning
Delivery cadences, prepaid plans, failed payment retries and pause-instead-of-cancel options set up before launch day.
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Batches and expiry
Shopify doesn't track expiry dates by default, so we connect your warehouse or ERP for batch, lot and best-before data.
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Payments and restrictions
We check which of your products Shopify Payments and other gateways accept in each market before you launch there.
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Bundles and gifting
Stacks, gift boxes and build-your-own sets that keep stock accurate for every component product.
Health & wellness ecommerce FAQ
Questions? We've got answers.
Still unsure? Write to us at hi@bristm.com and a health and wellness ecommerce specialist will reply.
Health and wellness ecommerce development is building an online store for supplements, vitamins, herbal products or wellness goods. BRISTM builds these on Shopify, with subscriptions for repeat orders, ingredient and sourcing pages, bundles, and product copy structured so your team can review every claim before it goes live.
BRISTM projects start from $5,000. A wellness store on a customised Shopify theme usually takes 8 to 10 weeks, and a fully custom build takes 3 to 6 months. Subscription setup, quizzes, custom bundles and the number of markets you sell in all affect the final quote.
Yes. We use Utterbond Subscriptions, our own Shopify app, for subscribe and save, prepaid plans and build-a-box. Customers manage deliveries in a portal, failed payments are retried, and Klaviyo, Gorgias and Shopify Flow connect out of the box. Plans start free, with a 2% fee per subscription order.
Your regulatory or legal adviser decides what you can claim. We make it easy to follow their advice: claims sit in dedicated fields, disclaimers show by market, and changes can go through an approval step. We don't write or approve health claims ourselves, and we flag risky wording we notice.
Yes, many supplement brands run on Shopify. Some ingredients and product types are restricted by Shopify Payments or by local law in certain markets, so we check your range against the current rules and gateways before launch. Where one gateway won't accept a product, we set up an approved alternative.
Yes. Utterbond supports subscriber migration with zero data loss. We move active subscribers, their next billing dates, products and payment methods where the payment provider allows it, then test renewals before switching. Customers keep their schedule and don't need to sign up again.
Yes, with clear limits. We build AI assistants that handle orders, deliveries and subscription changes, and answer product questions only from your approved data. Anything about symptoms, medicines or conditions is handed to a person. Every answer can be logged so your team can review it.
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