About La Niche de Jules
La Niche de Jules is a French online shop for dogs and cats. It sells harnesses, collars, leads, coats, beds, toys, carriers and cat trees, plus treats and food, and personalised collars engraved with the pet’s name.
Its “Seconde Patte” collection resells items that came back after a size exchange, in like-new condition and at a lower price.
Before Vitals: 13 apps, 13 bills
So the store needs a lot on the page. Reviews and a way to collect them. Size guides for harnesses and collars. Low stock messages, payment logos, trust badges and a buy button that stays in view. Related products, a free delivery goal in the cart, the cart count in the browser tab, protected product photos and a Facebook pixel.
On Shopify, each of those is usually a separate app. That’s 13 apps for La Niche de Jules, and every one of them comes with its own monthly bill, its own code loading on every page, its own dashboard and its own support team to email when something breaks.
We measured the load times in our own speed test on a sample product page, not on lanichedejules.com.
After Vitals: 13 apps, one bill
La Niche de Jules has been on Vitals since April 2024, and all 13 of those apps now come with one Vitals plan at $29.99 a month. Each app is a switch in the Vitals dashboard, and turning another one on doesn’t mean installing anything or paying more.
Day to day, that means one bill, and one app loading code on each page instead of 13. Changes happen in one place, and there’s one support team to ask. Review requests also go out on their own after each delivery, so nobody at the store has to chase customers for them.
Where each app shows up on lanichedejules.com
Click a tab or a numbered marker to see where each app sits on the live store.
- Product Reviews
Star ratings sit under the product name and in the sticky bar, and full reviews with customer photos fill the bottom of each product page. Vitals asks for them after delivery: it has collected 122 reviews since June 2024, with an average of 4.7 stars, and 118 of them come from verified buyers.
- Size Chart
Harnesses, collars and coats have a size guide on the product page. For the personalised collar it shows neck size, collar length and width for each size, so owners can measure their dog before they order.
- Stock Scarcity
When a product is running low, a short line above the buy button tells shoppers how many are left.
- Payment Logos
Under the buy button, a row of logos shows how shoppers can pay, from Visa and Mastercard to PayPal, Apple Pay and Klarna.
- Trust Badges
Four badges below the payment logos cover the basics a first-time buyer looks for: satisfaction guarantee, secure checkout, customer service and fast shipping.
- Sticky Add to Cart
The product name, rating, price and an Add to Cart button stay pinned to the bottom of the screen while shoppers scroll through photos and reviews.
- Related Products
Under each product, a carousel shows what other shoppers bought as well. On a collar page, that means a matching leash and more collars.
- Upsell Builder
In the cart, a free delivery goal shows how much more a shopper needs to spend to get free delivery, and how close they are.
- Favicon Cart Count
When something is in the cart, the store’s paw icon in the browser tab shows the number of items, so a shopper who switches tabs is reminded to come back.
- Content Protection
Product photos can’t be saved with a right-click, so they are harder to copy onto other sites.
- Hide Dynamic Checkout Buttons
Product pages show one Add to Cart button and no express checkout shortcuts, so every order goes through the cart.
- Auto External Links
Links to other sites open in a new tab, so a shopper who clicks away still has the store open behind it.
- Facebook Pixels
The store’s Facebook pixel is set up through Vitals, so its Facebook and Instagram ads can track visits and sales without another app.
Apps La Niche de Jules could replace next with one Vitals plan
La Niche de Jules uses 13 of the 40+ apps in Vitals. Every other app is part of the same Vitals plan and sits in the same dashboard, ready to turn on.
Each one is a switch in the same dashboard. No new app, and no new bill.
