Pantree

Impact Tracking for Shopify Sellers

Pantree, an eco friendly product company operating on Shopify, tracked tree donations and rewards by hand in spreadsheets, a process that couldn't keep pace as its product line grew. Ollon built a custom app connecting directly to Pantree's Shopify store, turning purchases into donation and impact metrics automatically. Pantree now has one centralized system for tracking environmental impact.

Situation

Pantree, an eco friendly product company operating on Shopify, needed a custom solution to track the environmental impact of their sales. They were manually calculating tree donations, landfill diversion, and customer rewards using spreadsheets, which limited their efficiency and scalability. As their product line and customer base grew, so did the need for a dedicated system to streamline tracking, reporting, and engagement.

Solution

Ollon developed a custom application that connects directly to the client’s online store, automatically capturing purchases and translating them into impact metrics. The platform tracks donations, plastic offsets, and customer activity while supporting milestone based rewards and data visualizations. Enhancements to their storefront also improved the ability to manage content and resolve customer issues.

Results

The client now has a centralized system to track environmental impact and customer engagement, significantly reducing manual effort. They can easily access and analyze sales data, manage storefront updates, and provide faster customer support. Ollon continues to provide support.

Technologies

React, Node.js, Shopify

Our Expertise in Action

Shopify

Pantree needed its impact tracking system to work inside its existing Shopify store, since that is where its actual sales happened. Ollon built the application to connect directly into Shopify, capturing purchases through checkout scripts and later a webhook based approach after working through Shopify's security verification requirements. The team also added storefront enhancements that let Pantree manage content and resolve customer issues directly. That direct connection is what lets every purchase in Pantree's store show up automatically as impact data, without a gap between what customers buy and what the tracking system reports.

Custom application development

Pantree was tracking tree donations, landfill diversion, and customer rewards by hand in spreadsheets, a process that could not keep pace as its product line and customer base grew. Ollon built a custom application that captures purchases automatically and translates them into impact metrics, calculating tree donation pricing directly through the connected API. Features were added to the application over time, including a spend tracker with PDF export, milestone reward emails, and an account page where customers can review their own impact history. The system replaced Pantree's manual process with one Ollon continues to build on as new requests come in.

Data visualization

Turning raw purchase and donation numbers into something Pantree's team and customers could actually read was part of what the impact tracking application needed to do. Ollon built data visualizations into the platform covering donations, plastic offsets, and customer activity, letting Pantree filter and review activity by date range. The team also added PDF generation for spend tracking and order confirmation, giving Pantree and its customers a document they could save or share outside the app itself. Together, these features turned a spreadsheet based process into something Pantree could visualize and act on directly.