How Car Toys Transformed Retail & Digital Experiences with Shopify

Background & Challenges

Car Toys has built a reputation for offering concert-quality sound systems and custom mobile electronics installations. But powering a customized experience through Magento meant high platform fees, constant integration failures, and a disjointed data picture between online and brick-and-mortar channels. Checkout bridges broke without warning, and every unexpected platform update ate up precious engineering hours.

Why Shopify?

When their contract renewal loomed, the team saw an opportunity. Shopify offered a unified commerce vision, with built-in POS, gift card support online and offline, and a developer-friendly API surface. Migrating meant trading complex workarounds for a single system to manage products, inventory, payments, and promotions.

Rapid 30-Day Migration

Partnering with Teifi Digital, Car Toys compressed a six-month rollout into a 30-day pilot. They prioritized must-have features—real-time showroom inventory, appointment booking, and seamless gift cards—and ran a phased launch. Sales never paused as critical Magento modules were rebuilt or replaced on Shopify.

Unified Gift Cards & POS

On Magento, gift cards lived in a silo. Now Shopify POS drives a single gift card ledger: customers can buy online, redeem in store, or vice versa, without manual reconciliations. Transaction data flows directly into Shopify, slashing reconciliation time and giving managers clear visibility.

Empowering Non-Technical Teams

Beyond operational gains, Car Toys equips marketing and store managers to launch promotions, update landing pages, and swap banners without touching code. The UI is intuitive, so changes go live the same day instead of waiting weeks for dev resources.

Results & Impact

With a single, scalable platform, Car Toys reduced technical overhead, streamlined integrations, and delivered a consistent shopping journey at every touchpoint. Their successful full platform launch followed just five months after the pilot—an outcome that redefines what unified commerce can achieve.