Case Study: Alma Mater Maps achieves streamlined order fulfillment and sales growth with Shopify

Alma Mater Maps - Customer Case Study

Alma Mater Maps (almamatermaps.com) creates vintage-style map prints of colleges and universities that appeal to alumni and nostalgic fans. The founder evolved the idea from mapping cities into a product line and faced the challenge of turning a niche, design-driven concept into a sustainable ecommerce business while gaining early traction and managing fulfillment as a small operation.

They launched on Shopify and earned their first sales through Facebook promotions and shout-outs from sports bloggers, which now generate most of their traffic. On the operations side they streamlined shipping with ShipStation and a thermal label printer for quick, professional fulfillment, and kept payments and data centralized in Shopify (including using card readers), allowing the business to scale efficiently while staying lean.

Alma Mater Maps