Case Study: Piper achieves 10X sales growth and global scaling with Shopify Plus (Shopify)

How The Maker Of Wooden Computers Grew Sales 10X By Helping Children Create, Not Just Consume, Technology

Piper makes build-it-yourself wooden computer kits that teach children engineering, coding and problem-solving instead of passively consuming screens. After a successful Kickstarter, the four-person team faced a crunch to fulfill more than 1,300 orders by Christmas 2015 while their manufacturer couldn’t finish packing — a complex, hands-on process that threatened delivery commitments.

The team solved the immediate problem by hand-packing kits in a rented storage unit to meet the holiday deadline, then scaled the business using Shopify Plus for global sales visibility and integrations like ReCharge for subscription add‑ons. The approach enabled international growth and operational scalability, driving roughly 10× year‑over‑year sales growth (2015–2016) and thousands of units sold worldwide.

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Tommy Gibbons