Taptico × La-Z-Boy

Prepared for independently owned La-Z-Boy stores · June 2026

We built it for Columbus. It's ready for your store.

One portal that runs the customer side of the business. Three separate systems finally talking to each other. The same build is ready to roll out to your location.

A working system, live in a real store. Not a pitch deck.

lzbcolumbus.com
The store's public website, built by Taptico
lazboy.taptico.com
The operations portal we built and run
3 systems, 1 record
Comfort Guide, CRM, and TrackWell, in sync
Hands-off syncing
Staff type a customer once. The system does the rest.

Why this matters to you

You run three tools that don't talk to each other. So your team does the talking for them.

Every store like yours runs a consultation tool, the La-Z-Boy CRM, and a sales tracker. Each one holds part of the customer story. None of them share it. So staff retype the same customer three times, follow-ups slip, and nobody sees the full picture during a sale. We fixed that for Columbus. We can fix it for you.

What we built for Columbus

A real portal, doing real work, every day.

Not a concept. These pieces are live in the Columbus store right now, and your store would get the same foundation.

01

The public website

lzbcolumbus.com. The store's consumer site, built by Taptico. Comfort Club signups, special offers, a room planner, and a design blog. The store's front door online.

Live
02

The operations portal

lazboy.taptico.com. The daily home base for the whole store: consultations, reports, scheduling, and every connected tool behind one login. We built it and we run it, so the store never touches a server.

Live
03

The Digital Comfort Guide

The in-store consultation form staff fill out with each customer. Room sizes, style, products of interest, designer notes, and who made the sale. It's the front door for every customer record.

Live
04

Reports that run on real data

Weekly revenue and close-ratio trends pulled straight from TrackWell, plus monthly summaries the owner can read at a glance. No spreadsheet exports, no manual tallies.

Live
05

Automatic syncing

Mark a consultation complete and the sale flows into TrackWell on its own. Every customer with an email lands in Mailchimp. No second form, no copy and paste, no forgotten entry.

Live
06

The weekly CRM pull

The La-Z-Boy CRM has no easy way to plug in. We built a robot that signs in like a person every week, pulls the customer list, and feeds it back into the portal.

Live
The newest build

Missed appointment recovery.

A customer who books a design appointment already raised their hand. When they don't show, that's a qualified buyer walking out the door. We built a system that wins them back on its own, the moment it happens. Nobody has to remember to follow up.

The portal detects the miss, emails the customer, alerts the team, and tracks every outcome. Start to finish, hands off.

Detect

It spots the no-show

Every 30 minutes the portal checks for appointments that came and went. Anyone who didn't show gets flagged automatically.

Engage

It reaches out, warmly

A three-email sequence starts within the hour, personalized with the customer's name, their designer, and a one-click reschedule link. It stops the moment they rebook.

Notify

The team stays in the loop

The salesperson gets an instant heads-up. Managers get a short digest every morning, Monday through Saturday, with the full picture.

Track

Every outcome is logged

Emails sent, links clicked, appointments won back. It all feeds a live dashboard, so the result is a number, not a guess.

30%

Industry benchmark: furniture stores that follow up within 24 hours win back up to 30% of missed appointments. This system follows up within the hour, automatically. Our target for Columbus is to recover one in four, within two weeks. Any appointment it saves is revenue that used to walk away.

A look inside

This is what we built. Live, today.

The public site customers see, and the operations portal your team would use. Real screens from the Columbus store.

lzbcolumbus.com homepage
lzbcolumbus.com. The store's public website. Locally owned, built to convert visitors into Comfort Club members and showroom visits.
The Digital Comfort Guide consultation form
The Digital Comfort Guide. A guided consultation, step by step, that becomes the master record for every customer.
Reports dashboard with revenue and close ratio trends
Reports on real data. Revenue and close ratio, week over week, pulled straight from TrackWell. No spreadsheets.
Connected external tools in the portal
Every tool in one place. CRM, Podium, Mailchimp, pricing, and marketing, all reachable from one login.

The unified data layer

Make one record the master. Let it feed the rest.

The big idea is simple. The Comfort Guide becomes the master customer record. Type a customer in once, and the system pushes that info to the CRM and the sales tracker for you. Here's the build, in plain steps.

01

A sync engine that never drops a lead

Every update gets queued and retried until it lands. A slow tool or a short outage can't lose a customer anymore, and the staff form stays fast no matter what's happening behind it.

02

Writing back into the La-Z-Boy CRM

The hard one. The CRM gives nobody a real way to plug in, so we extend the same robot that already reads from it and teach it to write new customers in too. The CRM fills itself.

03

Knowing it's the same customer

The system matches records across all three tools by email and phone, so one person isn't three different entries. When two records look like a match but aren't sure, a human makes the call.

04

The full story, on one screen

When a customer walks in, staff see past purchases, past visits, and past consultations in one place. That's the payoff: every conversation starts with the full picture.

05

Built to run untouched

Alerts when something needs a look, a one-click retry, and a dashboard to see what's flowing. The kind of plumbing that decides whether a system runs itself or becomes another chore.

What it means for your location

Columbus did the hard part. You skip it.

The hardest work in any build is the first one. The CRM login, the sync engine, the matching logic, the screens. That's done and proven. Rolling it out to your store is a setup, not an invention.

A

A proven build, not an experiment

You're not paying us to figure it out. You're getting a system that already works in a store just like yours, set up for your location and your team.

B

You own your customer data

Your store's portal, your customer records, your marketing list. Independent ownership stays independent. The data works for you, not somebody else's report.

C

Your staff do less, not more

The whole point is fewer steps. One entry instead of three. The system carries the busywork so the team can stay with the customer.

D

One team runs the whole thing

We build it, host it, and keep it running. When La-Z-Boy changes a screen, we catch it up. You get a working system and a number to call, not a software project to babysit.

How we work

Build it right. Run it for you. Keep it honest.

Who you'd work with

Two partners. A specialist team behind them.

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Nick Tapp

Founder · Strategy and Product

Twenty years inside Coca-Cola, Harley-Davidson, Live Nation, and the Atlanta Falcons. Built and exited Inc 5000 companies. Runs strategy and the engine that powers the work.

DC

Dave Clapper

Partner · Delivery and Client

Owns the engagement end to end and runs the day-to-day of every account, including the Columbus build. Hosts the Dave Learns AI podcast.

The next step

See it running. Then picture it in your store.

Give us 30 minutes. We'll walk you through the live Columbus portal and show you exactly what your store would get.

Or reach Dave directly · dave@taptico.com · 404-441-9947