Replatforming a high-street homewares retailer's online shop
High-street homewares retailer, UK
- Challenge
- The retailer's web shop ran on a heavily customised platform that had fallen two major versions behind. Page loads averaged over four seconds on mobile, promotions needed a developer to set up, and the Christmas peak had taken the site down twice in the previous two years.
- Solution
- We rebuilt the storefront as a headless front end on a composable commerce back end, migrated catalogue and order history, and moved hosting to a managed cloud platform with autoscaling. Merchandisers now run promotions themselves. We load-tested to three times the previous peak before cutover.
- Results
- Mobile page load down from 4.2 seconds to 1.3
- First peak season handled with 0 minutes of downtime
- Promotion set-up moved from developer tickets to 15 minutes in admin


















