E-commerce & D2C · Web Development Case Study

1.2% to 2.9% Conversion Rate — From a Shopify Rebuild

Coral Bloom was spending on traffic that arrived and left without buying. Here's how a redesign of product pages and checkout more than doubled store conversion rate — with no extra ad spend.

★★★★★5.0/5 10-week rebuild Shopify + CRO
1.2% → 2.9%
store conversion rate
−34%
cart abandonment rate
1.9x
revenue per session, same traffic
E-commerce & D2C
Shopify
CRO
Client

Coral Bloom

D2C beauty & personal-care brand

Starting point

1.2% conversion rate

Cluttered PDPs, generic checkout, high cart abandonment

Engagement window

10-week rebuild

Fixed price, fixed timeline

Services

Web Development

Shopify rebuild, product page & checkout CRO

The challenge

Traffic Was Arriving — and Leaving

Coral Bloom's paid and organic traffic was healthy, but the store itself was working against every visitor. Product pages buried key information below the fold, there was no social proof near the buy button, shipping costs surprised shoppers at the last checkout step, and the mobile experience — the majority of sessions — was a cramped, unmodified desktop theme. The result was a 1.2% conversion rate well below category benchmarks, and a cart abandonment rate the team couldn't explain.

1.2% CVR on healthy traffic volumes,
before the rebuild began
01 — What we did

The Rebuild, Start to Launch

1Week 1–2

Funnel Audit & Heatmaps

Session recordings and heatmaps on the existing store pinpointed exactly where shoppers hesitated and dropped off.

2Week 2–4

Product Page Redesign

Rebuilt PDPs with above-the-fold reviews, clearer variant selection and trust badges next to the buy button.

3Week 4–6

Mobile-First Theme Build

A genuinely mobile-first Shopify theme, not a shrunk desktop layout — built for the majority of real sessions.

4Week 6–8

Checkout & Shipping Clarity

Upfront shipping costs and a streamlined checkout removed the last-step surprises causing abandonment.

5Week 8–9

QA & A/B Testing

Cross-device QA plus A/B tests on key pages before rolling the new experience out to 100% of traffic.

6Week 10+

Launch & CRO Sprints

Full launch followed by ongoing CRO sprints, testing one variable at a time against real conversion data.

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Mobile-first wasn't optional. Once the mobile experience was rebuilt from scratch rather than resized, mobile conversion alone jumped ahead of desktop for the first time.

02 — Results

From Leaky Funnel to a Store That Converts

Conversion Rate
1.2% → 2.9%
store-wide conversion rate

More than doubled conversion rate on the same traffic — no additional ad spend required.

Cart Abandonment
−34%
lower cart abandonment

Upfront shipping costs and a simplified checkout removed the biggest last-step drop-off point.

Revenue Efficiency
1.9x
revenue per session

The same traffic now converts to nearly twice the revenue, directly improving paid-ad ROAS too.

Store Performance
Post-launch
Conversion rate
2.9%
Cart abandonment
−34%
Revenue/session
1.9x
Funnel Improvement
Before → After
Funnel StepResult
Product page → Add to cart8.4% 16.1%
Cart → Checkout started61% 78%
Checkout → Purchase44% 67%
Mobile conversion rate0.9% 2.7%
03 — In their words

What the Founder Says

★★★★★

"The Shopify rebuild took our conversion rate from 1.2% to nearly 3%. Communication was clear every week and they were still there after launch to optimize."

DN
Divya Nair
Founder, Coral Bloom
Methodology

Conversion rate, cart abandonment and revenue-per-session figures come from GA4 and Shopify Analytics, compared across equivalent traffic periods before and after launch. Timeframe and starting baseline stated above, as with every case study we publish.

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