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High Street TV

Founded in 2008, High Street TV is one of the UK’s largest Omnichannel retailers; operating four 24 hour shopping channels across SKY and Freesat, you will find their product range available to buy online, in-store and over the phone.

High Street TV’s extensive product range is stocked in over 5,000 retail outlets, including, but not limited to, Argos, John Lewis, Selfridges and all major supermarkets nationwide.

 

Since the website launch, HSTV and CTI Digital have gone on to win 'Best B2C Project' at The Big Chip awards.

Business Challenge

Having operated their existing website on Magento 1 for a number of years, High Street TV were familiar with the feature rich capabilities provided by the Magento platform.

However, with Magento 1 approaching end of life in June 2020 they were keen to explore the comprehensive set of new features, performance improvements and security enhancements provided by the Magento 2 platform.

Following an in-depth discovery and scoping session the following high-level goals were defined for the project: 

  • Implement a responsive design with a 'mobile first' mindset.
  • Migrate existing commerce data from Magento 1 to Magento 2.
  • Simplify inventory management.
  • Implement integration into the existing Order Management System.
  • Improve consumer engagement through user-generated content.
  • Improve the accuracy of the on-site search.
  • Increase website conversion across all devices to 10%.
  • Provide an elastic infrastructure that can scale in-line with seasonal demand.
Mobile Website HSTV

Designing for Mobile First

Owning multiple online shopping channels: High Street TV’s direct to site conversion was generally higher than that of the industry average. An Examination into the companies, analytical data revealed that majority of users began their purchasing journey on a mobile or tablet device; and proceeded to view and purchase a single product.

Further research into High Street TV's consumer behaviour concluded that users were purchasing products whilst sitting in front of their television after having viewed a High Street TV infomercial.

As a result of the data gathered, a responsive design was put in place with a 'mobile first' approach, designed to support and assist the 'second screen' experience.

Working in close communication with the product owner the design process began by prototyping a responsive design system which featured all of the essential components which would come together to build the final website.

 

Nearly one-third of all transactions involved two or more devices from the first website visit to the point of purchase.

State of Cross-Device Commerce

Criteo

State of Cross-Device Commerce

Data Migration

As the existing Magento 1 platform had traded online for a number of years the client had amassed a tremendous amount of data that needed to be migrated over to the new platform.

Following a migration workshop that was conducted with High Street TV, it was decided that customer information and accounts would be ported over to the new system using the Magento Data Migration Toolkit.

As the existing Magento 1 website would be trading during the development of the new website a two-phased approach was implemented for data migration which consisted of:

  • Phase 1: Major Import: A ‘Major Import’ was conducted against the High Street TV’s existing database in order to migrate all existing customer and account records into the new platform.
  • Phase 2: Delta Import: Subsequent smaller ‘Delta Imports’ were conducted to import only the records that had been changed following the initial import.

Inventory Management

One of the key drivers for the project was to simplify inventory management and reduce the manual activities which were currently taking place in the warehouse.

After reviewing the client's existing product data structures we discovered that configurable options were being used to manage product selection.

Configurable options do not support the ability to control inventory available at each configuration and this was preventing High Street TV from managing stock statuses for variants of popular products such as the NutriBullet which comes in multiple colours and models.

As part of the product import process, CTI Digital converted High Street TV’s entire product catalogue over to use configurable products which in-turn created a separate product record for each configuration thus simplifying stock management.

Order Management System Integration

As an Omnichannel retailer, High Street TV required a holistic view of orders throughout the entire estate so that they could effectively manage their supply chain.

With an existing Order Management System in place, CTI Digital were tasked with interfacing to the existing business system by developing an order export interface which pushes website orders across to the warehouse in real-time.

bespoke integration flow HSTV

Quick View

quick view Product

 

With previous research into the businesses analytics concluding that customers are coming directly to the website in search of a particular product a ‘quick view’ feature was developed which provides users with the ability to configure and purchase a product directly from the existing page, removing the need to visit a product page.

Reevoo Customer Reviews

reevoo reviews

Increasing the customer's trust in both the product and the brand is a key component in influencing the customer's decision to purchase. 

In order to build credibility and reinforce the quality of High Street Tv’s product portfolio Magento’s standard review engine was replaced with Reevoo which connects consumers with honest and direct feedback from validated consumers. 

 

61% of customers read online reviews before making a purchase decision, and they are now essential for e-commerce sites.

E-Consultancy

Econsultancy

E-Consultancy

Scalable Cloud Hosting

A scalable cloud-based hosting solution was implemented which allows High Street TV support seasonal demands. The solution implemented will scale up virtual instances during peak trading periods and scale them down again automatically with zero downtime and the service is monitored and maintained 24/7 via our Magento Support Service.