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How Princess Auto Increased Conversions and RPV with Constructor

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+22 %
Conversion Rate
Industry
Tools & Equipment
Headquarters
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Solutions
Search, Autosuggest, Browse, Recommendations, Collections
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+22 %
Conversion Rate
"Many tools take a long time to ingrain into your business, and it can be a while before you see results. Constructor proved to be different. After installing Constructor, we saw great results nearly immediately - conversion rates are up, our customers are finding what they need faster, more users are using search - because it works. The proof process also allowed us to find and act on valuable insights within our existing manual processes long before we actually went live."
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Dave Matthes
Imagination Leader, Princess Auto Ltd.
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About Princess Auto

Princess Auto is a privately owned Canadian retail chain founded in 1933 that’s focused on providing unique tools and equipment to tradespeople, farmers, inventors and industrial workers across Canada.

Their catalog hosts a wide array of products built for any job - from air compressors to HDMI cables, hydraulic equipment, farm and specialty hardware items, chainsaws, logsplitters and more. 


Princess Auto strives to provide an outstanding customer experience. They want customers to feel like they belong and are part of the brand. As a key customer touchpoint, having an amazing on-site product discovery experience was essential. 

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Their catalog hosts a wide array of products built for any job - from air compressors to HDMI cables, hydraulic equipment, farm and specialty hardware items, chainsaws, logsplitters and more. 


Princess Auto strives to provide an outstanding customer experience. They want customers to feel like they belong and are part of the brand. As a key customer touchpoint, having an amazing on-site product discovery experience was essential. 

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The Challenge

Before Constructor, Princess Auto faced many challenges with their product discovery system, Endeca.

Optimizations had to be done manually - there was no AI or learning from user behavior to ensure great results by default.  

The only real option to improve results was excessive manual merchandising. It was impossible to find time to optimize all their important search queries, so they were forced to only optimize for the key terms that could be reached manually. Many aspects of their on-site experience were being left behind.

 

The team also experimented with Oracle Commerce Cloud’s built-in search, but found their templates difficult to work with and default search returning subpar results requiring more manual intervention. They needed a platform that provided both a great benchmark to start from as well as a solid technological framework that could optimize their experiences for every user across their entire site, rather than just for a few
key search terms.  



The Solution

Where Constructor Comes In

After speaking with Constructor, both teams started working immediately to improve Princess Auto’s product discovery experience. 

 

Constructor and Princess Auto met weekly to discuss potential improvements across search, autosuggest, category browsing and landing pages.

The Results

Princess Auto liked the idea of better product discovery, but wanted to test the system before going live.

+14.25 %
in AOV
+22 %
in conversion rate growth
+247 %
in revenue per visit
During the proof process, not only were they impressed with Constructor's capabilities, but gained valuable insights that their existing analytics tools couldn’t provide - from finding and fixing zero-result searches, to solving journeys with
fractured search experience and more.


Working closely together, Princess Auto and the Constructor team built a highly effective search function. Once the new system went live, the results were even better than expected.

Is there room for improvement with your current search vendor?​ Find out.

Reach out to a Constructor Product Discovery Specialist to learn how our testing helps surface gaps so you can make a data-driven assessment.

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