UTV Source: More Traffic, More Engaged, More Revenue

A success story from a deep parts catalog on BigCommerce, held to compounding refinement over a full year. Engagement rate rose from 64 percent to 75 percent, engaged sessions grew about a third, and revenue per visit lifted without a new channel being touched.

UTV Source CRO success story hero, Atelier Commerce, deep parts catalog on BigCommerce, engagement rate 64 to 75 percent

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UTV Source: More Traffic, More Engaged, More Revenue

A success story from a deep parts catalog on BigCommerce, held to compounding refinement over a full year. Engagement rate rose from 64 percent to 75 percent, engaged sessions grew about a third, and revenue per visit lifted without a new channel being touched.

UTV Source CRO success story hero, Atelier Commerce, deep parts catalog on BigCommerce, engagement rate 64 to 75 percent

Client

UTV Source

Duration

Ongoing

Date

At millions of sessions a year, protecting conversion efficiency is itself a win, because scaling traffic usually dilutes it. Our work was to hold that number and then push revenue per visit upward through the compounding, quiet moves a storefront rewards.

Danielle Schermerhorn, Director of Marketing at Atelier Commerce, on holding conversion efficiency at millions of sessions

Danielle Schermerhorn

Founder and CEO, Atelier Commerce

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BigCommerce, storefront platform for the UTV Source CRO success story

At millions of sessions a year, protecting conversion efficiency is itself a win, because scaling traffic usually dilutes it. Our work was to hold that number and then push revenue per visit upward through the compounding, quiet moves a storefront rewards.

Danielle Schermerhorn, Director of Marketing at Atelier Commerce, on holding conversion efficiency at millions of sessions

Danielle Schermerhorn

Founder and CEO, Atelier Commerce

BUILT WITH

BigCommerce, storefront platform for the UTV Source CRO success story

It is six in the morning on a Saturday, and someone is planning a weekend build. A skid plate, a set of tie downs, a cargo box that fits a specific model year of Ranger. The tab opens on a phone. The person taps into a category page, then into a product page, then into a filter, then back out. What happens in the next forty seconds decides whether that visit turns into a cart or into a tab that gets closed at the second coffee. At millions of sessions a year, the storefront has to answer that question the same way every time.

It is six in the morning on a Saturday, and someone is planning a weekend build. A skid plate, a set of tie downs, a cargo box that fits a specific model year of Ranger. The tab opens on a phone. The person taps into a category page, then into a product page, then into a filter, then back out. What happens in the next forty seconds decides whether that visit turns into a cart or into a tab that gets closed at the second coffee. At millions of sessions a year, the storefront has to answer that question the same way every time.

UTV Source engagement scorecard: engagement rate 64% to 75%, engaged sessions up about a third, longer session duration

A large, deep catalog that had to feel simple

UTV Source runs a single channel, direct to consumer store on BigCommerce, with a deep parts and accessories catalog and a high average order value. At that size, the CRO problem is not finding demand. It is holding conversion efficiency as traffic climbs, and moving revenue per visit upward without adding a channel, because scaling traffic often dilutes exactly the number a merchant is trying to protect.

Parts fitment and accessory discovery are complex, and mobile is where most of the browsing happens, so the store has to make the right SKU feel obvious in a thumb tap. Higher value carts follow from small merchandising decisions made in the right places, not from one dramatic homepage change. Because this is one storefront rather than a portfolio of channels, the discipline is compounding: keep testing, keep tightening, keep protecting conversion efficiency while traffic grows and while the catalog deepens. That is the shape the program had to hold, month after month.

A large, deep catalog that had to feel simple

UTV Source runs a single channel, direct to consumer store on BigCommerce, with a deep parts and accessories catalog and a high average order value. At that size, the CRO problem is not finding demand. It is holding conversion efficiency as traffic climbs, and moving revenue per visit upward without adding a channel, because scaling traffic often dilutes exactly the number a merchant is trying to protect.

Parts fitment and accessory discovery are complex, and mobile is where most of the browsing happens, so the store has to make the right SKU feel obvious in a thumb tap. Higher value carts follow from small merchandising decisions made in the right places, not from one dramatic homepage change. Because this is one storefront rather than a portfolio of channels, the discipline is compounding: keep testing, keep tightening, keep protecting conversion efficiency while traffic grows and while the catalog deepens. That is the shape the program had to hold, month after month.

UTV Source BigCommerce catalog navigation and product discovery refined for a deep, fitment driven side by side parts inventory
Continual CRO on the UTV Source storefront, monthly testing and refinement across a single direct to consumer channel
UTV Source BigCommerce catalog navigation and product discovery refined for a deep, fitment driven side by side parts inventory
Continual CRO on the UTV Source storefront, monthly testing and refinement across a single direct to consumer channel

The storefront run as a conversion system

We treated the BigCommerce storefront as a conversion system and refined it continually, then measured the result in engagement, conversion efficiency, and revenue per visit.

Continual design and development on BigCommerce. Cleaner navigation, faster and clearer pages, and a more confident path to purchase, month over month. Product discovery and merchandising were sharpened for a deep, fitment driven catalog, so the right accessory surfaces before the shopper has to name it. Continual CRO instead of a one time project, because at this scale the point is compounding. The engagement numbers moved: engagement rate rose from 64 percent to 75 percent, engaged sessions grew about a third, and visitors stayed longer. A stronger onsite experience also makes paid investment more efficient, because ad quality and landing page experience are directly linked, so against an industry trend of rising ad costs UTV Source scaled ads meaningfully with improving efficiency. We advise on paid in this engagement but do not run it, so we frame that as a downstream effect of the experience work rather than a paid media result we claim.

The storefront run as a conversion system

We treated the BigCommerce storefront as a conversion system and refined it continually, then measured the result in engagement, conversion efficiency, and revenue per visit.

Continual design and development on BigCommerce. Cleaner navigation, faster and clearer pages, and a more confident path to purchase, month over month. Product discovery and merchandising were sharpened for a deep, fitment driven catalog, so the right accessory surfaces before the shopper has to name it. Continual CRO instead of a one time project, because at this scale the point is compounding. The engagement numbers moved: engagement rate rose from 64 percent to 75 percent, engaged sessions grew about a third, and visitors stayed longer. A stronger onsite experience also makes paid investment more efficient, because ad quality and landing page experience are directly linked, so against an industry trend of rising ad costs UTV Source scaled ads meaningfully with improving efficiency. We advise on paid in this engagement but do not run it, so we frame that as a downstream effect of the experience work rather than a paid media result we claim.

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Our approach brings marketing, experience, and retention into alignment so each stage of the journey performs with greater precision. Reach out and begin your journey with us.

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Let’s bring your vision to life

Our approach brings marketing, experience, and retention into alignment so each stage of the journey performs with greater precision. Reach out and begin your journey with us.

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