UTV Source on Nosto: Fitment as a Shopper Identity

A success story from a category where the wrong SKU is not a return, it is a lost customer. After the Searchspring to Nosto replatform, site wide session conversion lifted 332 percent year over year and recommendation CTR is running at roughly twice the published Nosto benchmark.

UTV Source Nosto replatform success story hero, Atelier Commerce, side by side aftermarket parts on BigCommerce and Shopify

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UTV Source

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Ongoing

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UTV Source on Nosto: Fitment as a Shopper Identity

A success story from a category where the wrong SKU is not a return, it is a lost customer. After the Searchspring to Nosto replatform, site wide session conversion lifted 332 percent year over year and recommendation CTR is running at roughly twice the published Nosto benchmark.

UTV Source Nosto replatform success story hero, Atelier Commerce, side by side aftermarket parts on BigCommerce and Shopify

Client

UTV Source

Duration

Ongoing

Date

A personalization stack in this category either treats the vehicle as identity or it does not work. We built the identity first, then wired every Nosto surface to read from it, so the store recognizes the rider on every page and every session without asking her to repeat herself.

Danielle Schermerhorn, Director of Marketing at Atelier Commerce, on the UTV Source fitment identity build

Danielle Schermerhorn

Founder and CEO, Atelier Commerce

BUILT WITH

BigCommerce, catalog platform for the UTV Source Nosto replatform success story
Nosto, personalization platform wired to the fitment identity on the UTV Source storefront

A personalization stack in this category either treats the vehicle as identity or it does not work. We built the identity first, then wired every Nosto surface to read from it, so the store recognizes the rider on every page and every session without asking her to repeat herself.

Danielle Schermerhorn, Director of Marketing at Atelier Commerce, on the UTV Source fitment identity build

Danielle Schermerhorn

Founder and CEO, Atelier Commerce

BUILT WITH

BigCommerce, catalog platform for the UTV Source Nosto replatform success story
Nosto, personalization platform wired to the fitment identity on the UTV Source storefront

A rider types the model year of a Polaris Ranger into the search bar and expects the site to remember it on every page after that. Not on the results page. Not on the category. On every page, every session, every return visit, until the vehicle in the garage changes. Fitment is the promise a side by side catalog is either keeping or breaking, and the promise is silent when it works. When it fails, the customer leaves and does not come back.

A rider types the model year of a Polaris Ranger into the search bar and expects the site to remember it on every page after that. Not on the results page. Not on the category. On every page, every session, every return visit, until the vehicle in the garage changes. Fitment is the promise a side by side catalog is either keeping or breaking, and the promise is silent when it works. When it fails, the customer leaves and does not come back.

UTV Source Nosto scorecard: +332% session conversion YoY, 2x benchmark recommendation CTR, 376 behavioral profiles, 173 content campaigns

A parts catalog that had to know the vehicle

UTV Source is North America's largest aftermarket parts retailer for side by sides and ATVs, running a deep catalog on BigCommerce with paid media reach that pulls in the audience the category demands. The problem was not traffic. It was that Searchspring treated fitment as a faceted filter, one more checkbox in a sidebar, when the category treats fitment as identity. A CRO program in this catalog rebuilds around that fact or it hits a ceiling.

The picture we drew was a store that recognized the rider at the door and stayed with her through the aisles. My Garage as a persistent shopper identity, not a preference saved in a cookie. Nosto reading from that identity on search, category, recommendations, on site content, and behavioral pop ups. Merchandising rules that changed at rebate season without a person editing a homepage on a Saturday morning. One signal, wired through every surface, held together by rules that keep working after the launch week ends.

A parts catalog that had to know the vehicle

UTV Source is North America's largest aftermarket parts retailer for side by sides and ATVs, running a deep catalog on BigCommerce with paid media reach that pulls in the audience the category demands. The problem was not traffic. It was that Searchspring treated fitment as a faceted filter, one more checkbox in a sidebar, when the category treats fitment as identity. A CRO program in this catalog rebuilds around that fact or it hits a ceiling.

The picture we drew was a store that recognized the rider at the door and stayed with her through the aisles. My Garage as a persistent shopper identity, not a preference saved in a cookie. Nosto reading from that identity on search, category, recommendations, on site content, and behavioral pop ups. Merchandising rules that changed at rebate season without a person editing a homepage on a Saturday morning. One signal, wired through every surface, held together by rules that keep working after the launch week ends.

My Garage persistent shopper identity on the UTV Source storefront, feeding fitment into every Nosto surface
Nosto recommendation campaigns A/B tested on UTV Source, 53 active, roughly half of historical campaigns retired through testing
My Garage persistent shopper identity on the UTV Source storefront, feeding fitment into every Nosto surface
Nosto recommendation campaigns A/B tested on UTV Source, 53 active, roughly half of historical campaigns retired through testing

How the stack was rebuilt around fitment

We migrated UTV Source from Searchspring to Nosto, architected My Garage as a persistent shopper identity, and wired the same fitment signal into search, category, recommendations, content, and behavioral pop ups. The rebuild ran on Shopify infrastructure and BigCommerce catalog logic, with Klaviyo and Meta reading the same identity downstream.

The program scaled to 173 onsite content campaigns, 53 recommendation campaigns, 53 merchandising rules, and 376 behavioral profiles running concurrently, roughly ten times what most Nosto accounts run live. Every meaningful surface is A/B tested before it scales, and roughly half of the historical recommendation campaigns were retired through testing rather than left running out of habit. We run the account the way a paid team runs an ad account, with constant iteration and ruthless removal of losers. Because the site converts dramatically better, the paid media team rebuilt the ad stack around it, pulling out of saturated, high frequency Meta inventory and reinvesting where the onsite engine pays back hardest. The internal team got their nights and weekends back. The merchandising sharpened at the same time.

How the stack was rebuilt around fitment

We migrated UTV Source from Searchspring to Nosto, architected My Garage as a persistent shopper identity, and wired the same fitment signal into search, category, recommendations, content, and behavioral pop ups. The rebuild ran on Shopify infrastructure and BigCommerce catalog logic, with Klaviyo and Meta reading the same identity downstream.

The program scaled to 173 onsite content campaigns, 53 recommendation campaigns, 53 merchandising rules, and 376 behavioral profiles running concurrently, roughly ten times what most Nosto accounts run live. Every meaningful surface is A/B tested before it scales, and roughly half of the historical recommendation campaigns were retired through testing rather than left running out of habit. We run the account the way a paid team runs an ad account, with constant iteration and ruthless removal of losers. Because the site converts dramatically better, the paid media team rebuilt the ad stack around it, pulling out of saturated, high frequency Meta inventory and reinvesting where the onsite engine pays back hardest. The internal team got their nights and weekends back. The merchandising sharpened at the same time.

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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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