Cutting Cart Abandonment by Rebuilding Checkout From Scratch
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Cutting Cart Abandonment by Rebuilding Checkout From Scratch

Cutting Cart Abandonment by Rebuilding Checkout From Scratch

Overview

<p>Lumen &amp; Co. was running a visually strong fashion store with healthy traffic, but a cart abandonment rate well above industry benchmarks. Customers were adding items to their cart consistently but leaving before completing payment at a rate the brand could not explain internally.</p>

Challenges

<p>Checkout required account creation before purchase, shipping costs were revealed only on the final step, and the process spanned five separate pages. Mobile checkout, which accounted for most of Lumen&#39;s traffic, was noticeably slower and harder to complete than desktop.</p>

Solutions

We rebuilt checkout as a streamlined two-step flow with guest checkout enabled by default, shipping costs shown clearly before the final step, and a mobile-first redesign tested specifically on real mid-range devices rather than only newer phones. Trust badges were placed directly next to the payment field rather than buried elsewhere on the site.

Results

Cart abandonment dropped meaningfully within the first month post-launch, with the largest improvement coming specifically from mobile checkout completions, previously the store's weakest conversion segment.

"We knew people were adding to cart and leaving, we just did not know exactly why until the audit. The new checkout paid for itself within the first few weeks." — Founder, Lumen & Co.

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Case Study Details

  • Client: Lumen & Co.
  • Category: eCommerce & Online Retail
  • Industry: Fashion & Lifestyle Brands
  • Duration: 9 Weeks
Key Metrics
  • 37% reduction in cart abandonment
  • Mobile checkout completion up 58%
  • Checkout steps reduced from 5 to 2
  • Average order value increased 12%
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