Flux Enviro

Project summaryA full rebuild of fluxenviro.com, moving Flux Enviro off WordPress onto a fast, custom platform with a bespoke back end built around how they actually sell, service and rent their products.

From challenge to outcome

Challenge

Flux Enviro's product range is genuinely complex. A single item might be available to buy, rent, or both, with servicing attached. Off-the-shelf e-commerce and WordPress plugins treat everything as a simple product with a price, which meant the old site was hard to navigate, hard to keep up to date, and didn't help customers find the right option for their problem. They needed a website that made sense to customers and a back end that matched the way the business operates, not the way a plugin assumes it should.

Solution

We started with the customer's problem rather than the product list. The catalogue was restructured around what customers are trying to solve, guiding them to the right equipment and the right way to get it, whether that's buying, renting or a service arrangement. Behind the scenes, we built a custom back end on our Pocket CMS platform, modelled around Flux Enviro's three product types. Their team can manage sellable, rentable and serviceable products from one place, without fighting the system or relying on workarounds. Moving from WordPress to Astro also gave the site a significant boost in speed, security and search performance.

Outcome

Traffic increased immediately after launch. Customers now have a clearer path to the right product, and the Flux Enviro team has a back end that fits their business, making it easier to manage their range and keep the site current as they grow.

Flux Enviro supplies environmental equipment that doesn't fit neatly into a standard online shop. Some products are sold outright, some are serviced on an ongoing basis, and some are available for rent. Their old WordPress site couldn't deal with the complexity of the way their products needed to be organised, and the business was working around the website rather than the website serving their way of working.

We rebuilt the site from the ground up on Astro, with a custom content management system and back end designed specifically for their product model. The result is a faster, clearer website for customers and a set of tools that help the Flux Enviro team run the business day to day.