Leekes
Built a Magento 2 Omnichannel Store for Furniture and Home Improvement Retail
200%
Sales Growth
50%
Faster Search
35%
Faster Page Loads
99.9%
Platform Uptime
Leekes is a UK-based omnichannel retailer offering furniture, homeware, kitchens, bathrooms, and home improvement products. Its network of physical stores and digital commerce platform helps customers explore and purchase products across multiple home and lifestyle categories.
Country
UK
Duration
6 Months
Industry
Furniture Retail
Services
eCommerce Strategy & Discovery UI/UX Redesign Magento 2 Development eCommerce Data Migration ERP & Payment Integration Cloud Deployment & Support
Technologies
Magento 2 PHP MySQL Elasticsearch Redis AWS Cloud
Problem Statement
Problem Statement The existing eCommerce store could no longer support growing traffic, expanding product data, or connected retail operations. Leekes needed a Magento 2 platform that improved shopping experiences while integrating online sales with stores, finance, inventory, and ERP systems.
Challenges
- Migrating extensive product, customer, and order data to Magento 2 without disrupting operations.
- Connecting the eCommerce platform with physical retail stores and the existing POS system.
- Improving product discovery across a large and diverse home improvement catalog.
- Synchronizing orders, products, finance, inventory, and supply chain data with Microsoft Navision.
- Supporting flexible payment, financing, quotation, and location-based shopping journeys.
- Building a scalable infrastructure capable of handling traffic and transaction growth.
Solution
- Bytes Technolab redesigned and redeveloped the existing eCommerce store on Magento 2 to improve usability, performance, and product discovery. The existing website data was migrated to the new platform to support a smooth transition.
- Elasticsearch was implemented to help customers find products more efficiently across the extensive furniture and home improvement catalog. A postcode-based search option also enabled users to explore products based on their location.
- The Magento 2 store was integrated with Leekes’ POS system and Microsoft Navision ERP to connect online commerce with retail stores, orders, products, finance, supply chain, and analytics.
- Hitachi Finance and Apple Pay were integrated to provide flexible and convenient payment options. A custom quotation module allowed users to request product-specific quotes, while Magento Page Builder enabled the creation of dynamic pages.
- The platform was supported by AWS Cloud, Redis, caching, autoscaling, database replication, and security configurations to improve scalability, stability, and overall performance.
Result
Leekes transformed its legacy eCommerce store into a scalable Magento 2 platform connecting online shopping with physical stores, finance systems, inventory, and business operations.
- 200% sales growth in the first month followed the launch of the redesigned store and improved purchasing experience.
- 50% faster product discovery was supported by Elasticsearch, improved navigation, and location-based product searches.
- 35% faster page loading improved browsing across product-heavy categories and mobile shopping journeys.
- 99.9% platform uptime provided a stable commerce experience during regular operations and periods of higher demand.
Migrated a large omnichannel retail store to a scalable Magento 2 platform.
Connected eCommerce with POS, ERP, finance, inventory, and retail operations.
It’s been a pleasure to have worked with Bytes Technolab. I am consistently impressed by their ability to execute tasks as requested. They are quick learners who tackle business challenges with effective software solutions. I really appreciate their timely responses and out-of-the-box recommendations.
Travis C
Head of Marketing, Ragnar
