Clair de Lune

01

Goal

Modernising an 80-Year Heritage Brand for Today’s Parents

Established in 1943, Clair de Lune is a beloved British heritage brand, renowned for manufacturing beautifully crafted Moses baskets and premium nursery bedding from their Manchester headquarters. With over eight decades of history and a loyal, multi-generational customer base, they needed an online presence that accurately reflected their legacy of quality and care.

Their primary objective was to migrate away from an increasingly restrictive WooCommerce setup. They needed a seamless transition to a modern Shopify ecosystem, aiming to create a highly intuitive, mobile-first shopping experience that supports busy, expectant parents while giving the internal team a much more scalable, reliable e-commerce backend.

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Barriers

The Limitations of Legacy WooCommerce Architecture

As the brand’s digital footprint grew, their existing WooCommerce platform began to struggle under the weight of an expanding product catalog and high traffic volumes. The backend management was clunky, requiring heavy maintenance and making it difficult for the internal team to run dynamic promotions or merchandise products efficiently.

For the customer, the user journey had become disjointed. Expectant parents navigating the complexities of nursery preparation need absolute clarity, but the site was experiencing slow load times, a restrictive mobile interface, and friction during the checkout process. Clair de Lune needed a digital transformation that preserved their rich history while delivering a frictionless, modern purchasing journey.

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Solution

A Seamless Shopify Migration and Heritage-Led UX Redesign

To safeguard their digital growth and elevate the brand aesthetic, we executed a comprehensive platform migration to Shopify, paired with a complete UX/UI overhaul:

• Flawless Data Migration: Moving from WooCommerce to Shopify requires extreme precision. We executed a seamless data migration, securely transferring over 80 years of brand equity, vast historical customer data, complex product variants, and SEO value without any operational downtime.
• Heritage-Led Visual Design: We redesigned the digital interface to beautifully blend their 1943 heritage with a modern e-commerce aesthetic. By utilizing warm color palettes, clean typography, and high-quality lifestyle imagery, the new site instantly instills trust and feels as premium as their hand-stitched products.
• Mobile-First Parent UX: Knowing that modern parents heavily shop via mobile, we completely streamlined the navigation and product discovery pathways. We implemented intuitive category filtering and simplified the checkout flow, ensuring a fast, stress-free purchasing experience across all devices.

04

Results

A Reliable, High-Converting Digital Ecosystem

By merging reliable Shopify architecture with an elegant, empathetic user experience, the new platform has successfully brought Clair de Lune’s rich British heritage into a modern digital era.

The seamless migration eliminated backend friction for their team, while the streamlined mobile UX immediately resonated with their audience. Since the launch of the new digital storefront, the brand has achieved:

• Data Retention
  100% successful migration of products, orders, and customer data
• Conversion Rate
  Increased across the board (Post-Launch)
• Mobile Performance
  Significant uplift in mobile engagement and checkout completion

Clair de Lune now operates on a premium, highly scalable Shopify platform, perfectly equipped to support new parents and drive the brand's growth for generations to come.