Nest Designs

How Nest Designs merged four Shopify instances into one and grew organic traffic 31%

Nest Designs makes soft, sustainably made baby pyjamas and sleep products, with a loyal following of new parents. Growth had left them running two brands and two retail stores on four separate Shopify instances. We brought it all onto one composable stack, with fast pages and the URL control their SEO needed.

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At a glance

What we did, and what it runs on.

Results
  • +
    15
    %

    Conversion rate

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    19
    %

    Cart abandons

challenge

What was holding them back.

Nest Designs came to us with an SEO problem. Shopify's fixed URL structure limited how far they could grow search traffic, and technical debt had slowed their pages. Their SEO agency wanted custom URLs and faster pages, and a headless frontend could deliver both.

Discovery found a bigger problem underneath. Success had led to a second brand, Petite Revery, and two retail stores in Richmond and Vancouver. One Shopify store had become four instances, an online store for each brand and a Shopify POS instance in each shop. The team was stretched across brands, regions and channels.

There was a growth problem too. Baby sleepwear has a short customer lifespan, so moving Nest Designs families on to Petite Revery's toddler apparel mattered. With separate systems, that handoff was hard to do while keeping two distinct brands.

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Nest Designs
Nest Designs
SEO was the trigger. Four Shopify instances were the real problem.
strategy

How we approached it.

A headless frontend on its own would have fixed SEO while making the four-instance problem worse. A composable architecture solved both in one move.

Today, Nest Designs runs on one shared foundation for product, inventory, customer, order and retail data. Each brand keeps its own distinct look and feel, and the same foundation is ready for new brands, regions, stores and channels without adding more systems along the way.

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Nest Designs
Nest Designs
One shared foundation, two distinct brands.

solution

What we built.

To support their next stage of growth, we implemented a composable architecture on top of Shopify Plus. That let them run a multi-brand, multi-region and multi-currency experience through one flexible ecommerce foundation.

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Nest Designs
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outcome

Where it landed and what's next.

The new platform delivered on both fronts. Organic search traffic grew 31% year over year after launch, and top 3 keyword rankings climbed 140%.

Pages now load their largest content in under a second, and the team manages one Shopify instance instead of four.

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