Cineworld website relaunch increases sales and visits

Cineworld website relaunch increases sales and visits

 In Cineworld, Development, Integration, iOS, Technical, Vista

Working in close collaboration with Can Factory and the team from Globant (formal we are experience), Cineworld undertook a major redesign of their eCommerce solutions during the course of 2012, which resulted in significant increases to both sales and visits.

Regan Andrew, Cineworld’s Head of eCommerce, led the redesign project and is responsible for all online sales as well as Cineworld’s phone booking line.

“The new site is connected to all the cinemas in real time and integrates with other third party systems, which are outside of our control.”

Can Factory’s role was central to coordinating the integration of our bespoke web application with a number of new third parties, whilst introducing improvements to existing systems. This included:

  • Stored Values Solutions for online gift card redemption
  • Apache Solr for on-site film, cinema filtering and search functionality
  • SciVisum for a load testing and multi-site intelligent monitoring service
  • Lumata for the delivery of a PruHealth and Mars online voucher code redemption
  • Microsoft Dynamics integration for a back-office CRM

The project last almost 12-months and included the launch of a Cineworld’s new Android mobile app.

Simultaneously Can Factory worked with Cineworld’s eCommerce and IT teams to coordinate the integration of the web application with a major IT transformation project involving the migration over to Cineworld’s new Vista Entertainment back office systems. This included the integration of new Vista back-office functionality to deliver support for the sale of online concessions.

“The integration project went really well. For such a big project it was one of the smoothest I’ve ever undertaken in terms of the technology. The new website has delivered significant gains with major improvements in both conversion rates and visits.” confirms Andrews.

As a result of these combined improvements, Cineworld’s online sales increased  by nearly 30% between 2012 and the first part of 2013, which also coincided with a significant overall increase to customer traffic.

The success of the new site helped achieve Cineworld’s highest position as the 25th most visited e-retail website in the UK in the IMRG-Experian Hitwise Hot Shops List of the top 50 UK e-retailers. (Source: Interactive Media in Retail Group IMRG & Experian – August 2013).

This continued the upward trend that began when Can Factory started working with Cineworld in 2008 and we first helped Cineworld overtake both Vue (2009) and Odeon (2010) in the Hitwise Hot Shops List. Cineworld haven’t fallen behind again since 2010, and Can Factory are looking forward to helping Cineworld continue to maintain that position in future, as well as ensuring continued gains in both conversion rates and visits.

What the client has to say

  • Can Factory have helped Cineworld to define and implement our digital strategy across multiple channels for more than eight years. The long-term partnership built with Can Factory has never ceased to impress, and they have helped ensure that we have consistently maximised the potential of all of our digital channels to drive sales, and improve customer acquisition and retention.

    Justin Skinner Cineworld VP Marketing

  • The integration project went really well. For such a big project it was one of the smoothest I’ve ever undertaken in terms of the technology. The new website has delivered significant gains with major improvements in both conversion rates and visits.

    Regan Andrew Cineworld - Head of eCommerce

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