How Webhaus moved Olieve & Olie, a Mornington Peninsula natural skincare brand, from a DIY Squarespace site to a Shopify store built to sell online.
Having built the business on Squarespace, we quickly realized that to win in the e‑commerce market, a Shopify build makes more sense. The Squarespace site was DIY and needed a more professional touch with better copy, content, and product pages. We completely rebuilt the site.
The challenge
Our challenge was to move a family-owned skincare brand off a DIY Squarespace site and onto a platform built for selling.
The client approached us with a goal to compete properly in e-commerce rather than run a shopfront that happened to sell online.
- A DIY Squarespace build limiting how the store could grow
- Product pages that did not do the products justice
- Copy and content underselling a handcrafted Australian brand
- E-commerce functionality constrained by the platform
The solution
We rebuilt the store on Shopify, which gives the business the checkout, product and marketing tooling a serious e-commerce operation needs and Squarespace was never going to match.
The rebuild went well beyond a platform migration. New copy and content tell the story properly, a family business on the Mornington Peninsula handcrafting skincare from Australian olive oil, and every product page was rewritten and redesigned to answer the questions customers actually have before they buy.
- A full rebuild on Shopify rather than a lift and shift
- Product pages rewritten and redesigned to convert
- Brand story given the space it deserves
- A store the team can extend as the range grows
The process
Discovery and platform.
Assessing the Squarespace site and planning the move to Shopify.
Copy and structure.
Rewriting brand and product content, and planning a structure built for browsing and buying.
Design.
Store and product pages designed on a consistent system.
Build and handover.
Developed and migrated to Shopify, tested, launched, and handed over with training.
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A new website. A campaign. Better search performance. An update that should have happened last week.
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