E-commerce / 2022

Meridian Commerce Engine

Rebuilding a decade-old checkout that was hemorrhaging revenue — cutting abandonment by 34% and adding $4.2M in annual sales.

Meridian Commerce Engine
Next.js Stripe Redis PostgreSQL Elasticsearch
Role

Full-Stack Architecture

Payments Integration

Timeline

4 Months Delivery

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The Challenge

A legacy checkout that was costing sales.

The client's decade-old checkout flow had a 74% cart abandonment rate. Page loads exceeded 8 seconds, and the payment system hadn't been updated since 2015, blocking modern payment methods entirely.

The Solution

Sub-second checkout with edge-cached product pages.

We rebuilt the storefront on Next.js with Incremental Static Regeneration and a Redis-cached cart. Stripe Elements replaced the legacy processor, adding Apple Pay, Google Pay, and BNPL out of the box.

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The Impact

Quantifiable improvements across technical and business metrics.

+34%

Conversion rate increase in the first month post-launch.

0.8s

Time to Interactive on the new checkout flow.

+$4.2M

Incremental annual revenue attributed to the rebuild.

“We didn't realise how much the old checkout was costing us until we replaced it.”

— CMO, Meridian Retail Group

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