WorkReady-to-wear fashion, Australia · Order value
Outfits, not items, at a considered price point.
Editorial merchandising and collection logic engineered so a second piece feels obvious rather than upsold.
The context
Palm Bee sells ready-to-wear at accessible-premium prices, with cardigans near $69 and dresses near $99, plus jewellery and accessories. At that price the basket is decided by styling confidence rather than by discount depth: a customer who can picture the outfit buys two pieces, a customer who cannot buys one and hesitates on fit.
The store had strong collection identity, a free shipping threshold above $150 and free returns. What it did not have was a merchandising path that carried a customer from one liked piece to the complete look.
What we looked at
- Colour and collection paths, to see where customers dropped between one product and the next.
- The relationship between the shipping threshold and the average basket, and whether the gap was ever surfaced usefully.
- How the accessories and jewellery ranges were positioned relative to garments.
- Returns language, since free returns is an AOV instrument when it is stated where the risk is felt.
The interventions
What changed, and why it should work.
- 01
Merchandised the look
Built editorial pairing so the natural next click was the piece that completes the outfit, in the same colour story, rather than a generic related-products row.
- 02
Used the threshold honestly
Surfaced distance to free shipping as a styling prompt at the right moment, instead of a cart-page nudge that reads as pressure.
- 03
Made hedging cheap
Brought the free-returns promise forward on garments where sizing was the recurring doubt in reviews, so a two-size order stopped feeling reckless.
- 04
Gave accessories a job
Positioned jewellery and accessories as finishing decisions attached to garments rather than a separate department to be discovered.
What became true
- The path from one liked piece to a complete outfit became a designed route, not a coincidence.
- Free returns started doing commercial work instead of sitting in the footer.
- Accessories entered the decision at the moment they are actually considered.
Where this transfers
Fashion and boutique stores whose basket ceiling is styling confidence, not price sensitivity.
More work
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