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Client: Allbranded
Role: UX Research, Quantitative Analysis, UX/UI Design
Date: 2024
Allbranded checkout redesigned with an email-first login step

Summary

Redesigned allbranded's checkout login/registration step, after research showed a 48% checkout-to-purchase rate with 14% of visitors exiting entirely at login, by replacing two competing forms with a single email-first flow.

Outcome

The email-first pattern replaced every standalone login form across the site, from checkout to product-page quote requests, consolidating multiple distinct login patterns into one and shipping to production across every market.

48% of visitors never make it from checkout to login

Across all markets, the checkout-to-purchase rate sat at 48%. Digging into the checkout journey, only 67% of visitors who started checkout moved to the next step, and 14% exited the site entirely at the login/register screen. The page only ever showed the login form in the viewport. Registration and guest checkout sat below the fold, with nothing signalling to a new visitor that those options even existed.

Checkout journey funnel chart showing drop-off at each step across seven markets

When looking closer at the checkout journey, only 67% of the visitors who start checkout move to the next step.

14% of the visitors of the login/register step exit the website.

Email first, then the right path for each visitor

We landed on an email-first authentication flow: the visitor enters only their email up front, and depending on whether it matches an existing account, is routed straight to a sign-up screen highlighting the benefits of an account, or into checkout as a guest. It replaces two competing forms fighting for attention with a single, simple decision, and the same pattern now rolls out everywhere a login was needed, from checkout to PDP quote requests, across every market.

The full email-first flow: email entry, account creation, and returning-visitor login

The same pattern, everywhere a login was needed

Guest checkout, full registration, and even product-page quote requests all now start from the same single email field, cutting the number of distinct login patterns across the site down to one.

Special production request modal using the same email-first pattern

A special production request, another place the same email-first pattern replaced a standalone form.

The same email-first modal opened as a sidebar panel from the account icon in navigation

The same modal, opened as a sidebar panel when a customer clicks the account icon in navigation.

Email-first quote request modal on a product page

The same pattern reused for quote requests on a product page.

The sign-up form beside the guest checkout form it now replaces

Full registration and guest checkout, still reachable from the same starting point, only after the email step splits the path.