
Benifex
Increasing sales by 45% with eGift card checkout integration
The goal was to migrate the gift card checkout journey from a third party provider onto the Benifex Discounts product. This would allow us to accurately record purchases and generate extra revenue for the business.
My role
UX Designer
Duration
3 months
Team
1 UX Designer, 1 UX Researcher, 2 FE, 2 BE, 1 QA and 1 PM
Highlights

decrease in Gift Card related queries
increase in transactions
Defining the Problem
What does the journey look like?
Auditing the current gift card check out journey exposed branding inconsistencies which confuse user's. Employees have no understanding of who 'Benefex' are so coming from a customer branded Discounts product to a 'Benefex' branded transaction area causes uncertainty.

Existing third party user flow

Notes from competitor analysis
Why isn't it working?
Lacking analytics due to the experience being on a third party platform, we ran a series of user interviews with a mix of participants; those who had bought gift cards on the product before and those who hadn't. These revealed two key insights:
Pricing clarity issues
Some user's found it difficult distinguishing which price they would be paying for the gift card
User's can't see the gift cards they have previously bought
"I wouldn't know where to find it again. And let's say I lost the email or it doesn't come through. I don't know where to find any record that I've bought a gift card"
Participant commenting on the lack of purchase history and storage
How do we improve the user journey?
We ran a collaborative user journey workshop with the PM, Engineering Lead and Global Partnerships team to help document all the key user actions, needs and pain points.

Notes from user journey workshop

New gift card checkout user flow
Design
Purchasing and redeeming gift cards in as few clicks as possible. User's can easily access their purchases in one place as well as see their purchase history.
My Savings area
Basket & Checkout

What do users think?
We ran 5 moderated user tests with the same participants used in the discovery user interviews. We also externally tested the prototype on Lyssna with 50 unmoderated participants.
mean user rating, on a likert scale of 1-5, when asked how easy did you find this task?
Basket functionality
Users were expecting to see a basket option alongside the 'Buy now' button.
"I couldn't see the menu or content I was looking for unless I scrolled down".
Participant commenting on conversion content being hidden below viewpoint.
MVP

Impact
Because the Discounts product now houses the transactions for eGift card purchases, there are now multiple new revenue streams for the company including brand promotion and advertising as well as money made from purchases.
generated in total sales (first month)
increase in transactions
decrease in Gift Card related queries
Enhanced insights and analytics

