The Challenges

“Our old search experience wasn’t providing relevant results, and website visitors weren’t finding what they were looking for. Algolia provided a good quality out-of the-box solution to this problem without us having to invest too much of our technical team’s time.”
Jay Chinthrajah – V.P. of Engineering – M.M. LaFleur

The Solution: Integrate Algolia with Magento

Highstreet.io was asked by M.M. LaFleur to integrate the Algolia search engine with their Magento platform. By using Highstreet.io to synchronize the product data from Magento to Algolia, M.M. LaFleur could offer an accurate and relevant search experience on their website

To integrate M.M. LaFleur’s growing product catalog with their new Algolia search engine, Highstreet.io monodirectionally transferred the data from Magento to M.M. LaFleur’s Algolia website search engine. Using simple standard API calls, we were able to update the entire catalog.

• Step1 Gather technical requirements from M.M. Lafleur and Algolia for the integration.

• Step2 Assign a dedicated project manager and decide on an efficient and effective workflow that didn’t bog down M.M. LaFleur but allowed for quick and easy collaboration

• Step3 Leverage our existing M.M. LaFleur Magento integration with the Highstreet.io platform to integrate the website product data with Algolia and continually synchronize it to display the most current information.

“Hightreet.io worked with Algolia directly, involving M.M. LaFleur only when needed, to complete the product data integration with our Magento platform. Most of the communication between us was through a collaboration hub called Slack which made it easy to see where the project was at and get questions answered quickly. We were happy how fast both Algolia and Highstreet.io worked together to get the job done with a very positive result.”
Rachel Flynn – Director of Product & UX – M.M. LaFleur

The Value of the Solution

“Using Highstreet.io for our Algolia integration was a cost-effective and speedy solution that took the load off of M.M. Lafleur’s technical resources. Highstreet.io worked independently, without tying up M.M. LaFleur’s resources, and collaboratively, with the Algolia team, to seamlessly integrate our product data from Magento to Algolia. The pre-existing native integration of the Highstreet.io platform with M.M. LaFleur’s Magento platform helped to expedite the product data integration with Algolia.”
Jay Chinthrajah – V.P. of Engineering – M.M. LaFleur

The Results

A richer website search experience providing timely and relevant search results.

“We are now able to relate products to out of stock results, customize search results depending on what customer was searching for, change the sort order and access quality analytics to understand what people were looking for on their website. The decision to integrate Algolia with Magento, using Highstreet.io, was an easy one.”
Jay Chinthrajah – V.P. of Engineering – M.M. LaFleur

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