Challenge

Matches Fashion is one of the foremost multi-brand luxury fashion eCommerce sites in the world, and also one of the fastest-growing eCommerce operations in Europe.

Matches Fashion’s rapid growth is driven by digital and directly enabled by technology – in the past 5 years, they have gone from a small minority to over 85% of sales being digital. They built a strong in-house tech team to drive this and were seeking an equally strong external team who could compliment and augment their internal development capabilities. In particular, one who had sufficient skills in the very modern set of development technologies that they use. They spoke to a trusted peer and was recommended One Beyond.

Solution

One Beyond provided a solution to manage the flow of new products in Matches’ studio through all the stages they go through to be sellable online with all the information, content, imagery and video that their customers need. They set One Beyond a deadline to provide a robust, flexible and production ready solution in time for the peak of the next season, which was just six weeks away.

One Beyond created Studio Manager, a spreadsheet-like UI allowing a large number of users to update and filter many thousands of rows of data, concurrently and in real-time.

This was a big step in making studio workflow more efficient and allowed Matches Fashion to scale the process commensurate with their rapid growth and get products online faster. The Studio Production team are very happy with the results and are looking forward to working with the One Beyond team again in the future.

We gave them a very challenging brief and the One Beyond team pulled out all the stops to get the right solution in place.

Sam Lowe, CTO, Matches Fashion