Powering Sydney’s leading online triathlon store

Fast Gear came to us with a slow, glitch-prone Joomla shop. Fifteen years and three rebuilds later it is a fast, feature-rich WooCommerce store that ranks on page one for its category and has grown online sales more than tenfold.

10×Growth in online sales
#1.4Rank, “triathlon store sydney”
15+Years, three rebuilds
Fast Gear WooCommerce storefront homepage built by Uniweb
Storefront
Fast Gear WooCommerce product page built by Uniweb
Product page
Fast Gear WooCommerce category page built by Uniweb
Catalogue
01Overview

A specialist triathlon store, trading since 1993

Fast Gear is a specialist triathlon and endurance store based in Sydney. They stock everything an athlete needs across swim, bike and run, from nutrition and wetsuits to bikes, shoes and goggles, with a catalogue of around 2,000 products serving both retail customers and trade buyers.

Client
Fast Gear
Industry
Triathlon & endurance retail
Platform
WordPress + WooCommerce
Engagement
15+ years, three rebuilds
02The Challenge

An outdated store holding the business back

When Fast Gear came to us they were running an outdated Joomla website. It was slow, offered only a basic cart flow, and could not keep up with the way the business needed to sell online. The problems were costing them customers every day.

  1. Slow, dated platform. An ageing Joomla site with only a basic cart flow and a tired interface.
  2. Payment and shipping problems. Recurring checkout failures and shipping errors that lost sales at the final step.
  3. Constant technical glitches. Ongoing faults that generated a steady stream of customer complaints and eroded trust.
03What We Built

A WooCommerce rebuild, then fifteen years of growth

We rebuilt the entire store on WordPress and WooCommerce with a modern, polished interface, a custom shipping structure, and eWAY and Stripe integrated for reliable payments. What began as a rescue project grew into a full ecommerce platform, rebuilt and extended as the business scaled.

  • Full WooCommerce rebuild from Joomla, modern and mobile-friendly
  • Two further UI redesigns, three designs in total
  • eWAY and Stripe for reliable, secure checkout
  • Custom shipping rules, including international
  • Lightspeed POS integration for unified stock
  • Custom wholesale and B2B portal for trade buyers
  • Points and rewards loyalty system
  • Custom invoicing, numbering and print labels
  • Bulk order data export
  • Ongoing maintenance across many versions
04The Results

Ranked #1 for how customers actually search

In the last 16 months alone, Fast Gear drew more than 33,000 clicks from over 1.3 million Google impressions. The numbers that matter most are the non-branded searches, the terms a brand-new triathlete types when they are ready to buy, where Fast Gear sits on page one.

33KClicks, 16 months
1.3MSearch impressions
10×Sales growth
triathlon store sydney non-branded #1.4
triathlon shop sydney non-branded #2.7
compressport australia product search #2.4
fast gear sydney brand #1.1
Google PageSpeed — before & after

Fast Gear WooCommerce store on desktop built by Uniweb

Fast Gear WooCommerce store on mobile built by Uniweb
Mobile · Before72
Desktop · Before74
Mobile · After96
Desktop · After98

Great company, bends over backwards to do more than they need to do. Have built me many sites over 15 years. Reliable and hard working, can’t praise them enough, not to mention the value for money.

John Hill — Owner, Fast Gear

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We build WooCommerce stores that are fast, reliable and built to grow, from $2,750. See our WooCommerce development service, or our Sydney ecommerce page.Built by Uniweb Technologies · Sydney