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DonorsChoose increases new teacher conversions 30% YOY with Algolia-powered unified search
DonorsChoose's teacher shopping experience required navigating more than 20 separate vendor sites of varying quality, causing only about 75% of users to complete the shopping stage while more than 90% completed every other step — a conversion gap the organization felt it lacked control to fix.
How it works
Common implementation structure
How this type of workflow is generally built, generalized across documented cases — not tied to any one vendor's stack. Click any stage to read what happens there. Specific products that implement these stages appear in “Tools commonly seen” below.
Stage 1 · Daily vendor data aggregation
Vendor data from all suppliers is gathered and stored daily to maintain up-to-date pricing and availability.
Tools used
AlgoliaAlgolia InstantSearch
Outcome
After launching Algolia-powered unified search, new teacher project completion rose from 37% to 48% in one quarter — a 30% year-over-year increase in conversions — and 9,000 new teachers were added during the back-to-school peak, with customer support tickets for the shopping experience falling as a result.
Results
Volume30%
Running since2023
Grounding & classification
Source type: vendor customer story
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