The use case: how DonorsChoose deploys Algolia
DonorsChoose uses Algolia InstantSearch and the Algolia Search API to power a unified teacher shop that lets teachers search products from many education vendors, replacing a fragmented set of separate vendor shopping experiences. It also uses Click & Conversion Analytics and Rules.
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From 37% of new teachers successfully submitting projects, the organization has seen a jump over just one quarter to 48%.
With the Algolia-powered functionality in place, teachers can now use the online shop to search and find anything DonorsChoose can supply them, from a host of more than 580,000 indexed products and over one million SKUs.
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From 37% of new teachers successfully submitting projects, the organization has seen a jump over just one quarter to 48%. That’s a 30% year-over-year increase in conversions for new teachers (and even higher on mobile).