Custom WooCommerce Store for Peerless Umbrella (B2B & Wholesale)

Built by WebbyCrown Solutions (2019), this custom WooCommerce store transformed Peerless Umbrella, a leading umbrella manufacturer in Newark, NJ, from an offline wholesale business into a modern eCommerce brand. With dynamic quantity-based pricing, AI-powered product chatbot, and Mailchimp integration, the site delivers a seamless mobile-first shopping experience for B2B buyers, retailers, and wholesalers across the USA, Canada, and Europe.

Website

peerlessumbrella.com

Country

USA · Canada · Europe

Page Speed

SiteGround + Cloudflare CDN

Solution

WooCommerce with role-based pricing, AI & smart tools

Industry

Umbrella Mfg & Distribution (B2B/Retail/Wholesale)

Results

Fast site, 6–15 orders, bulk & engagement

About Them

Peerless Umbrella is a long-established umbrella manufacturer and distributor based in Newark, New Jersey, serving the promotional products industry for over 90 years. Recognized as a trusted partner for retailers, wholesalers, and B2B buyers, the brand offers an extensive catalog of umbrellas, bags, and outdoor lifestyle products. Known for its fast turnaround, reliable quality, and customer-first service, Peerless has been voted a “Distributor’s Choice Best Umbrella Supplier” for 15 consecutive years, cementing its reputation as a market leader across the USA, Canada, and Europe.

With a strong offline presence and a legacy of innovation, Peerless wanted to expand digitally and deliver the same dependable experience online. By partnering with WebbyCrown Solutions, the company transformed its traditional sales model into a scalable WooCommerce-powered eCommerce platform. The new site reflects Peerless’s premium identity with a mobile-first design, dynamic pricing, and AI-driven customer support—helping the brand engage a wider audience and streamline the buying process for bulk orders worldwide.

Client Goals

Peerless Umbrella wanted to expand its legacy manufacturing business into the digital space with a scalable WooCommerce store that could serve B2B buyers, wholesalers, and retail clients worldwide. The objective was to create a brand-accurate online experience that reflected their premium reputation while making it easier for customers to browse, customize, and purchase products online.

Build a modern WooCommerce website that translates Peerless’s established brand identity into a seamless, mobile-first eCommerce platform.
Implement dynamic quantity-based pricing to support bulk orders and role-based pricing for B2B customers.
Integrate an AI-powered chatbot to simplify product discovery (by size, color, or type) and provide instant order tracking via order ID.
Enable Mailchimp integration for marketing automation and customer engagement.
Ensure fast load times and high performance with SiteGround WordPress hosting and Cloudflare CDN optimization.
Deliver a user-friendly search experience with autocomplete functionality to reduce friction during product discovery.
Provide ongoing support and maintenance to keep the platform secure, optimized, and scalable.

This approach ensured that Peerless could preserve its brand authority offline while unlocking new digital growth opportunities in the USA, Canada, and Europe.

Solution

To bring Peerless Umbrella’s offline success into the digital space, WebbyCrown Solutions designed and developed a custom WooCommerce platform tailored to the needs of a B2B-first umbrella manufacturer. Our team focused on delivering a mobile-first experience, ensuring that the site performed flawlessly across devices while reflecting Peerless’s long-standing brand identity through consistent colors, fonts, and custom graphics.

From a functionality standpoint, we implemented dynamic quantity-based pricing through a custom plugin, enabling the client to set tiered pricing and role-based discounts for wholesalers and bulk buyers. To improve product discovery, we integrated an autocomplete search function that displays live product results while typing, making it easy for customers to find items across umbrellas, bags, and outdoor products.

We also introduced an AI-powered chatbot that assists customers in real time—helping them select the right product by size, color, or category, and even providing instant order status updates via order ID. For marketing and customer retention, we connected the store with Mailchimp, enabling automated campaigns and newsletters to strengthen client relationships.

On the performance side, the site was deployed on SiteGround’s WordPress hosting with Cloudflare CDN for enhanced speed, reliability, and global reach. Version control via GitHub and design collaboration in Figma ensured smooth project execution across design, development, QA, and SEO teams.

This comprehensive solution not only captured Peerless Umbrella’s brand authority but also provided a future-ready eCommerce system that continues to scale and evolve with their business needs.

Key Challenges

Peerless Umbrella came to us with a strong offline reputation but no scalable online presence. Translating a decades-old wholesale business into an intuitive eCommerce experience required solving several competing constraints: maintaining the brand’s trusted, premium identity while supporting complex B2B workflows (bulk orders, role-based pricing), and offering a simple, fast shopping path for retail customers. Specific challenges included:

Offline-first operations with no dynamic pricing or online catalog for bulk buyers.
A large catalog of variable products (multiple sizes, colors, styles) that needed clear presentation and easy filtering.
The need to provide tiered quantity pricing and role-based discounts without confusing the checkout flow.
Faster product discovery for busy buyers — search and navigation had to be near-instant.
Customer support friction: customers wanted instant answers (product fit, availability, order status) without long phone delays.
Performance, reliability and global delivery concerns for buyers in USA, Canada and Europe.
A requirement to preserve brand visuals and deliver a mobile-first experience across devices.

Final Implementation & Strategic Solutions

To address these challenges we delivered a focused, phased implementation that balanced design fidelity with scalable eCommerce engineering.

Strategic approach (summary): build a mobile-first, brand-accurate WooCommerce storefront; add commerce logic for bulk/B2B buyers; automate discovery & support using an AI-powered chatbot; and optimize hosting and delivery for international reach.

What we implemented (key elements):

Custom quantity-based pricing plugin & role-based pricing rules so wholesalers and bulk buyers see clear tier pricing on product pages and at cart.
Variable product architecture with structured attributes (size, color, material) and clear variant galleries to reduce selection errors.
AI-powered chatbot integrated site-wide to help customers find products by color/size/type, suggest related items, and return real-time order status when supplied with an order ID — reducing support load and speeding decisions.
Autocomplete product search for instant suggestions while typing, improving findability for large catalogs.
Mailchimp integration for automated lifecycle emails (order confirmations, follow-ups, re-engagement) to drive retention.
Performance stack: SiteGround WordPress hosting + Cloudflare CDN, image optimization, caching rules and compressed assets to improve LCP and global response times.
Design & UX: pixel-faithful, mobile-first templates derived from Figma, with visible quantity-break savings, prominent bulk-order CTAs, and accessible microcopy for order lookups.
Devops & quality: GitHub version control, staged testing, and iterative rollouts with client training for product/catalog management.
Ongoing maintenance plan: scheduled plugin updates, backups and periodic performance tuning to keep the store secure and fast.

How the AI chatbot contributed: beyond conversational product help, the chatbot acts as a guided sales assistant — it filters inventory by customer prompts (e.g., “navy vented umbrella, 48””), surfaces matching SKUs, explains quantity-break pricing, and fetches order shipping/status by order ID. This reduced reliance on email/phone and shortened the path from discovery to purchase.

Conclusion

The PeerlessUmbrella.com project turned a long-standing offline leader into a functioning, scalable WooCommerce storefront that meets both B2B and retail needs. By combining dynamic quantity-based pricing, fast product discovery, Mailchimp automation and an AI-driven chatbot, we preserved Peerless’s brand authority while removing key friction points for buyers across the USA, Canada and Europe. The result: a mobile-first, high-performance platform that continues to generate consistent weekly orders (6–15/week), improves customer engagement, and provides a maintainable foundation for future growth.

“Working with WebbyCrown was a great experience. They delivered a brand-faithful, high-performance WooCommerce site, implemented custom quantity-based pricing for our bulk customers, and integrated an AI chatbot that answers product queries and returns order status — reducing our phone and email load. Their team was responsive throughout design, development and launch, and continues to provide dependable maintenance. The new store has made it simple for our wholesale and retail buyers to find and order products online.”

MIK Rodriguez,

– Peerless Umbrella

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