Vistaprint has an interesting order and checkout process. There is lots of cross-sell and a decent amount of persuasion tactics used.
A few years ago, the website was all sorts of wrong, as Graham Charlton detailed, beaten only by GoDaddy.
Things have moved on and I must say that I don’t think it’s too complicated any more. There are a number of steps to the order process and to the checkout process but that was to be expected when designing a customised t-shirt (my chosen product).
Cross-sell and upsell is now presented on pages where I already feel assured the design process is going well.
Mainly there was a lot of clear information and some fairly persuasive copy and design techniques which I think has been judged correctly.
However, the company must be careful to keep cross-sell relevant. After being offered similar products, stationery and the like, I was then offered website builds and marketing services. This felt wrong and made me think the process might become more tiresome. If I was busier, I could have abandoned at this point.
See what you think of each stage of the order process..