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Case studies on Monetate

• Trade-price prominence: account-creation lift (Travis Perkins) , results pending

Brands shipped on Monetate

• Travis Perkins

The trade price prominence test replaced the separate trade price block on product listing and product pages with one banner showing retail and trade prices together, shown only to logged out visitors, with a click opening the site's own login form in a modal.

How my builds sit inside Monetate

Monetate gives you several ways to change a page: image, CSS, duplicate element, closable HTML, and HTML or JavaScript actions. I keep the logic in one JavaScript action with the styles in a CSS action, and leave audiences, page types and targets in the experience, where your team can read and change them without touching code.

Two action settings decide whether a build holds up. Run Once set to YES runs the code on the first track only, so a variant disappears after the next retrack. Re-check for Elements keeps Monetate looking for a selector that was not on the page at first. I set both on purpose for each action and record why in the handover, along with the GA4 events the variant sends.

Retracks: the thing to check first on a Monetate site

Monetate evaluates experiences against what the site pushes into monetateQ and sends with trackData. On a single page app the URL changes without a page load, so unless the site calls trackData again Monetate still thinks the visitor is on the first page. Two rules from the retrack documentation catch most teams out: the queue is emptied on every trackData call, and a retrack has to resend everything, page type included, even if nothing changed.

// Retrack after a client side route change to a product page.
// Everything is sent again: the queue was cleared by the last trackData.
window.monetateQ = window.monetateQ || [];
window.monetateQ.push(["setPageType", "product"]);
window.monetateQ.push(["addProductDetails", ["a123"]]);
window.monetateQ.push(["trackData"]);

A route change is a real page view, so that call stays as it is. For updates within one page, such as a filter or a quick view, I ask for { "nonPageView": true } on trackData so page view counts are not inflated, and I keep retracks away from events that fire often, because Monetate limits them to 27 a minute. Where an action should not rerun, a retrack category sent with addCategories lets the experience exclude it.

Sync tag, async tag and flicker

Monetate ships a synchronous tag (entry.js plus custom.js) and a single asynchronous one. Its flicker guidance says content masks are served from entry.js, so they only exist on the sync tag, and a new mask can take up to 30 minutes to cache after an experience goes live. I check which tag you run before quoting. On sync sites I scope the mask to the changed elements; on async sites the hide lives in my action instead, and I QA after the cache window, not straight after activation.

The part that is the same on every platform

Inside the action, the code meets the standard I hold on any tool: route aware activation, hiding only what changes, inputs React registers, waiting for late elements, and keyboard support for anything new. The A/B test developer page covers it, with more in stopping flicker and accessible variants.

How pricing works

Submit a brief and you get an hour estimate back within one UK business day, with a total you approve before any work starts. A single test usually takes between 2 and 20 build hours: a copy or layout change sits near the bottom of that range, a new component or a multi step flow near the top. Regular volume earns a discounted rate, and there is no lock-in: one-off builds are as welcome as a weekly commitment.