Throughout much of the past year, we’ve been working to add several new features to Samtec.com that make finding a mated set (two connectors that mate to one another), easier than ever.
It started with a new generation of our Solutionator tools, with the release of the Flex Stacking Solutionator and High-Speed Board-to-Board Solutionator, which we released in late 2021. Recently we’ve released two new updates to our product pages which take advantage of this data as well.
Series Mates Block Upgrade in Product Pages
For years, we have presented our series mates in a simple dropdown box with text selections. This worked well enough, but wasn’t very “eComm-centric”. In an effort to present a more graphical approach to finding series mates, we updated this section of our product pages to a graphical approach from the start.
Once users click on the Mates tab or navigate to it using a link, they’ll be presented with series images, links, and descriptions all in one block, rather than having to interact with a dropdown box first. This makes choosing a mate faster and easier.
Take a look at an example of this on our SEAF series page.
Direct Mate Suggestions on Board Stacking Products
One of the most difficult things about our industry and the products we sell is that most often our customers need them in mated sets, or two products that fit together. The issue with that is there are limitless combinations of products that will mate together.
With this update to the website, we’re a step closer to solving that problem for a good portion of our board-stacking products. We’ve made use of our mated set data that we use in our Solutionator tools to present users with pre-selected mated sets where appropriate.
For example, if a user is on this TMM product page, they’ll see a small callout area above the pricing grid that says “View Mating Products” with a link to the mates. Once the user clicks that, they’ll see the mate(s) our product engineers have chosen.
For qualifying products, this makes it extremely easy to get a mated set.
It’s Never Been Easier to Find a Mated Set
Through these several updates, finding a mated set on Samtec.com is getting easier by the day. We also have a couple new tools similar to the Solutionators we mentioned above, as well as plans to add our mating data to our Cart page so users can add mates directly from there.
Coming Soon to Samtec.com
That does it for now. Thanks for being a loyal reader of The Samtec Blog.
Here is what we’re currently working on, and a few other updates that are coming soon!
- Continued upgrades to our e-commerce experience throughout the website
- Upgraded checkout features
- An updated way to find Optical products
- An updated way to manage orders online
- A design upgrade to our Mated Set view
- And more!
Keep an eye out for these updates and more coming soon.
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