RPS
CRO Testing Roadmap
June 2026
Three test concepts for June, drawn from 1,327 Shopify orders, 96 Judge.me product reviews, 106 Google Business reviews, 90 days of Fairing post-purchase surveys, and the Intelligems test history. Every concept built to carry forward to the new theme.
Data we looked at
Sales Data
Shopify
1,327 orders
1,327 orders
Product Reviews
Judge.me
96 reviews
96 reviews
Business Reviews
Google
106 reviews
106 reviews
Post-Purchase
Fairing
90 days
90 days
Test History
Intelligems
RPS-01 to 02B
RPS-01 to 02B
1
Why we're testing
When a customer adds a pump to cart today, a slim dropdown notification appears at the top of the page. With an $865 average order and roughly 1 in 3 carts holding multiple items, that dropdown isn't enough surface for the customer to feel confident before checkout. We replace it with a full side drawer that shows every line item, a free-shipping progress bar, and the trust signals customers tell us they're looking for: a real person on the phone, lifetime US-based tech support, pro right-to-repair.
Concept illustration only. Final design and copy will be confirmed in mockups before launch.
Evidence
| Signal | Source |
|---|---|
| 31% of orders contain two or more genuine products (pump + cable, valve, fittings, splice kit). The current top dropdown gives them no room to review what they've added before checkout. | Shopify orders · 90 days · 1,327 orders |
| $865 average order, with the top quarter over $1,100. On a considered purchase like this, the slim top dropdown doesn't give customers room to review what they've added without leaving the page they were on. A side drawer expands the surface and keeps them in flow, with the trust signals (real person on the phone, lifetime US tech support) visible at the exact moment of hesitation. | Shopify orders · 90 days |
| "A real person answered the phone" is the most-cited brand reassurance across three sources: Fairing (~8% rescued by rep), Judge.me (15% credit a rep in their review), Google (30+ named-rep callouts). | Fairing + Judge.me + Google reviews · 90 days |
2
Why we're testing
Customers tell us in nine separate reviews that they received a pump and were missing the fitting, splice kit, pitless adapter, or torque arrestor they actually needed to install it. We add a "Complete Your Install" module to pump product pages that names what else the customer will need, drawing from RPS's existing bundles (the One-and-Done kit is one example) so the recommendations come from products RPS already sells together. Final product list and which pump pages to pilot on confirmed with the client.
Concept illustration only. Pump-to-kit compatibility mapping confirmed with client before launch. Accessory items link to their own PDPs so customers can verify sizing.
Evidence
| Signal | Source |
|---|---|
| 9 customers across Judge.me and Google reviews describe receiving a pump and being missing the fitting, splice kit, pitless adapter, or torque arrestor they needed. Pitless adapter sizing is the most-cited sub-pattern. | Judge.me + Google reviews · 90 days |
| The "One and Done Well Poly Drop Pipe Kit" appears in 87 multi-product orders over 90 days. The bundle SKU already exists with pre-confirmed parts; we're surfacing what's already selling, not inventing it. | Shopify orders · 90 days |
| 17% of Fairing post-purchase free-text responses are about spec uncertainty — variants of "I wasn't sure what else I needed" and "I had to call to figure out what to add." The PDP isn't answering the question; customers are calling the rep instead. | Fairing post-purchase survey · 90 days |
3
Why we're testing
The RPS homepage today is product tiles. Visitors never hear who RPS is, why the brand exists, or what makes it different from the dug-in distributor model most pump shoppers know. We add a founder-led brand story block to the homepage that tells the mission directly: rural America deserves to buy pumps direct, install them themselves, and have a real person on the phone when needed. Customer savings claims and DIY-confidence verbatims sit underneath as supporting proof, not as the lead.
Concept illustration only. Founder photo, story copy, and final placement on the homepage to be confirmed with the client. Customer quotes shown beneath are real and pulled from Google Business Reviews.
Evidence
| Signal | Source |
|---|---|
| The brand positioning was stated plainly by RPS: "We are disruptive to the current way people buy well pumps. Thousands of dollars cheaper than our dug-in, long-standing competitors." That message is absent from the homepage today. | Internal brand-direction thread · 2026-03-16 |
| At least 6 unprompted dollar-savings claims in 90 days of Google reviews: $762 saved (George Jamison), "would have charged me twice" (Ulrike), "saved about half" (Joel & Stefani), and others. Real customer quotes already in the public record, ready to use. | Google Business Reviews · 106 reviews |
| DIY-confidence is the brand promise customers actually verbalize: "RPS gave me the confidence to tackle this myself" (guy dobitz), "With RPS I can Do it Myself knowing they are there to help me" (jim haga). Local Guides with hundreds of reviews are saying it. | Google Business Reviews · 106 reviews |