SEASONAL SALES & FLASH SALES
Shopping holidays like Black Friday & Cyber Monday are the backbone of online retail, driving big sales and even bigger online traffic. Avoid ecommerce website crashes & block bots on your biggest days with a controlled, fair & seamless sales experience.
91%
of enterprises report downtime costs exceeding $300,000 per hour
92%
of customers will abandon a brand they love after just two to three negative experiences
46%
of shoppers will stop shopping with a retailer after a Black Friday website crash
- In peak situations customers will be sent to your branded waiting room with an HTTP 302 redirect
- While in the waiting room visitors are on Queue-it's infrastructure & see clear wait information
- Once it's their turn they're flowed back to your site with another HTTP 302 redirect & have a secure token confirming they've been through the queue
- Run truly exclusive sales that grant access only to identified & verified visitors
- Keep bad bots & resellers out simply by not giving them an invite
- Incentivize loyalty program sign-ups with early or exclusive access
- Prevent Black Friday website crashes from bot-driven spikes & give other bot tools more time to identify malicious behavior
- Add a security checkpoint to your flow so you can slow down bots & run security checks like Proof-of-Work challenges or data center hard blocking
- Get automatic threat detection & real-time alerts on unusual traffic behavior
"Since implementing Queue-it to our digital platforms, we can successfully hold our large-scale digital sales without the risk of failure ... The Queue-it integration was very simple, and the entire experience worked seamlessly with our native app. The consumer experience was uninterrupted from queue to checkout!"
Laura Poatsy, Mobile Experience SupervisoR
"The virtual waiting room reacts to and controls our traffic instantaneously, and if we need to make any changes, we can easily do it on the spot with the API or the dashboard. The benefit is real, and the ‘sérénite’ is real, too.”
Thibaud Simond, Infrastructure Manager
"Queue-it is a great solution that saves the day and it works flawlessly ... It made everything more pleasant for the customer experience and the social media complaints disappeared."
Robert Williams, Digital Manager
85%
of customers sell through product more efficiently with Queue-it
84%
say their customers' online experience has improved after using Queue-it
33%
is the average database scaling savings with Queue-it in place
* Based on 214 survey responses from Queue-it customers (2023 & 2024). See the results.
- Black Friday
- Cyber Monday
- Singles' Day
- Click Frenzy
- Summer sales
- Flash sales
Resource
Black Friday guide: Hidden risks of web traffic overload
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