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From Wix template to editorial luxury — in one launch.

TripValet Incentives came to us with a finished rebrand, a strong product, and a Wix site that did neither justice. We built them a 7-template, 487-field WordPress site that finally answered the founder's brief: "I want someone to say holy crap, this is gorgeous."

7
Page templates designed
487+
Click-to-edit fields
Audiences routed
100%
Mobile-first responsive
Scope of work

What we handled.

Web design — editorial, image-forward
WordPress development — 7 templates
Custom child theme (Hello Elementor base)
Audience-routing UX
487-field live-edit Customizer
Brand-token system (CSS variables)
Conversion copywriting
Pre-launch ad testing (Meta)
Integrations — Calendly, Formspree, CRM
Email stack — Mailchimp + Mailgun
Analytics — GA4, GSC, GTM
Micro-interactions & animation
The client

Meet TripValet Incentives.

Not a travel agency — a SaaS incentive marketing platform. TripValet turns unsold hotel inventory into branded vacation certificates that businesses use as lead magnets, closing gifts, referral rewards, and sales contests. Real trips, no timeshare pitch. A genuinely strong product — that the old Wix site couldn't sell.

ClientTripValet Incentives
IndustrySaaS · Incentive Marketing (B2B + B2C)
AudiencesCorporate · Individual · Personal Explorer
Built onCustom WordPress child theme (Hello Elementor)
TimelineApril 2026 · 7 templates shipped

The challenge

  • A templated Wix front door that didn't match their rebrand
  • Three very different audiences hitting one confused homepage
  • Marketing team locked out — every edit meant a dev ticket
"I can't find anything that makes me think 'holy crap, this site is gorgeous.' I want luxurious imagery and design that naturally draws your eyes to the next thing — and creates emotion, especially excitement."
— Founder, TripValet Incentives · verbatim from onboarding
The approach

Three pillars. One launch.

We didn't just redesign — we re-architected the front door around the founder's actual brief. Built once, runnable forever.

i.

Editorial, image-forward, emotional

Full-bleed travel photography, deep navy + gold, serif headlines. The first scroll feels like opening a Condé Nast spread — not a SaaS landing page.

ii.

One front door, three journeys

A "Choose Your Journey" homepage routes Enterprise, Small Business, and Personal Explorer each to a dedicated, conversion-tuned page. No more confused homepage.

iii.

Editable without a developer

487 named fields wired into the WordPress Customizer with live preview. Every headline, image, and CTA editable in seconds — and brand tokens keep it all on-brand.

The signature shot

The "Choose Your Journey" homepage.

The hardest UX problem on the project: three very different customers, one front door. We solved it with three full-bleed cards, each leading to a tailored journey.

tripvalet.com
TripValet®CorporateIndividualExplorerBlogBook a Call
◆ Incentive marketing, redefined ◆
Real vacations. Real results.
Branded travel certificates that turn prospects into customers, customers into raving fans, and sales teams into top performers — without the timeshare gimmicks.
◆ Choose Your Journey ◆
01

Enterprise

20+ users. Custom pricing. ROI consultations with founders.

Corporate Advantage →
02

Small Business

1–20 users. Public pricing. 7-day free trial.

TVI Individual →
03

Personal Explorer

Up to 70% off hotels for you + 9 friends & family.

Explorer Membership →
A stylized recreation of the delivered homepage — TripValet's deep-navy + gold editorial direction.
What we built

Seven templates. One ecosystem.

Every page architected for its specific audience and conversion goal — and a back-end the marketing team can actually run.

The editable engine

A Customizer they can actually use.

Every headline, image, stat, testimonial, pricing tier, and CTA is wired into the WordPress Customizer with live preview — named and grouped to match the page. Content swaps in seconds, no dev tickets, no broken layouts.

89Home fields
80Corporate
166Individual
140Explorer
7 templates

Designed page-by-page

Home, Corporate, Individual, Explorer, Blog, Referral Partner + a shared header/footer system.

Integrations wired in

Connected, not bolted on

Calendly for ROI calls, Formspree for partner applications, Mailchimp + Mailgun for newsletters, Follow Up Boss CRM, and full GA4 / GSC / GTM analytics.

Unbreakable by design

Default-content fallback

Every template ships with its full designed HTML as a default. The moment the client edits a field, their content takes over — so the site launches gorgeous and stays that way.

Design highlights

Four pages worth a closer look.

Highlight 01

The Corporate qualifier filters tire-kickers.

Before they hit Calendly, prospects walk a checklist that pre-qualifies them — 20+ users, decision-maker, ready this quarter. The founder's calendar fills with serious conversations, not discovery calls.

↓60%
Tire-kicker calls
Highlight 02

The Explorer 9-card benefits grid.

Personal travel buyers want a fantasy preview, not a feature list. A nine-card grid showcases everything membership unlocks — hotels, concierge, resorts, entertainment — each with a custom icon and on-brand hover.

70%
Member savings
Highlight 03

The Referral Partner page is its own conversion engine.

A dramatic gradient form on dark, with vertical-specific qualifiers and a success-state animation. Partners are a different audience than customers — they need to feel selected, not solicited.

5
Vertical qualifiers
Highlight 04

Industry stats they now own.

Three of the strongest incentive-marketing proof points pulled into a full-bleed section above the fold — so every audience hits the signal early in the scroll.

300%
Revenue from repeat clients
Pre-launch validation

We tested the copy before we shipped it.

The top headlines and value props were validated through paid micro-tests on Meta. The copy that shipped was the copy that already worked.

Sales leaders
"Real vacations for your top reps. No timeshare gimmicks."
3.16%Click-through rate
$0.29Cost per click
Business owners
"Turn closing gifts into 3× referrals — without the awkward gift card."
3.10%Click-through rate
$0.20Cost per click

Both well above the SaaS B2B average (1.5–2.0% CTR / $0.50+ CPC).

Under the hood

Built to be edited, not babysat.

A custom child theme on Hello Elementor — Elementor Pro Theme Builder compatible, brand tokens as CSS variables, with a clean migration path to the client's own servers.

WordPress 6+Custom child themeHello Elementor baseElementor Pro compatiblePHP 7.4+DM Serif + DM SansCalendly + FormspreeMailchimp + MailgunGA4 · GSC · GTMBrand tokens as CSS vars

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