Case Study: ManoMano (DIY marketplace) achieves a 20% conversion increase with Algolia

ManoMano increased their conversion rate by 20% in multiple markets after switching to Algolia

ManoMano is a Paris-based e‑commerce marketplace for DIY, gardening, and home improvement with 1,200 merchants and 18 million monthly visitors. Their Search team needed to help non‑expert shoppers find the right products despite varied vocabulary, but their previous Elastic Search setup was hard to tune, required heavy developer effort, and suffered from indexing bugs and poor relevance.

ManoMano replaced Elastic Search with Algolia to enable faster iteration, easier ranking adjustments without developer involvement, and quicker fixes (an internal data issue was resolved in 50 minutes instead of days). After testing Algolia in Italy, Spain, Germany, and the UK, conversion rates rose by up to 20% within two weeks.

ManoMano

Chloé Martinot

Product Manager