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Sun & Ski

Founded in 1980 in Houston, Sun & Ski Sports has grown into a national multi-sport retailer spanning ski, snowboard, bike, water sports, running, and pickleball. With 30+ stores across the country and a “Find Yourself Outside” ethos, the brand pairs expert, in-store guidance with a full-scale online catalog, rentals, and lifetime service programs.

Apps
  • Website
  • Ecommerce
  • Blog
Industry
  • Sport & Fitness
Type of project
  • Custom
Hours Spent

1,000 hours

Our mission


Sun & Ski Sports needed an online experience that could carry the weight of a national, multi-location retailer while still feeling like a local shop. With over 30 physical locations, a rental and lease business, in-store services, and a catalog spanning a dozen sport categories, the challenge was twofold: design a website that reflects the brand's energy and makes a vast catalog easy to explore, and unify an entire retail operation on Odoo behind it.

At the heart of the project was a close partnership between our Buffalo and Belgian offices. Working side by side across the Atlantic, the two teams shaped the project together, from the first design concepts and user journeys to the technical architecture, before the Buffalo team led the platform through to launch. Development teams in India, Mexico and Hong Kong contributed key parts of the platform, turning the project into a truly global effort with work moving forward around the clock.

The result is a fully custom Odoo website where design and functionality go hand in hand. A clean, modern interface gives every store its own identity within a single, coherent shopping experience, and it works just as smoothly on mobile as on desktop. Browsing, buy-online-pickup-in-store, rentals and service bookings all live side by side. Behind the scenes, deep product cataloging, sport-specific attributes and personalized in-store logic were built from the ground up to match the complexity of the inventory.

Today, customers can shop, compare, pick up or ship their gear seamlessly, whichever fits their trip to the mountain, the trail or the water.

Odoo website: Sun & Ski mockup shop page

Odoo website: Sun & Ski mockup product page

01

Smart Product Pages

Each product page combines a detailed variant selector for size, color, and gender with an AI-powered assistant that answers shopper questions on the spot, comparisons, terrain fit, sizing, right alongside curated “You May Also Like” suggestions. Together, they shorten the path from browsing to a confident purchase, especially for technical gear where fit and specs matter most.

Odoo website: Sun & Ski mockup store locator

Odoo website: Sun & Ski mockup store page

02

Custom Store Locator & “My Local Store”

A fully custom store locator lets visitors search by location or use geolocation to find their nearest of 30+ stores, complete with real-time hours and directions. Once selected, that store is remembered site-wide as “My Local Store,” so pickup availability, services, and local promotions stay personalized on every page the customer visits.

03

Ski, Snowboard & Bike Service Shops

Dedicated pages for the Ski, Snowboard, and Bike service shops connect each purchase to ongoing, in-store care, from tuning and mounting to custom boot fitting and repairs. Tied to the Lifetime Services program, this turns a one-time sale into a standing relationship, giving customers free or discounted upkeep for as long as they own their gear.

04

Per-Item Shipping & Pickup Checkout

The checkout lets customers choose shipping or in-store pickup independently for each item in the cart, with live delivery windows and store-specific pickup timing shown line by line. Combined with Affirm financing and a running order summary, it turns a multi-item, multi-fulfillment order into a single, transparent checkout instead of separate transactions.

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