How We Scaled RPO to a 69.5% Conversion Rate by Redesigning the Registration Flow

How We Scaled RPO to a 69.5% Conversion Rate by Redesigning the Registration Flow

RacketPro is JOOLA’s global platform for certifying pickleball coaches, where I redesigned the signup and purchase flow to make registrations clearer, faster, and easier to complete.

RacketPro is JOOLA’s global platform for certifying pickleball coaches, where I redesigned the signup and purchase flow to make registrations clearer, faster, and easier to complete.

How We Scaled RPO to a 69.5% Conversion Rate by Redesigning the Registration Flow

How We Scaled RPO to a 69.5% Conversion Rate by Redesigning the Registration Flow

This case study covers my end-to-end redesign of RacketPro’s coach journey, improving registrations and course completion.

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My Role

End-to-end Product Designer

Responsibilities
  • Design requirements elicitation and early-stage brainstorming

  • Technical feasibility analysis in collaboration with engineering team.

  • User flows, Information hierarchy and Wireframing.

  • High-fidelity designs, updating design systems, and prototyping.

Timeline

4 weeks (2 Sprints)

Team

Cross-functional team including a Senior Product Designer, Business Analyst, engineers, and stakeholders

Use of AI

I used AI tools like Stitch, Claude.ai, and Whimsical during early-stage exploration to structure ideas, visualise flows, and speed up brainstorming.

Disclaimer: AI was used to assist early exploration, not to replace design decision-making.

Project Overview

The core business problem was simple to state but hard to solve: coaches wanted to get certified, but many never finished the journey.

Registrations were dropping, workshops were missed, and support tickets kept piling up. The experience broke down the moment coaches tried to navigate it.

Business goals

Empower new coaches to succeed early through a clear, guided, and confidence-building onboarding journey.

For RacketPro, this wasn’t just about fixing the UI. It was about protecting their most valuable funnel: Level 1 certification, which accounts for ~95% of all signups.

Every unclear decision, hidden dependency, or missed step directly affected revenue, retention, and support cost.

User challenge

Coaches didn’t understand what to buy, why they needed it, or what came next.

Memberships, courses, workshops, and equivalency all existed, but the product treated them as separate items instead of a connected journey.

This created three critical problems:

  • New coaches felt surprised by mandatory membership requirements

  • Returning coaches couldn’t tell what they already owned or needed next

  • Equivalency applicants were left waiting with zero feedback or reassurance

For many older, non-tech-savvy coaches, this uncertainty was enough to abandon the process entirely.

The key design shift

From selling products → to guiding a certification journey

Instead of asking users to make sense of complex options, we redesigned the experience around one clear path forward at any given moment.

This meant:

  • Making the primary bundle the default entry point instead of scattered choices

  • Surfacing ownership, renewal status, and next steps clearly for logged-in coaches

  • Turning checkout from a dead end into a moment of reassurance and momentum


Every decision was tied back to one question:

“What does this coach need to feel confident enough to continue?”

Instead of asking users to make sense of complex options, we redesigned the experience around one clear path forward at any given moment.

This meant:

  • Making the primary bundle the default entry point instead of scattered choices

  • Surfacing ownership, renewal status, and next steps clearly for logged-in coaches

  • Turning checkout from a dead end into a moment of reassurance and momentum


Every decision was tied back to one question:

“What does this coach need to feel confident enough to continue?”

Impact

Signup drop-offs reduced from

Signup drop-offs reduced from

64.3%

64.3%
64.3%

36.2%

36.2%
36.2%

Time to complete registration dropped

Time to complete registration dropped

Time to complete registration dropped

> 50%

> 50%
> 50%

Platform traffic within two weeks of launch

Platform traffic within two weeks of launch

Platform traffic within two weeks of launch

2x

2x
2x

Workshop bookings moved fully in-platform

Workshop bookings moved fully in-platform

Support tickets for manual bookings dropped to zero

Support tickets for manual bookings dropped to zero

These results came from design, supported by campaigns and pricing strategies, not from UI polish alone.

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