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From a 20-Year-Old System to an AI-Assisted Underwriting Portal

We rebuilt Sentinel Underwriting's entire property-inspection workflow — from order intake to delivered report and invoice — on a modern platform, migrating 400k+ historical inspections and layering in automated valuations, AI-assisted quality review, and role-based portals for every stakeholder.

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Overview of Traya Health

Traya Health is India's most trusted, science-backed hair loss treatment brand — the first to combine three disciplines, Dermatology, Ayurveda, and Nutrition, into a single, root-cause treatment plan. Rather than selling one-off products, Traya diagnoses why a customer is losing hair, builds a personalized kit around that diagnosis, and pairs every customer with a dedicated Hair Coach for the length of their treatment.

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Transforming Hair Care Digitally

That model has earned Traya a 93% success rate in its internal study, a 4.5-star Google rating, the trust of 70+ doctors, and more than 2 lakh Hair Tests taken on its platform. Our job was to give that ambitious, non-standard health journey a digital home that could carry it, end to end, on Shopify.

The Challenge

Making Shopify Behave Like a Personalized Health Platform

Most eCommerce sites exist to help people browse, add to cart, and check out. Traya's model breaks that pattern completely. A customer doesn't arrive knowing what to buy — they take a multi-step Hair Test, receive a root-cause diagnosis across six factors, and only then get matched to a treatment kit designed for their specific condition. The purchase is the last step of a diagnostic journey, not the first click.
Shopify, out of the box, isn't built for that. It's built for standard catalogs and linear checkout. Traya needed a platform that could capture health data, interpret it, recommend dynamically, sell subscriptions that run for months, protect sensitive information, and earn trust at every scroll — all while staying fast for an audience that shops almost entirely on mobile. The brief wasn't “build a store.” It was “build a personalized treatment engine that happens to run on Shopify.”

The answer was a custom platform built around the learning product itself, with one backend behind every screen.

  • Industry

    Health & Wellness
    eCommerce
  • Platform

    Shopify
  • Services

    Custom Shopify Development
    UI/UX Design
    Subscription Engineering
    Performance & Security
  • Business Type

    D2C Enterprise
outcomes

Outcomes That Define the Build

20+

SKUs unified into one catalog with a single subscription and recurring-order system

3–6 mo

Treatment-plan subscriptions engineered for the full hair-growth journey

6

Root-cause factors mapped inside a custom diagnostic funnel that recommends a personalized kit

2–3 Wks

From design to a live, secured, performance-tuned Shopify storefront

Process

Our Process

  1. 01 Discovery
  2. 02 Design
  3. 03 Development
  4. 04 Testing
  5. 05 Launch & Support

01 Discovery

  • Requirement gathering with Traya's product and clinical teams
  • Mapping the six-factor diagnostic logic to a purchase flow
  • Defining data, trust, and security requirements up front
Workflow Mapping
Legacy Data Audit
Requirements Definition

02 Design

  • User journey mapping from Hair Test to checkout
  • Mobile-first UI/UX for a diagnosis-led experience
  • Trust-signal placement designed into every key screen
Workflow Mapping
Legacy Data Audit
Requirements Definition

03 Development

  • Custom Shopify theme engineered around the treatment model
  • Diagnostic funnel and dynamic kit-recommendation logic
  • Subscription, booking, and catalog systems built in parallel
Workflow Mapping
Legacy Data Audit
Requirements Definition

04 Testing

  • Cross-browser and cross-device validation for a mobile-first audience
  • Funnel, checkout, and subscription flow QA
  • Security and encryption verification on health-data inputs
Workflow Mapping
Legacy Data Audit
Requirements Definition

05 Launch & Support

  • Phased rollout with Cloudflare CDN configuration
  • Performance monitoring and load stabilization
  • Post-launch optimization for conversion and speed
Workflow Mapping
Legacy Data Audit
Requirements Definition
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Project challenge

The Weight of Two Decades of Data

Traya's platform demanded solutions to problems a typical Shopify store never encounters. Four stood out as make-or-break.

Personalizing a Platform Built for Browsing

Shopify assumes customers know what they want. Traya's customers don't — and shouldn't. We had to build a diagnostic funnel on top of Shopify that captures health inputs across six root causes (nutrition, gut health, dandruff, stress, genetics, and metabolism), maps them to a diagnosis, and dynamically assembles a personalized kit. That is deep custom development layered onto a platform that wasn't designed to think this way.

Building Trust at Every Decision Point

In health and wellness, trust is the conversion. A single testimonials page wasn't going to be enough. Clinical validation, before/after transformations across Stages 1–7, ingredient science, named customer stories, and a money-back guarantee all had to be woven naturally through the funnel — reinforcing confidence exactly where hesitation happens, not tucked away on one page nobody visits.

Protecting Sensitive Health Data

The Hair Test collects personal health information from hundreds of thousands of users. That raised the security bar well above standard retail. The platform needed client-side encryption for health inputs, DDoS protection, and SSL — implemented without adding friction or slowing the experience down.

Staying Fast on Every Device in India

Traya's audience is overwhelmingly mobile, spread across an enormous range of devices, browsers, and network conditions. A rich, media-heavy, trust-led funnel can easily become slow and inconsistent. Delivering fast load times and identical behavior across that fragmented landscape was a non-negotiable, not a nice-to-have.

Execution Strategy

A Treatment Engine, Not a Storefront

The goal was never to redesign a shop — it was to compress the distance between a customer's problem and Traya's solution, turning a clinical, multi-step treatment model into a digital experience that feels effortless. We delivered this across three connected workstreams.

  • Integrated the Hair Test as a custom diagnostic funnel that captures data across six root causes and recommends a kit dynamically.
  • Built a "My Recommended Plan" CTA that carries customers straight from their diagnosis result into Shopify checkout — collapsing the gap between test and purchase into a single click.
  • Embedded clinical proof — a 93% success rate (300 participants, 5+ months), a Stage 1–7 hair-loss selector for men and women, and a month-by-month results timeline for honest expectation-setting.
  • Built dedicated ingredient-science pages detailing the mechanism of action for Bhringraj, Ashwagandha, Biotin, Shatavari, Amla, and Niacinamide.
  • Enabled subscription and recurring-order management for 3–6 month treatment plans.
  • Configured Cloudflare for CDN, DDoS protection, and SSL; crypto-js for client-side health-data encryption; and core-js 3.37.0 for consistent behavior across devices.

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Tech Stack

Why We Built It This Way

Traya didn’t need the flashiest technology stack—it needed the right one. Shopify provided a proven, secure commerce foundation and helped accelerate time-to-market, allowing the team to focus on the more complex parts of the customer journey: the diagnostic funnel, subscription logic, and trust layer. Each technology was selected for a specific role in creating a fast, secure, and reliable treatment experience.

01

Shopify

Commerce platform and custom theme foundation

02

crypto-js

Client-side encryption for sensitive health-test data

03

Cloudflare

Global CDN, DDoS protection, and SSL

04

core-js 3.37.0

Cross-browser consistency for a mobile-first audience

05

jQuery

Lightweight interactivity across the diagnostic funnel

Visual Proof

The Screens We Built

The screens below are live on traya.health today. Replace each frame with a screenshot of the corresponding section to turn this into visual proof of the work.

The Result

A Personalized Health Journey, Delivered on Shopify

This wasn't a store redesign — it was the digitization of an entire treatment model. What began as a challenge (“Shopify can't do this”) became a platform that guides a customer from a six-factor Hair Test, to a personalized kit, to a subscription that supports months of care, to a Hair Coach who is one tap away throughout. Trust isn't bolted on; it's built into every screen. Security isn't an afterthought; it protects health data before it ever leaves the browser.
The breakthrough was collapsing the distance between diagnosis and purchase. Instead of asking customers to shop, we let them get diagnosed — and made buying the right treatment the easiest next step.

AreaStandard Shopify ApproachTraya Custom BuildBusiness Impact
Product DiscoveryGeneric browse and searchGuided Hair Test across 6 root causesCustomers matched to the right kit instead of guessing
Path To PurchaseManual navigation to cart“My Recommended Plan” — diagnosis to checkout in one clickShortest possible route from intent to order
Trust SignalsIsolated testimonials pageClinical data, before/after and reviews at every stepConfidence reinforced where hesitation happens
Treatment ContinuityOne-time purchaseSubscriptions for 3–6 month plansSupports the full journey, not a single sale
Data SecurityStandard handlingClient-side crypto-js encryptionHealth data protected before transmission
PerformanceVariable across devicesCloudflare CDN + core-jsFast, consistent experience on any device
Expert AccessNoneHair Coach booking on every pageHuman guidance kept one tap away
THE TRANSFORMATION

Business Impact

The platform changed what Traya's storefront is capable of — from a catalog a visitor has to navigate, to a guided journey that diagnoses, recommends, and retains. The before-and-after above captures each shift: discovery replaced by diagnosis, a manual path to cart replaced by one-click plan-to-checkout, scattered proof replaced by trust at every step, and one-time sales replaced by treatment-length subscriptions.
Together, these turned a standard commerce flow into a model that mirrors how Traya actually treats hair loss — the digital equivalent of a diagnosis, a personalized prescription, and a coach who stays with the customer throughout.

WHAT SETS US APART

Why Auspicious Soft

01

Custom Shopify beyond the template

We build the diagnostic funnels, quizzes, and recommendation flows that standard Shopify can't do out of the box — the exact challenge at the heart of this project.

02

Health & wellness eCommerce experience

Sensitive-data journeys, subscriptions, and trust-led conversion are familiar ground, not new territory.

03

Security and speed built in

Client-side encryption, Cloudflare, and cross-device performance come as standard, not as an upsell.

04

Fast, accountable delivery.

A focused, senior team that ships a full design-to-launch cycle in weeks, not months.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why did Traya need a custom Shopify build instead of a standard store?

Traya's business model is diagnosis-led: customers take a six-factor Hair Test and are matched to a personalized kit before buying. Standard Shopify is built for browsing and linear checkout, so we engineered a custom diagnostic funnel, dynamic kit-recommendation logic, and a “My Recommended Plan” flow on top of Shopify to support that treatment-first journey.

How was sensitive health data kept secure?

The Hair Test collects personal health inputs, so we implemented client-side encryption using crypto-js — data is encrypted in the browser before it is transmitted. Cloudflare adds DDoS protection and SSL on top, keeping the platform secure without slowing the experience for users.

How does Traya's subscription model work on Shopify?

Hair treatment runs over months, not a single order. We built subscription and recurring-order management for 3–6 month treatment plans, so customers stay on their regimen automatically and Traya can support the full treatment cycle rather than a one-time purchase.

How was the Hair Test connected to checkout?

We integrated the Hair Test as a custom funnel that captures six root-cause factors and dynamically recommends a kit. The diagnosis result links directly into Shopify checkout via a “My Recommended Plan” CTA — turning test completion into purchase in a single click.

How do you build trust into a health eCommerce funnel?

Instead of relegating proof to one testimonials page, we embedded clinical data, before/after transformations across Stages 1–7, a month-by-month results timeline, Google reviews, named success stories, ingredient-science pages, and a money-back guarantee throughout the funnel — reinforcing confidence at each decision point.

What was the tech stack and timeline?

The platform runs on Shopify, with crypto-js for encryption, Cloudflare for CDN and security, core-js 3.37.0 for cross-browser consistency, and jQuery for lightweight interactivity. A focused team of 4–5 specialists delivered the full design-to-launch cycle in 2–3 weeks.

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