Hurler Athletic is a Corvallis, Oregon–based manufacturer of custom protective shoe guards for athletes, founded in 1991. Their ProtecToe® pitching toe guard is specified by the top five athletic shoe brands — Nike, Adidas, Mizuno, Under Armour, and New Balance — for use by Major League and Minor League Baseball pitchers, and is worn by hundreds of MLB players. Each guard is custom-applied to the customer’s own cleats based on the wear pattern they specify, with coverage options ranging from extended hot spots to full front caps. Beyond baseball and softball, Hurler’s guards also serve football and soccer cleats, work boots, skating footwear, and first responders’ boots — anywhere demanding use causes accelerated wear on the toe area of footwear.
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We designed and built Hurler Athletic a fully custom WooCommerce e-commerce store to support their unique made-to-order workflow. Unlike typical e-commerce sites where customers buy stock products, Hurler’s customers ship their own cleats to the company for custom application of the ProtecToe® guard — so the site needed to handle a non-standard order flow: capturing coverage type selection (six different coverage options, each with its own application pattern), color matching preferences, special wear-pattern instructions, quantity-based discounting, and detailed shipping coordination. We built a tailored order form with conditional logic that walks customers through each decision point, integrated automatic quantity-based discount calculation so customers see their final cost before committing, and connected the storefront to Hurler’s back-office workflow for order processing. The site itself communicates Hurler’s authority in the niche — MLB partnerships, the five major shoe brands that specify the product, the broader range of sports and professions served — while keeping the path to a custom order as frictionless as possible.
We host hurlerathletic.com on managed WooCommerce infrastructure tuned for the demands of an active e-commerce operation. The plan includes caching for fast page loads, daily backups, security hardening (firewalls, malware scanning, timely WordPress and plugin updates), 24/7 monitoring, and direct support from our team. When something needs immediate attention — a checkout issue during a busy stretch, an order workflow question — the Hurler team contacts us directly and gets a real person, not a tier-one support gauntlet.

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