HTFT Partnership

Ecommerce and Course Website for an Online Accountancy Training Provider

Accountancy training website design for HTFT Partnership shown on desktop and mobile
Project Summary

HTFT Partnership is a fully online accountancy training provider, delivering AAT, ACCA, CIMA and ICAEW qualifications alongside apprenticeships from Level 2 through to Level 7. Founded in 2013 on the belief that accountancy education should work around the learner, they teach through a flipped classroom model, with pre-recorded content before class and live, tutor-led masterclasses in it. Their accountancy training website design had to carry all of that, and serve students, employers and apprentices at the same time.

The site they had could not. It was built on Concrete5, it had aged badly, and even small changes to course dates or prices meant waiting on someone else. Worse, it ranked for almost nothing commercially useful, so the courses were only ever found by people who already knew the name. HTFT also had bigger plans that the old platform simply could not support, selling courses online, delivering the learning through the site itself, and giving students somewhere to talk to their tutors and to each other.

We rebuilt the whole thing in WordPress and Elementor, with a course architecture that gives every qualification, level and paper a page of its own. An online shop turned browsing into buying, LearnDash brought the learning on site, and a community forum gave students a place to ask the awkward question at nine at night. Dates and prices, mocks, insights and testimonials now sit exactly where someone decides whether to enrol. View HTFT Partnership

Why This Accountancy Training Website Design Mattered

A flipped classroom asks more of a website than a brochure site ever has to give. Students need to buy, learn, practise and ask for help in the same place, and employers need to see something entirely different on the way to the same decision. Most training providers hand their courses to a third party platform and lose the relationship, and the margin, in the process. HTFT wanted to own theirs, so nothing about the rebuild was cosmetic, and every decision came back to whether it helped someone enrol, or helped the team run the business without waiting on an agency.

Course listing page from the HTFT accountancy training website, showing AAT, ACCA, CIMA and ICAEW qualifications
Online course shop and student login on the HTFT training website, built for buying and learning in one place
How we helped

Course Website Design and Build

  • Full rebuild from Concrete5 into WordPress and Elementor, with a structure the HTFT team can edit themselves
  • Course architecture across four qualification bodies, with individual pages for each level and paper
  • An integrated shop selling courses online, with student login connecting through to the ROGO assessment platform
  • LearnDash course delivery and a community forum, so students and tutors stay connected between masterclasses
  • Employer and apprenticeship routes running alongside the student journey, without crowding it

SEO, Content and Ongoing Support

  • Technical SEO foundations laid during the rebuild, so each qualification page could rank on its own terms rather than competing with one parent page
  • Ongoing SEO and content work aimed at the questions students ask before they commit to a qualification
  • Accreditation signals, ACCA Platinum, AAT Approved, CIMA Registered and ICAEW Partner in Learning, placed where prospective students actually make the decision
  • Managed WordPress hosting that holds up through enrolment peaks and exam season
  • Website support and care, so syllabus changes, new dates and new prices go live quickly
Results

A website that now sells, teaches and gets found, rather than just describing what HTFT do.

  • Online course sales grew from nothing to over £6,000 a month
  • Google rankings improved by 88 per cent across core search terms
  • Monthly visits from those core terms rose from around 150 to more than 600
  • Every qualification level now earns its own rankings, instead of competing with a single parent page
  • Three audiences, students, employers and apprentices, served by one site without the navigation buckling under the weight

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