Barcodes

Solution

The existing trading platform offers a wide range of products in different areas. The system is designed to showcase label printing equipment, barcode scanning, and mobile computing solutions for manufacturing, retail, healthcare, government, education and libraries, logistics, hospitality, and utility industries. The platform presents narrowly specialized products for the specific needs of the companies (for example, barcode printers, barcode scanners, point of sale, ID cards, mobile computing, RFID, Auto-ID, and CCTV video security products).

The project itself is a large-scale Magento e-commerce project with a high level of complexity. The shopping platform has extensive customization requirements that involve creation of the custom modules & themes to meet specific business needs. Besides, the e-commerce store has diverse product catalogs, which raises the need for the management of large datasets with different categories and attributes. This, in turn, creates the need to achieve optimal performance for the service. Extensive product catalogs affect page load speed, SEO, and user experience. Handling performance optimization challenges contributes to retaining shop visitors as well as improving ranking in the searches. There is also a need for effective DB queries, and a selection of caching strategies to achieve optimal Magento shop page loading times.

Another key point to be taken into account is the Magento e-commerce project scalability. With the business growth, the shopping platform is gradually expanding and there is an increase in traffic, data, and transactions. The Magento store with a scalable architecture can quickly expand, process large amounts of data with optimal performance, and handle peak loads.

The store deals with sensitive customer information and financial transactions. For this reason, another top priority of the e-commerce platform is security and compliance with legal and industry regulations.

Large-scale Magento e-commerce project also takes into account the development and support of easily understandable and intuitive UI. The clearer, simpler, and more intuitive the site navigation, product search, and overall shopping experience, the greater the probability that the site visitor will make an order.

To sum up, from the technical point of view, the development team worked on the following tasks:

• Magento consulting
• Development of front-end and back-end functionality
• Modules, extensions, and themes installation, configuration, and customization
• Magento integrations
• Magento performance optimization for big catalogs
• Website speed enhancements
• Design and optimization of the database schema
• Versions control and deployment
• Ongoing Magento maintenance and support

Business Impact

The hired Magento developers work on the project as a part of a multinational team, distributed across different locations worldwide. Tasks are distributed by project managers from the customer’s side among developers through Zoho. Involvement of additional developers in the project helps the customer to cover the following challenges:

• Stable functioning of the store and its constant updating
• Faster new product features delivery times
• Faster problem solving
• Risk mitigation
• Efficient resource allocation
• Expertise and experience. The external developers, who started working on the project, have extensive experience in Magento development. The experience working on other similar projects is a big plus. Such software engineers know best practices, industry standards, and efficient ways of solving different challenges. Thanks to the involvement of additional resources with relevant experience and expertise, it is possible to optimize processes in general, since specialists know the best approaches to tasks, know how processes work, and deliver results within the given timelines