A Shipping Module Saved Million Dollars For A Wholesale Supplier

Tech Stack

CSS 3
HTML5
JavaScript
jQuery
Magento 2 Community
PHP 5

About Client

With 50+ years of product selling business, the client is a well-known supplier of the USA headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. It has a chain of more than 300 distribution and supply centers across the country. Now, the client has come on ecommerce to make it big with 14,000+ products including food products, party products, janitorial products etc. The key reason behind the success of client’s business is the best shipping policy that lures the customers most.

About Product

The client approached Brainvire to customize its shipping module which was giving a lot of issues and impacting revenues badly. Sometimes, shipping charges used to go above product cost which was not at all a good scenario for the business. Brainvire performed many checks on the website and applied following customizations in order to website function larger than live. - Integration with Stripe Payment System - One Step Checkout - Integration with Sphynx search functionality for dynamic loading and unloading of UDFs - Integration of UDropship by Unigry - Customized Shipping module with weight-based shipping calculation - Rectification of UPC code structure in the module - Uploaded 8,000+ products with creative contents

before

The Challenges

before-ring

Shipping Calculation base on the regions

The in-place module was not region based. The client wanted to exclude US region from the shipping. Plus client wanted the different shipping charges for different other regions. For some regions like Alaska, the client didn’t want the business to be in.

After studied the in-place module, Brainvire’s experienced developers crafted the region based logic with all the regions configured in the database. Plus, the admin is provided a utility where he/she can add, edit and delete the regions as per the shipping policies.

Solution

The Challenges

Integration with Stripe, Sphynx, and UDropship

The client required integration with Stripe for credit cart functioning. Furthermore, Sphynx search functionality was asked for auto fill feature. And, to make shipping process easier, UDropship was also required to be integrated.

The current Magento checkout process was not allowing one step checkout. So a newer system is implemented for one step check out. This was creating issues in Stripe integration. So the experienced developers introduced Cryozonic for seamless integration of Stripe. The developers removed previous searching mechanism and successfully integrated Sphynx. The SKUs based application UDropship was analyzed completely and with extensive testing on various platforms, finally, UDropship was integrated successfully without any error left behind.

Integration with Stripe, Sphynx, and UDropship

Shipping Calculation base on the regions

The in-place module was not region based. The client wanted to exclude US region from the shipping. Plus client wanted the different shipping charges for different other regions. For some regions like Alaska, the client didn’t want the business to be in.

After studied the in-place module, Brainvire’s experienced developers crafted the region based logic with all the regions configured in the database. Plus, the admin is provided a utility where he/she can add, edit and delete the regions as per the shipping policies.

Weight and Cost based Shipping Calculation

Some products with kind of SKU series, shipping costs are calculated based on the price of the product. If product price goes above a certain range, the shipping charges gets bigger. Same way for a weight based calculation, if product’s weight goes beyond a limit, charges gets increased.

Having worked in many Magento based shopping applications, Brainvire’s development team developed a configurable module and calculation logic for the exact shipping charges calculation. Admin is given the right to choose calculation preferences for product or product series. Plus, the minimum shipping charges, discount offers, coupons, etc. were also set as configurable along with the pricing calculation. For each preference either cost or weight, the accurate logic was identified and implemented in Magento.

Weight and Cost based Shipping Calculation

Challenge: Changing format of UPC codes from text to number everywhere in application

The client’s agency loaded the UPC codes in an incorrect format, so in reports, in product details, and in website pages, the larger numbers were being displayed in a wrong manner. Furthermore, a huge number of SKUs were incorrect and needed to be uploaded in order to make website error-free and user-friendly.

Brainvire’s team of excellent developers crafted a utility to upload excel file’s corrected product SKUs and other details to the server. For UPC code format, the developers changed the format to the number. In the entire website code, this format change was implemented and rigorous testing was performed to make it an error-free and corrected application.

Challenge: Changing format of UPC codes from text to number everywhere in application

Integration with Stripe, Sphynx, and UDropship

The client required integration with Stripe for credit cart functioning. Furthermore, Sphynx search functionality was asked for auto fill feature. And, to make shipping process easier, UDropship was also required to be integrated.

Shipping Calculation base on the regions

The in-place module was not region based. The client wanted to exclude US region from the shipping. Plus client wanted the different shipping charges for different other regions. For some regions like Alaska, the client didn’t want the business to be in.

Weight and Cost based Shipping Calculation

Some products with kind of SKU series, shipping costs are calculated based on the price of the product. If product price goes above a certain range, the shipping charges gets bigger. Same way for a weight based calculation, if product’s weight goes beyond a limit, charges gets increased.

Challenge: Changing format of UPC codes from text to number everywhere in application

The client’s agency loaded the UPC codes in an incorrect format, so in reports, in product details, and in website pages, the larger numbers were being displayed in a wrong manner. Furthermore, a huge number of SKUs were incorrect and needed to be uploaded in order to make website error-free and user-friendly.

Integration with Stripe, Sphynx, and UDropship

The client required integration with Stripe for credit cart functioning. Furthermore, Sphynx search functionality was asked for auto fill feature. And, to make shipping process easier, UDropship was also required to be integrated.

Result

Automated Shipping Module
No manual intervention required anymore for shipping calculations
Million dollars saved
Accurate shipping charges calculation helped saving lot of money
User-friendly Website
Dynamic Search functionality and corrected SKUs resulted in a smoother browsing experience.
Smoother Workflow
Automated shipping and 3rd party integrations resulted in a supreme ease in entire order management system

Product Screens

Client Testimonials

I would recommend Brainvire to anyone. They’re a very talented group of software engineers. They’ll tackle any challenges and take scope changes in stride. Along with their responsiveness, their team is communicative and dedicated.

Mike Luhtanen

Founder - Creative LLC

152 Reviews

“They handle all their work with a personal touch, which encourages a continued long-term partnership.Their deliverable are reliable thanks to vigorous QA testing. I would recommend Brainvire to anyone. ”

Mike Luhtanen

Founder, Creative LLC

5 months ago

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