Marketplace on Magento, or how we expanded our client’s business

What was our task?

Our client, who deals with telecommunications on a daily basis, came to us with the desire to create a marketplace. The project turned out to be the largest implementation in the Fast White Cat portfolio. Challenge? This is an absolutely new branch of business for a client who set new business goals and wanted to expand his business.

How did we approach this task?

  1. To create a marketplace, we wanted to use what we know best, Magento. In this case we used Magento Commerce.
  2. The biggest challenge for us in this project was the efficient connection of Magento with Mirakle. This task involved the need to understand the operation and structure of data in the Mirakl system and their impact on Magento 2.
  3. We worked in a nine-person team, including: Project Manager, Tech Lead, and seven full-time developers.

Magento, so it will work

The implementation of our microservice has optimized many processes necessary for the proper functioning of e-commerce – we managed to centralize the part of the client’s business that is responsible for returns, complaints and the work of couriers, and the software we designed can also be used for other e-shops of our client and to speed up any other integrations, which will have a positive impact on the client’s budget.

We have increased the efficiency of our client’s entire business ecosystem – now it is open to growth and there will be no problem with scaling it.

  • Scalable projects run in Docker technology
  • Bitbucket/gitlab version control
  • CI/DI Jenkins and Ansible
  • Dedicated PhpStorm software with code quality control

We have added and created many plugins to the project to extend the functionality of Magento, including:

  • Smile ElasticSuite optimizing the operation of the product catalog and filtration along with the search engine
  • Mageworx Seo Ultimate is a tool that improves SEO optimization in your project
  • SSO module connecting the login mechanism in Magento with the client’s SSO.
  • MangoPay payment module
  • GDPR module and anonymization of user data

Kamil Gromek

 Tech Leader projektu

The Piazz.com project was one of the largest projects I had the pleasure of running.

This project was an ambitious one, with many dependent systems such as Mirakl, SSO and MangoPay payment. Thanks to the hard work of all people involved, we managed to efficiently perform all the tasks and functionalities assigned to us by the client, even though many of them differed significantly from standard Magento functionalities and required a lot of work.

The project itself is very interesting because it illustrates how the standard Magento functionalities, i.e. product sales, can be extended with Marketplace mechanisms, where there is one product and many offers for the product.

The piazz.com project was quite a technological challenge for Fast White Cat

but the large number of dedicated solutions that we have introduced have enabled us to expand our portfolio – starting from expanding the customer panel, ending with the first Mirakl integration. The FWC team enabled the client to enter the market with a new marketplace. We look forward to continuing to help the client achieve further success!

Andrzej Muzaj

Project Manager

How it works, i.e. the effect

The largest marketplace on Magento has been created. Piazz operates and sells, and our client from the telecommunications industry has just entered new business segments. A new case in the Fast White Cat portfolio and the use of Magento in a non-obvious way.

  1. The marketplace that we opened for Slovenia acquired 35,000 offers, available in 50 categories.
  2. Piazz offers the opportunity to compare offers of the same product from several sellers, which is a great advantage for customers.
  3. Using and navigating the Piazz marketplace is a piece of cake! Each user of our client from the telecommunications industry logs in via their own login on the website, they do not need to create an additional account. The Piazz search engine has the seeds of artificial intelligence – it simply knows the customer. Thanks to the fact that we have implemented it, the purchase of an item and payment take place within one platform. Everything at the checkout stage.

Development?

At Fast White Cat, we work to ensure that our Partners’ stores not only constantly improve their capabilities, but also stay ahead of the competition. Check how we will cope with your challenge!

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