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Baby Products
Project Manager, Web Designer, Certified Magento Developer
> 5K Monthly Visits
Magento development, Magento SEO/SEM Outgoing Support and Maintenance, Magento Design Magento Migration
TravelingBaby is a US company that rents various baby equipment for travelling families. The company owns no equipment but operates as a marketplace where customers rent tools from carefully inspected and selected vendors around the country.
The specificity of the target audience imposes certain restrictions on the delivery and return processes; Some customers want to rent the equipment right in the airport, some ask for delivery to the hotel, and others prefer the pick-up, so this had to be handled in the system.
The main obstacle we had to overcome was that Magento 1 is unsuitable for the rental business model; therefore, the entire interface had to be recreated from scratch and built customarily on top of the Magento framework.
Moreover, vendors from different parts of the country had to be integrated, linked, and ed to each vendor’s location and admin pane —this required heavy customisation of the Magento backend system.
The client had a legacy rental system written in ASP.NET. As Travellingbaby planned to expand the functional capabilities of vendors, a brand new website had to be created, and it needed to be automated completely.
Our first step was to record a technical video audit of the website. We usually do this for every prospect to at least give some value to our conversation. The review covers all current website issues, reveals the areas for improvement, and shares our suggestions according to the client’s goal. The client was impressed by our approach, transparency, honesty, client testimonials and Magento skills of our team.
Rafi Zait
OWNER, TRAVELINGBABY
The client’s development team had already done some groundwork in Magento; however, the team couldn’t handle the level of customisation needed by the client. After a detailed code review, we suggested creating the development part from scratch.
We created a Trello board for the project and distributed the tasks month by month, evaluating them in hours, and determining the priority and tasks order together with the client. (We usually use this approach with our clients for fast communication and transparency.)
Client’s goal was to launch a fully automated rental booking software through Magento that specifically catered to the baby equipment rental industry and all the logistical factors that the industry comes with.
The vendors get authorised access to the admin panel to manage all their specific products and delivery settings; everything is synchronised with the main storefront. All orders and financial information is also manageable within these sections.
We built the system so that the client can easily scale the network of vendors to run mass affiliate programs.
To achieve the client’s requirements, we had to rebuild the admin panel to provide the customer with the ability to integrate vendors from different parts of the country.
The rental options are super convenient for end-users, allowing them to set pick-up and drop-off locations separately (choose the airport or hotel; or any other location on the map). These options are different for each vendor; vendors set the available options themselves in the admin panel.
In the checkout, the system calculates the price instantly according to the chosen delivery configuration. And users can also leave a comment for the delivery service.
The platform saves delivery and payment configuration for registered users to make their next purchase more convenient.
Rafi Zait
OWNER, TRAVELINGBABY
Currently, TravellingBaby operates in 10 states of the USA, Hawaii and Puerto Rico, working with 35+ suppliers across the country. And the company’s current turnovers allow the owner to discuss new scaling strategies with us.
