Opportunity
The client wanted an online store with an extremely rich and customized UI. It would be targeted towards parents of kids up to six years old who are looking for children’s clothes following the latest fashion trends, straight out of LA. The online store had to make the products on the site irresistible to the parents/shoppers and make shopping a user friendly experience.
Challenges
- PrestaShop Open Source E-Commerce Shopping Cart integration
- Custom PrestaShop shopping cart theme design and integration for front and back-end, appealing enough to attract extremely choosy parents who want to dress up their kids in the latest fashions
- Developing a multilingual UI (English and Deutsch) where the design doesn’t lose its consistency and richness for either language; content is integrated for each language
- Custom Mega Menu design and integration
- Developing a floating/filter search panel
- Implementing a customized image zoom plugin for the product detail page
- Integrating a customized WordPress blog with custom theme design that is aligned with the design of the main website
- Custom built reward points management system wherein reward points are awarded to existing users when they invite new users, and they also get reward points for every new purchase.
- Enabling the redemption of reward points on purchase of any product/s to be used for viewing view special products and providing access to events (invitations by admin only)
- Saferpay payment gateway integration
- Customizing Gift Wrapping Module
- Integrating requirements specific PrestaShop modules to integrate certain features and functionalities
- Facebook and Plaxo API integration
- Custom event management module development
Execution
The seamless design and development execution of this open source ecommerce shopping cart is a result of PLAVEB’s extraordinary grasp, both theoretical and practical, of the PrestaShop e-commerce shopping cart software. With our in-depth awareness of the design theme, plugins, add-ons and features available for this open source platform, we ensured that the shopping cart is cutting edge in all respects and offers an extremely satisfying shopping experience to its users.
Results
Our designers and developers understand the value of visual appeal, usability, and functionality, ensuring that the client’s concept was brought to life from the smallest of details and the resulting website offers users a high-end shopping experience. The shopping cart is optimized to attract and convert for better profitability.
Technical Details
This ecommerce shopping cart was developed using Open Source E-Commerce Shopping Cart Software called PrestaShop 1.4.3 and LAMP technology (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP). We also utilized HTML, CSS, jQuery, JavaScript, Ajax, Saferpay payment gateway integration, Facebook and Plaxo API integration to ensure that the project met with all of the client’s specifications.