Dedicated developers - Cart-Power https://cart-power.com CS-Cart custom development for marketplaces and online-stores Thu, 18 Apr 2024 12:22:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://cart-power.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/cropped-favicon-150x150.png Dedicated developers - Cart-Power https://cart-power.com 32 32 Santechlux – Online Store of Sanitary Ware and Bathroom Accessories https://cart-power.com/portfolio/santechlux/ Mon, 19 Sep 2022 08:05:03 +0000 https://site.cartpower.tech/?post_type=portfolio&p=21103 Speed and performance optimization with instant download of search result.
Improove consumers usability. Opportunity for additional promotion and sales.

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A online store of sanitary ware and bathroom accessories

Santechlux is a plumbing online store with an assortment of 200,000 products of various equipment and accessories for the bathroom. The company has been operating on the market for over 20 years and is the official dealer of well-known brands of sanitary ware and tiles.

Field: sale of sanitary ware and accessories   Country: Russia  
Website: Santechlux

Main goals

The owner had a ready-made store, developed for an individual request. The range of products is very large, with many features and options. In addition, the site has implemented a lot of custom improvements and solutions. As a result, the pages have been loaded very slowly.

  1. Fix bugs and increase the speed of the online store.
  2. Platform update.
  3. Improve usability for customers.
  4. Create integrations with external services in order to increase conversions.

Our work process

Website audit and error correction

In order to speed up the site, we conducted a speed and performance audit, formulated a technical task and corrected errors.

Main tasks for speed optimization included:

  • Working with add-ons and templates – we refactored the code and brought it to a single standard. As a result, the code has become simpler and more readable for machines, and therefore faster.
  • Installing the SEO for Filters add-on, tweaking according to current links and creating 301 redirects from the old links.
  • We switched to the MySQLi extension in order to improve the work with the database.

Additional solutions to increase the speed of the site:

  • Setting up a block cache. Now, when reloading any page, it loads 1.5-2 times faster.
  • We added lazy loading for blocks, images and heavy content. If it is located outside the visible area of ​​the screen or it does not need to be shown to the client immediately. Images on the page are not loaded all at once, but as the user scrolls to the required page area. This helped improve performance and use site resources sparingly.
  • We optimized search performance on the site. The longer the search results take to load, the more likely it is that the visitor will leave the page without waiting for the search results.
    Each search query on the Santechlux website includes many characteristics. As you can see in the image below, there are more than 900 products in the search results for “shower cabin”. Previously, this request was loaded for about 2 minutes, after code optimization, the request was loaded in less than a second.

Website platform and theme update

While updating the client’s site we encountered layout display errors. We have updated the theme based on the standard Responsive theme, leaving unique templates. It does not affect the platform core files. As a result, updates are easy and painless to apply and it is possible, if necessary, to refine the design.

Features developed

  • Unit conversion add-on for oversized goods. Now the buyer does not need to calculate how many packs of bathroom tiles he needs to buy in 3 sq.m. The system will do this automatically and show how many pieces are in each package and how many square meters it will cover. The price will also be recalculated, depending on the quantity of the selected product.
  • Cart auto-calculation. When removing an item from the cart, the page does not need to be updated, the price is recalculated automatically.
  • The ability to collect sets of products while staying on one page. The system offers products of various categories that may be useful along with the already selected product. By clicking on additional products, the buyer can collect the entire bathroom on one page. First, it saves the client time. And secondly, it stimulates cross-selling and increases the average check.
  • Virtual categories and additional filters. The product catalog is very detailed and it includes many subcategories. In order to quickly switch and navigate through products, we have added virtual categories to the pages and the display of filters on the page.
  • Expanded the information in the product page. The website presents a large number of physical stores. For convenience, the product page now has a list of stores with the address, work schedule and product status: in stock or on order.
  • Since the assortment is large, special mechanisms have been developed for quickly and conveniently uploading product lists for promotion on third-party services: Yandex, Avito, Retail Rocket, Diginetica. Each service has its own individual solution.
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Our work results

  • Thanks to the optimized code and bug fixes, the site loading speed increased and positions in search results improved. The number of requests has grown from 400 to 3900.
  • Search time on a site with an assortment of 200K products was reduced from 2 minutes to less than a second.
  • Thanks to integration with third-party services, the site received additional promotion channels. As a result, the site’s traffic grew to 100,000 visits per month. Sales increased 3 times.
  • Updating the store is easy and it excludes the possibility of design errors.
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]]> Direct Aid — Social Donation Service https://cart-power.com/portfolio/direct-aid/ Sat, 20 Feb 2021 09:43:04 +0000 https://internal.cart-power.com/wp/?post_type=portfolio&p=10367 A high-load project for non-profit organizarion in Kuwait. The website can handle 12,000 visitors and 190 orders at one minute. Integrated popular payment system. Good deeds in one click.

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Direct Aid —
Good Deeds in One Click

Service for collecting donations for social projects in Kuwait

Direct Aid is a non-profit organization in Kuwait that raises funds for social projects. For example, drilling a well in areas with a shortage of fresh water, building a university, raising funds for healthcare needs. All donations are accepted online through the website or mobile application.

Field: collecting donations for social projects   Country: Kuwait  
Website Direct Aid

Main goals

The client had a simple donation collection service deployed on CS-Cart. Prior to contacting us, he was accompanied by another ecommerce agency, whose services did not suit the client: problems were solved slowly and client’s messages were not answered for several days. As the business and traffic were growing the load on the server has increased. Sometimes, during a large number of one-time donations, the load reached such a critical point ​​that the site simply crashed. The client started to look for another ecommerce agency to support the project and chose us.

As for 2020, we have been working with Direct Aid for five years now and we are regularly improving their website.
It feels great to be part of a project that makes the world a better place.

Our work process

Reduced server load

It was possible to reduce the load on the server with high traffic thanks to two solutions:

  • Setting up a distributed server system. Two servers are currently in use: one functions as a database server, and the second as an application server.
  • Code optimization. We corrected and optimized the code, reduced the total number of requests. Economical use of RAM makes the site faster.
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As a result, the server runs smoothly even during large advertising campaigns.
The site began to withstand loads of up to 30,000 simultaneous visitors
and 6,000 donations per minute.

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Donation mechanism improvement

We have improved the mechanism for making donations so that it is more transparent and visible. Now the visual scale shows how much money is needed for the project and how much money has already been collected, as well as how many people have made donations.

This builds trust and motivates users well to participate in campaigns.

Suitable payment method

The standard European payment methods were not suitable for our client, so we integrated the Kuwaiti payment system K-net into CS-Cart and developed an electronic wallet.

It works like this: each registered user receives an account in the Direct Aid system.
He can replenish it, and then choose it as a payment method and use money from it to make a donation.

To further simplify the donation process, we have added a one-click donation method. On the main page the user selects a campaign, presses the checkout button and, bypassing the cart, gets to a pop-up window to select a payment method.

Mobile application improvement

The client already had a mobile application, but it was not tied to CS-Cart and required some improvements. We have extended the CS-Cart API so that the service can interact with native IOS and Android applications so that people can donate via mobile devices.

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Analytic system development within the service

The administrative panel has a section with statistical reports. We finalized it to make something similar to Google Analytics, but for the specifics of our client. Now you can view users’ statistics depending on the category of the project they donated to; find out how many registered users and how many guests donated; who returned and who came for the first time. Statistics are presented visually in the form of charts and histograms, which is very helpful for service analysts.

Direct Aid has a corporate system (similar to 1C) where finances are kept. Together with the client’s developer, we integrated it into CS-Cart so that information from the database is loaded into the financial system. This allows automatic accounting reports generation.

Chat bot

If a site visitor does not know what he wants to donate money to or he is not sure how to find what he needs on the site, he can use an intelligent chatbot. The bot asks leading questions: “What do you want to donate money for?”, “Do you want to register or make a donation as a guest?”. In this case, it is not necessary to type the answer, you can just choose from ready-made ones.

Offline and online businesses integration

The more people learn about the ongoing campaign, the more donations will be collected. We needed a universal tool that would allow us to notify people even offline which allows us to find the Direct Aid website on the Internet and open the desired page without putting much effort. QR codes have become an excellent solution.

The client prints the QR code of a certain fundraising campaign, for example, on a banner in a shopping center, on flyers, on outdoor advertising banners. An interested passer-by scans the code with a smartphone and the campaign page on the website opens immediately.

This decision made it possible to “make friends” online and offline and expand the reach of the target audience.

We regularly help to organize events

Once a year, Direct Aid holds large-scale offline charity events. Famous guests are invited to them, who themselves donate money and encourage others to participate. For these events, we have developed an interactive presentation of fundraising: the countdown starts on the screen, the dynamics of fundraising and animated statistics are displayed.

People can see how the required amount is collected, and this encourages them to join and become part of the project.
A project that makes the world a better place.

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One of the last events we helped Direct Aid with took place in December 2020. It was a campaign to raise funds for the blind fund. A campaign page was created on the Direct Aid website, but the event itself was held on YouTube in the stream of the famous Arab blogger AboFlah (10 million subscribers). For this event, we have integrated a widget from the Direct Aid website into the YouTube broadcast.

It worked like this: YouTube viewers saw the campaign widget on the stream, followed it to the site, made donations and wrote a message to the general chat after successful payment. We processed statistical data from the CS-Cart side and sent it back to the broadcast so that all the values ​​on the widget were updated in real time. Each viewer saw how the fundraising was going on online and could feel being a part of a big deal.

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During the broadcast, the maximum number of stream viewers was about 25,000 users, and there were about 18,000 visitors on the site at peak moments. The site did a great job with this amount of traffic and the number of one-time donations. By the end of December, the broadcast had been viewed more than 8.8 million times, and nearly KWD 66,000 in donations had been raised. And these are great results! We enjoyed working in the social sphere helping people.

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Our work results

Great server performance

The server copes with any load even during a high traffic flow: it can withstand loads of up to 30,000 simultaneous visitors and 6,000 donations per minute.

Combining online service and offline promotion

Allows you to turn the collection of donations into large-scale advertising campaigns, including live broadcasts on YouTube. This helps to collect the necessary amounts for important social projects in the shortest possible time.

Convenient functionality

Now those who want to help have the opportunity to make donations even easier and faster due to convenient payment methods, a display of the fundraising process and a chat bot.

Integration with IOS and Android

Donations can be made from a mobile device
anytime, anywhere.

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Services

Functionality Development

Feedback from the client

Majed Sultan AL Za’abi

Thanks to Cart-Power we’ve created the best donation service across the Middle East.

Field: collecting donations for social projects   Country: Kuwait

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