API Integration

For our local football club we first developed a basic Magento environment. Mostly because the people who managed the clothing needed a system to keep their stock up-to-date, etc. After that, we decided to add a webshop to the environment, so we actually enabled the frontend of the webshop.

We already had a website, running on a custom CMS framework. The problem was, that this framework was outdated and we weren't able to upgrade this anymore. Since we're both experienced Magento developers, we started thinking of merging the website and webshop together, so we could manage everything in one system.

At this moment, the Magento installation contains a webshop, a stock management system, narrowcasting and a website. The narrowcasting is used to display information, like rankings, results and fixtures within the clubhouse. All the results are live updated, based on the official API of the Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB). This means that shortly after a match has ended, it will be updated on the screens.

The website also shows this information and uses the same API integration. Also, since a football club has a lot of teams, with a lot of people in those teams, we decided to make it possible to get access for an account to one specific team page. This means that this person can update team information like staff, players, etc. and could also add information to any match his/her team plays, together with adding a Facebook Photo Album.

The project is still in development, with new features being added on a regular basis.

• Created a custom loyalty (reward points) program. • Built a custom theme. • Integrated the ERP (NetSuite). • Created a subscription (recurrent payments) module. • Installed, configured, and tweaked community extensions. • Built various custom features. • Performed server tweaking.

Customized customer dashboard user experience and added real time communication with the internal ERP which uses a proprietary TCP protocol. (CODIS). Added custom access restrictions module at store, category and product level dependent on customer group.

Supported Minimegaprint for 2 years, with very difficult situation after I claimed the project, it was on magento 1.6 with edited core code, took over 6 months to upgrade to 1.9 which was latest at the time and from php 5.3 to php 7 which dramatically increased performance of the site. At the same time new theme was being worked on. I provided many services along the support and upgrade, such as building custom modules for whole process of the website from registration of a customer to checkout, and after the checkout. Minimegaprint being web to print solution is very complex and it required exceptional architectural and planing skills to pull out many processes to work automatically such as accepting file to be printed after order, generating XML transactional sheets that were synced with printing automation software. Other than low level customizations, all frontend custom code was prepared by me as well. Site contains over 20 custom modules I created, stretching from very simple ones such as homepage slider, featured products, custom menu, custom category sidebars, all the way to complex ones such as custom rules on registration and vat validation, customer group related filtering of shipment and payment methods, automatization of whole order status process, custom loggers to track the site stability and more...

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