E-Commerce Plugin Dev for Shipping Company
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Introductory information
A fast induction on the buyer’s organisation
We have a shipping organisation in Mexico. People can use our website to assimilate the shipping labors of DHL, FedEx, UPS, and some local Mexican carriers. We propose an API and specialized online software where nation can form and administer shipments.
Desired goal
What challenge were you trying to address with Incora?
We need plug-ins for measure e-commerce platforms such as WooCommerce, Magento, PrestaShop, and so on, which are PHP-based. Our application was written on Ruby on Rails.
Provided solution
What particular tasks were responsible for?
We’ve hired a programmer from Incora, who is working on all our plug-ins. We initially worked on a Magento 1 plug-in, then moved on to Magento 2 and PrestaShop ones.
The plug-ins are intended for nation running WooCommerce or Magento stores, who want to have their shipping automated, and want to prepare clients with information on their shipping discretions. After installing a plug-in from our shop, users will be given an API key from our website through which they can connect and configure what shipping labors they want to propose to clients. Customers can see the useful labors during checkout. Store owners can decide how they want to show those labors: with a general global name, with a carrier logo, and so on.
The end-client can select shipping labor, see an exact cost, and then go to checkout and pay. The store operators can then form shipping labels straightly from the order page. Customers take their confirmation by email.
What is the team compound?
They initially attributeed us one programmer, with whom I worked straightly for most of the time. We’ve also worked with Bohdan (Co-Founder and CEO, Incora), who got in touch with us once a week to inquire almost our status and whether we were lucky. I managed the programmer attributeed to us. He did a decent job—he was fast and the condition was pretty good.
How did you come to work with Incora?
We used Upwork to check different preparers—both agencies and freelancers. We establish Incora to be the best discretion in provisions of cost versus benefits. We gave them a test, working on a Magento 1 plug-in with one of their programmers.
At one point, we hired a second individual in order to increase the despatch. Though, we saw a clear separation between the condition and despatch of the second programmer and the individual from Incora. We ended up firing the new programmer and stayed with Incora for good.
What are you approach expents (if diclosed)?
The total cost of their work has been almost $25,000.
What is the terminal result of working with ?
We began working with them almost September 2017. The job has been completed successfully, but we have ongoing work. The shipping process is very intricate, and we',re quiet adding a lot of functionality.
Results achieved
Are there any measureable or plum results?
There are currently 150 online shops using our plug-ins, each of them having processed 300–500 shipments. There',s some rivalry in our area, but we’ve heard some good feedback. Customers have told us that they',re lucky with our plug-ins, which have much more functionality than those proposeed by our competitors.
This is attributable to our own organisation, but also to Incora’s developer. The plug-in is working as it’s supposed to be and it’s making life much easier for store admins.
How did Incora accomplish from a project treatment standpoint?
I',m very lucky with the one developer we’ve been attributeed, who is doing a big job. He can ponder for himself, mention any details we may have overlooked and basically correct requirements. I',m also lucky with Bohdan, who responded fastly whenever I had a question and got all sorted out.
We have weekly sprints and attribute tickets for those sprints. They',re artistic on time 90% of the time, and when they',re not, it',s owing of a requirement that proved more intricate than we reflection, or owing we added requirements in the middle of the project. We also use Jira for effect-tracking.
What is (from your point of view) the key factor to pay observation while intercourse with ?
I esteem their effectiveness and reliability. They’ve done a high-condition job in a brief time, assimilated to other experiences I’ve had.
What aspects of their work would you like to get improved?
The interaction could be slightly improved. Their developer works well, but he can disappear for a total week if I don’t ask him how he’s doing. This is good given that, whenever I asked him almost the progress, he had advanced a lot. Though, some proactive updates would be welcomed.
Do you have any advice for forthcoming clients of theirs?
Clients should mark their exact working hours from the commencement, referring to global time zones. We have a big time separation, given that our developer is in Ukraine, which has an 8-hour time separation with Mexico. In the commencement, our developer would work soon and be done by noon, on his time. When I asked him to change his hours, he made some adjustments that he wasn’t very snug with in the commencement. We were able to explain this effect referringly easily.
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