Brainvire

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Director of House Of Trends

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Barkisse is a pet-focused lifestyle brand that uses AI to transform customer pet photos into personalised fashion and gift products.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Brainvire Infotech Inc to accomplish?

• Develop a custom AI-powered workflow to generate personalised pet artwork from customer photos for use on print-on-demand products.
• Build a scalable and automated system that integrates AI image generation with our e-commerce and fulfillment process.

SOLUTION

How did you find Brainvire Infotech Inc?

Online Search

Why did you select Brainvire Infotech Inc over others?

• High ratings
• Pricing fit our budget
• Great culture fit
• Company values aligned

How many teammates from Brainvire Infotech Inc were assigned to this project?

6-10 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

The scope of work involved designing and implementing a custom AI-powered product customization workflow within our existing WordPress and WooCommerce environment.

Brainvire developed a front-end customer form that allows users to upload pet images, verified user accounts automatically, and integrated an AI-based background removal process to generate transparent pet images. These AI-processed images were then dynamically placed onto predefined product templates and added to the WooCommerce cart using standard checkout flows.

The project also included backend enhancements to store finalized images in the WordPress media library after successful payment, associate them with order metadata, and display them in both customer-facing order history and the admin order management interface for fulfillment.

Additional deliverables included UI/UX refinements to streamline the customization journey, centralized quantity handling for unisex products, product preview functionality, cart and checkout data persistence, and order-level image access for printer and fulfillment workflows. All work was delivered as fixed-scope enhancements without changes to core WooCommerce payment logic or proprietary AI model development.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

The project successfully delivered a fully functional MVP for AI-based product customization within our WooCommerce environment. Customers can now upload pet images, have them automatically processed through AI background removal, and preview the resulting image on a product before adding it to the cart.

From an operational standpoint, the system reliably handles user account creation, image processing, product attachment, and order-level image storage without manual intervention. This reduced internal handling time for custom orders and eliminated the need for manual image preparation prior to fulfillment.

The completed workflow validated the technical feasibility of AI-assisted personalization for our business and provided a scalable foundation for future enhancements and feature expansion.

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

Brainvire demonstrated strong project management throughout the engagement. Deliverables were completed on time and aligned with the agreed scope and milestones.

Communication was clear and consistent, with the team responding promptly to emails and questions. They were proactive in explaining technical considerations, offering practical solutions, and accommodating feedback during development.

Overall, the collaboration was smooth and well-organised, and their responsiveness and willingness to help made the project easy to manage from our side.

What was your primary form of communication with Brainvire Infotech Inc?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

What stood out most was Brainvire Infotech Inc's consistently positive, solution-oriented attitude. The team approached challenges with a clear “we can do it” mindset, which was especially valuable when working through technical and integration details.

We were also impressed by the level of team involvement. Multiple specialists were actively working on the project in parallel, and relevant team members regularly attended Zoom meetings. This ensured questions were addressed quickly and decisions could be made efficiently without delays.

Are there any areas for improvement or something Brainvire Infotech Inc could have done differently?

Overall, the engagement was very positive. If anything, earlier documentation around future enhancement options and potential next-phase capabilities would have been helpful for longer-term planning.

That said, within the agreed scope and timelines, Brainvire delivered as expected and was responsive whenever clarification was needed.

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I'm a department director of ddc, a company that specializes in contemporary European furniture, lighting, and accessories. We offer a curated selection of modern and cutting-edge designs for homes and commercial spaces.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Brainvire Infotech Inc to accomplish for your business?

We needed support to add new features to our website.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

Brainvire helped us add new features to our website, one being our order tracking. They worked with our internal data in CSV to make it visible in a secure way on our website. The team also helped us make some changes to make our website ADA compliant. For this, we followed directions from a third-party auditing company that tested our site for ADA issues. They provided Brainvire Infotech Inc with instructions on how to fix them.

Moreover, Brainvire created pages, modified the current template to add features, and helped us add small details to our template to make it more attractive. The team added the backend for us to update our order status and the frontend for our customers to look up their order status.

What is the team composition?

We worked with 2–5 teammates from Brainvire Infotech Inc.

How did you come to work with Brainvire Infotech Inc?

We found them through an online search. We chose them over other options because they had high ratings, their pricing fit our budget, and they offered good value for the cost.

What is the status of this engagement?

We worked together from August 2023 to November 2025.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

Brainvire Infotech Inc did what they were asked for and followed up with us to ensure we were happy with the results. The team went ahead and applied our requests to our staging environment, and once approved, they uploaded them to the live website.

How did Brainvire Infotech Inc perform from a project management standpoint?

Brainvire Infotech Inc was always very helpful and worked on a customer-first basis. The process of working with them was always clear, and their reports were excellent when it came to the budget. Their lead developer was always in contact with us so we could get our requests solved faster. Moreover, they always gave us accurate estimates of the deliverables of different requests. The team always treated our requests with the urgency we requested.

We mainly communicated through virtual meetings, emails, and messaging apps.

What did you find most impressive about them?

Brainvire Infotech Inc's speed in delivering changes to the site was impressive.

Are there any areas they could improve?

No, they were great.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am a manager at Rev-A-Shelf

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

We provide innovative solutions for cabinet storage.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Brainvire Infotech Inc to accomplish?

• Transition from Magento Open Source to Adobe Commerce
• Ongoing Development and Support
• Lighting Configurator

SOLUTION

How did you find Brainvire Infotech Inc?

Referral

Why did you select Brainvire Infotech Inc over others?

• High ratings
• Great culture fit
• Referred to me
• Company values aligned

How many teammates from Brainvire Infotech Inc were assigned to this project?

6-10 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

Brainvire was originally brought on to help us transition from Magento Open Source to Adobe Commerce. This project was finished ahead of schedule and under budget. Since then, they have become an invaluable partner by augmenting our staff to bring their expertise and knowledge of our system so that we did not lose momentum as our staff left the company. 

Our inital project was to bring both of our existing websites rev-a-shelf.com and trescolighting.com to Adobe Commerce. They worked with us to marry the two backend systems into 1 and help us transition existing code to work within the Adobe Commerce Framework. We expected this transition to take 6 months. With their help we were able to get it done in 4. Since then we have improved site speed and have had 0 downtime on our platforms. Code was also merged so that we are now able to do one set of code changes to deploy changes to both sites at once.
Brainvire is now an integral part of the Rev-A-Shelf Digital Development strategy helping us launch 5 additional websites and continuing to work on new smaller projects to improve our user experience and keep up with security updates as they are released.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

Our intial measurables were to move our websites to the Adobe Commerce platform without losing functionality or lose business functionality from our users. To track progress we set up communication via teams and 2 weekly meetings so that our in house team and Brainvire to openly and quickly collaborate. We created three environments, one for development integration, one for production staging and one for production so that we could move and merge code as different phases were complete. using Azure we tracked indivudual tasks and their progress towards the end goal.

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

Brainvire did a great job handling work from both teams and merging it into our repository so that the project progressed on time, ahead of time, to meet all benchmarks set at the beginning of the project. They were very responsive to changes and implementing best practices in terms of code and user experience along the way.

What was your primary form of communication with Brainvire Infotech Inc?

• In-Person Meeting
• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

Communication. Not only was the head of the company here in person and had his finger on the pulse of the entire project, but the daily communication was breath of fresh air compared to dealing with several vendors in the past where you may not hear from them for weeks.

Are there any areas for improvement or something Brainvire Infotech Inc could have done differently?

We have been satisfied with all aspects of our projects.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Founder & Director of Sprouters

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Kids gifting, customisation & activities 

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Brainvire Infotech Inc to accomplish?

• To get Sprouters e-commerce website functional

SOLUTION

How did you find Brainvire Infotech Inc?

Referral

Why did you select Brainvire Infotech Inc over others?

Referred to me

How many teammates from Brainvire Infotech Inc were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

Responsiveness:

○ We identified several issues in both desktop and mobile views, we recommend
conducting thorough cross-device and cross-browser testing to ensure all fixes are
implemented effectively and function seamlessly across different platforms

● Search (Semi-functional):

○ In addition to the existing search result displaying the product name and price, we
also need to include the category name.

● Search (Semi-functional):

○ In addition to the existing search result displaying the product name and price, we
Also need to include the category name.

Malware & Virus Protection (Missing):

○ We will implement both basic and advanced security measures on the website, some
of them are listed below
■ Use a WordPress firewall plugin to scan the code and monitor the internal
speed of the WordPress site.
■ Change the default table prefix for enhanced security.
■ Set appropriate folder and file permissions to safeguard data.
■ Install and configure security plugins to strengthen site defenses.
■ Implement protection against SQL injection attacks.
■ Deploy a Web Application Firewall (WAF) to block malicious traffic and
ensure site security

Website Clean up:

○ We noticed that your site contains multiple dummy pages, posts, and comments with
placeholder content, which negatively impacts your SEO and could harm your site's
credibility once ranked.
○ These pages are filled with random data and should be cleaned up as soon as
possible to prevent Google from marking your site as spam (as indicated by the
URLs).
○ Additionally, we have identified some unused plugins that can be removed to
improve site performance and security

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

Website started functioning properly 

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

Very good .. responsive , clear in approach, and they were professional in delivering their work.

What was your primary form of communication with Brainvire Infotech Inc?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

Very organised and clear in approach

Are there any areas for improvement or something Brainvire Infotech Inc could have done differently?

Not really 

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Systems and Online commerce administrator of American Lighting

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Wholesaler

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Brainvire Infotech Inc to accomplish?

• Create an E-commerce platform for our B2B
• Create an E-commerce platform for our B2C

SOLUTION

How did you find Brainvire Infotech Inc?

Online Search

Why did you select Brainvire Infotech Inc over others?

• High ratings
• Pricing fit our budget
• Good value for cost

How many teammates from Brainvire Infotech Inc were assigned to this project?

6-10 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

This project involved the development and deployment of a multi-storefront eCommerce solution built on the Magento platform, integrated with the organization’s ERP system. The goal was to streamline customer ordering, enable real-time access to personalized pricing and product data, and improve operational efficiency through batch API-driven order processing. Four distinct storefronts were created to represent each of the company’s brands, all managed under a unified Magento backend.

 
Key Deliverables:
Magento Multi-Storefront Setup:

Configuration of four branded storefronts within a single Magento instance.
Centralized administration for user, order, product, and content management.
ERP Integration:

API integration to retrieve customer-specific data:

Customer details (billing/shipping info, account type)
Product details (descriptions, availability, specs)
Customer pricing and pricing hierarchies (DN pricing, party-specific, and site-specific rates)
Secure synchronization of ERP data to ensure accuracy across platforms.
Order Submission Optimization:

Development of an API-driven batch order submission system.
Improved speed and reduced load by bundling orders in logical batches.
Confirmation and error-handling workflows between Magento and ERP.
Pricing Hierarchy Logic Implementation:

Logic layer built in Magento to determine pricing priority (site > party > DN).
Display and calculation of correct pricing per user login/session.
User Experience and Account Access:

Secure, role-based login with access limited to relevant brand/storefront.
Mobile-responsive design and intuitive navigation tailored to B2B buyers.
Testing and Deployment:

Full QA cycle for integration points and storefront functionality.
UAT sessions with stakeholders to validate customer journeys.
Go-live deployment with post-launch monitoring and support.
Documentation & Handover:

Technical documentation of APIs and data flows.
Admin user training materials and maintenance handoff.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

• 95%+ of customer logins showed correct pricing on first login, validating the integrity of ERP sync.
• Internal adoption achieved with minimal training time due to intuitive UX and admin-friendly configuration.
• Enhanced customer satisfaction from self-service capabilities and accurate data display across storefronts.

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

Clear and Open Communication:
The team maintained consistent and transparent communication channels, promptly responding to questions, clarifications, and issue reports. This ensured that blockers were addressed quickly and the project stayed on track.
Proactive Risk Mitigation:
They regularly surfaced edge cases and potential limitations early in the planning and development stages. This allowed us to anticipate downstream challenges, make more informed decisions, and avoid costly rework.
User-Centered Planning:
Their feedback was always focused on optimizing workflows and usability, both for internal users and customers. They took initiative in making suggestions that improved ease of adoption and long-term maintainability.
Collaborative Mindset:
Rather than simply executing requirements, the team actively engaged in refining business logic, aligning technical solutions with our objectives, and challenging assumptions where appropriate to ensure the best possible outcome.

What was your primary form of communication with Brainvire Infotech Inc?

• In-Person Meeting
• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

What stood out most was the team's deep understanding of both the technical and business sides of the project. They didn’t just execute on requirements — they actively participated in shaping the solution by offering thoughtful insights and suggesting improvements we hadn’t initially considered.

Their ability to identify edge and corner cases was particularly impressive. It showed a level of experience and attention to detail that helped us uncover gaps in our assumptions and make more informed decisions.

Equally valuable was their communication style — always clear, timely, and easy to work with. They made collaboration effortless and created an environment where we felt comfortable asking questions or requesting changes.

Lastly, their focus on long-term usability and adoption set them apart. Every recommendation they gave was aimed at ensuring the system would not just work at launch, but scale and remain maintainable over time. That level of foresight and strategic thinking is rare and deeply appreciated.

Are there any areas for improvement or something Brainvire Infotech Inc could have done differently?

More Visual Prototypes or Wireframes Before Development:
In a few cases, initial requirements could have benefitted from visual walk-throughs or mockups to help clarify user expectations and better align business stakeholders before development began.

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I'm the operations manager for Alarkan General Trading FZE, a free zone company for B2B export customers. Our core business is automotive spare parts, mainly for genuine Japanese brands like Toyota, Nissan, Mitsubishi, and Lexus. We have an import-export business and provide our services in the UAE to the local market.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with Brainvire Infotech Inc?

We needed help with e-commerce platform development. Our goal was to provide our customers with ease of access to our system, real-time prices and availability, and the ability to place their orders; it was mainly for B2B customers.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

Brainvire Infotech Inc developed our e-commerce platform from scratch. They took the UX/UI design from our existing website, used Adobe Magento to build the platform, and integrated e-commerce into the website.
The payment gateway is still underway because the project was done in phases. The first phase was to go live with the website. Existing customers can log in and create accounts to see the prices and availability, and place their orders. 
The second phase will start next month and include the payment gateways, credit facilities, and integration with our ERP system.
They also modified the design of our existing website and will include SEO services in the second phase. 

What is the team composition?

We were initially in contact with Mr. Chintan, their CEO. Then we met the project manager and two to three sales teammates. Once we signed the contract, we were introduced to Dipesh, the developer and a project manager. Between 10 to 15 people were included in the whole project, from the project manager to the developer and the project lead.

How did you come to work with Brainvire Infotech Inc?

Adobe recommended three or four partners to us. After a couple of meetings with everyone, we chose them.

How much have you invested with them?

We spent $80,000–$90,000.

What is the status of this engagement?

We signed the contract in October 2024. The first phase was completed, and we went live on February 15, 2025. We have already signed a contract with them for the second phase, which will start in May 2025. So, the engagement is ongoing.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

The team is amazing. They are unique, and we are happy with them. We are pleased that we chose them. They are pretty supportive regarding complex scenarios and achieving our goals. The team assigned the right people to us and helped us understand how the system works and how we can manage many things. We asked them to implement some tough stuff in the system for us, which wasn’t possible by default in Magento. However, they managed to do it for us.

How did Brainvire Infotech Inc perform from a project management standpoint?

When it comes to the project and the deadlines, you cannot consistently achieve them because of complex situations that might occur during the project. But they achieved the deadlines 95% of the time. Complex situations might occur during the project; 5% of the time, they didn’t meet the deadline because of us.

Between the integration and the first phase, we realized some complex requirements. We did not discover them beforehand, but realized some things and informed them. Meanwhile, we learned some things when the project was in process and told them. They managed to do it for us, but it slightly changed the deadline.

We don't use any project management tools. I have my tools to see the progress and communicate with the project management team; it’s pretty basic, but it works for me. We communicate with the team most of the time through Google Meet.

We had some online offshore meetings. The developer also came to the UAE to meet us and spent one month with us for the exploration and development phases. We also acquired the development team to be on-site, so they spent one and a half months with us. And even after going live, we had 10 days with them on-site support. So, for one and a half months, they were with us. And with the other team, we were having meetings on Google Meet.

What did you find most impressive about them?

Their top-notch support level and understanding of complex scenarios are their most distinguished qualities. Their developers and the whole team are pretty experienced. They suggested a few things that enhanced our website performance. 

Are there any areas they could improve?

We didn’t notice anything in the first phase. We'll see in the next phase.

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

To achieve better performance and results, you have to follow up and be on top of things. You need to follow up regularly. That’s what we did with them. We had weekly follow-ups and arranged meetings to meet their team in the UAE or offshore. It’s critical to follow up on each point, note all the pending points, acquire deadlines from them, and follow up accordingly.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the E-Commerce Manager of Wall Street Greetings

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Wall Street Greetings offers a variety of financial and corporate greeting cards for different occasions and purposes.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Brainvire Infotech Inc to accomplish?

• Redesign of product pages on our BigCommerce website.

SOLUTION

How did you find Brainvire Infotech Inc?

Referral

Why did you select Brainvire Infotech Inc over others?

• Pricing fit our budget
• Good value for cost
• Referred to me

How many teammates from Brainvire Infotech Inc were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

We wanted to streamline our product personalization in an efficient and user friendly design.  Briainvire was able use the Big Commerce platform and their own custom coding to deliver what we needed.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

Customer satisfaction, reduced time and errors during order processing. We referred to Brainvire by another corporate partner that was very happy with their abilities.

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

Weekly phone calls and daily emails kept our team informed on progress and end results were acheived and communicated efficiently.  Every request we made of them was handled and addressed to our satisfaction.

What was your primary form of communication with Brainvire Infotech Inc?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

We were impressed by the team's knowledge of how to achieve things other developers told us were not possible.

Are there any areas for improvement or something Brainvire Infotech Inc could have done differently?

We are very happy with the service we have received.  The only thing that may make things a little easier is a project management app that lists tasks/projects and notes reflecting the status of those projects.
What advice do you have for clients with similar needs to yours?
I would refer others needing web site developement to consult with Brainvire.  As stated earlier in my review, they have been able to give us functionality that other developers were telling us could not be done.

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I'm the COO of a soccer specialty retail store.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with Brainvire Infotech Inc?

We wanted to create an e-commerce website to have an online presence and increase our revenue.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

Brainvire is currently assisting us with our website and marketing. As for the website work specifically, the team has helped us with both the design and development of our e-commerce store, which has required working with Shopify as the tech stack. Additionally, Brainvire handles our ads, which include Google Ads and Meta Ads.

We've had multiple meetings with Brainvire throughout the project. During our first meeting, we discussed our business and what we were looking for. Once we decided to hire them, we had a second meeting, during which we provided them with more details about our company.

After providing Brainvire with all the details, we started sharing daily emails. During this period, the team focused on planning the project for our company. When the plan was approved by our company, Brainvire started working on the actual project.

What is the team composition?

We work with a lot of teammates from Brainvire — they're a big group. We have a team focusing on our website and another team focusing on our ad campaigns.

How did you come to work with Brainvire Infotech Inc?

We met them through a referral.

How much have you invested with them?

We’ve spent around $8,000–$9,000.

What is the status of this engagement?

We began working with them in February 2024, and the engagement is ongoing.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

Thanks to Brainvire's work, we've seen a tremendous increase in traffic on both our retail stores and our website. We've also noticed an improvement in our social media engagement and customer communication with our stores. For example, we've seen an increase in phone calls and emails from customers who want to reach out to us. Overall, our engagement and traffic have increased by around 70%, which is tremendous.

How did Brainvire Infotech Inc perform from a project management standpoint?

Our communication has been via email on a daily basis. They're always communicating with us and sending weekly and monthly reports. Whenever they have a question about whatever they're working on, they're great at communicating with us and staying on top of the project. We also have weekly meetings, and whatever we discuss in those, Brainvire delivers and takes care of our requests right away. We use Google Docs for document management and Zoom for our weekly meetings.

What did you find most impressive about them?

For each task we've worked on together, Brainvire has great teammates who handle it well. They're all great at what they do, and they've put together a great project for our business. They're all very involved, which has been helpful for our project to succeed.

Brainvire has been great at both our website development and marketing, so I'm very impressed with the results. I'm not able to tell if their strength lies more in one of the two areas because both sides of the project have resulted in positive results regarding sales and customer engagement. Their strength in both areas is very high.

Are there any areas they could improve?

Every week, Brainvire has been improving things as a team. The longer we work with them, the more they get involved with our business. Moreover, the more we capture things and follow their suggestions, the more we've been improving as a team as well.

I don't feel there's a particular area in which Brainvire needs to improve. As every week goes by, we've been improving and knowing what our business is and how we can keep growing it.

Do you have any advice for future clients of theirs?

Stay in constant communication with them and stay on top of it. This requires responding to emails and attending the meetings. This approach will help both sides, allowing Brainvire to complete projects and allowing you to get the results you're looking for.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the E-Commerce Manager of Kashkha

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

We are women's modest clothing brand based in Dubai: we have retail stores across 7 countries. We are mainly dealing in Women's dresses such as Jalabiyas, Kaftans, Ponchos, Kurtis, Nightwear dresses, maternity wear and Scarves/Hijab

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Brainvire Infotech Inc to accomplish?

• We wanted to rebrand our Shopify website.

SOLUTION

How did you find Brainvire Infotech Inc?

Other

Why did you select Brainvire Infotech Inc over others?

Other

How many teammates from Brainvire Infotech Inc were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

They changed the theme and optimized the user experience

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

How did your relationship with your partner evolve?

We engaged with Brainvire for our project, and their performance was commendable. They demonstrated a thorough understanding of our requirements from the outset and executed the project accordingly. 
Throughout the implementation phase, they encountered various challenges but consistently showed resilience and problem-solving skills to overcome them effectively. As a result, they successfully delivered the project within the agreed timelines and to our satisfaction. 
We appreciated their professionalism, expertise, and commitment to delivering quality work. We would not hesitate to recommend them for future projects

In what ways can they improve?

They should inform customers about the limitations of any theme. While implementing the theme, we encountered instances where theme support or functionality was either unavailable or restricted, resulting in additional project costs incurred for necessary enhancements.

What advice do you have for clients with similar needs to yours?

I would suggest the clients with similar needs below 5 things:

1. Assess theme features thoroughly.
2. Explore alternative themes and compare each segment of them giving scores. Whichever gets the higher score go with that.
3. Clarify support and customization costs upfront, if in case you want to add on or develop anything.
4. Prioritize project requirements clearly.
5. Communicate expectations and project scope clearly in writing with the vendor.

UPDATED REVIEW

This review was published on July 1st, 2024.

Roshan Kushalvardhan
E-Commerce Manager, Kashkha
Retail
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
51-200 Employees
Apr 2024 - Ongoing
Less than $10,000

Project summary
A women’s fashion company has hired Brainvire Infotech Inc to revamp their website. The team is responsible for rebranding and changing the Shopify site’s theme.

Feedback summary
Since they’ve been let down by other vendors, the client has been satisfied with Brainvire Infotech Inc’s work and performance. The team has maintained the project running smoothly, and they’re passionate about their work. Overall, they’re responsive and available to help the client.

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m an e-commerce manager for Kashkha, a renowned brand for women’s fashion. We have product lines like Jalabiya, nightwear, and ponchos. I manage the website.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with Brainvire Infotech Inc?

We wanted to rebrand our Shopify website.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

Although they have many other services, our primary focus with Brainvire Infotech Inc is revamping the website. We want to go ahead and change the platform; this will be our third time.

The website was already there, but they’ve changed it to a new theme. However, some functionalities aren’t available within the theme, so they have to do some workarounds to make the functionality compatible.

Initially, we shared our comments and expectations with them and shared a document. We discussed the document, what was possible, and what would be included. We decided on the final project, and then we started.

In the future, we might go ahead and move the platform from Shopify to Magento. Brainvire Infotech Inc is good on both platforms, so we won’t have to explain from scratch if we choose to change. It’ll be easier to migrate from Shopify to any other platform.

What is the team composition?

We’ve mainly worked with three teammates. Initially, a representative helped us understand the requirements. Once that was done, we contacted two people: a project manager and a technical person. She’s the one working on the project and communicating with us.

How did you come to work with Brainvire Infotech Inc?

We discussed our requirements within the group. We then approached vendors and spoke to many of them. We similarly approached Brainvire Infotech Inc, which looked like a technically sound company. We were looking for someone who could understand the requirements, and they knew how to work to fulfill them.

How much have you invested with them?

We’ve spent $7,000.

What is the status of this engagement?

We began working with them in mid-April 2024. The work is almost done; we will launch the new theme next week.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

We work with a few other vendors. Every vendor starts by saying something is possible, but when you actually start working, they miss many things. For example, we selected another agency, and at the time of implementation, we learned that they didn’t support the language we were looking for. We had to change our approach for the theme developer. Many said we needed to spend some money on this kind of job. Other vendors also said we needed to spend $2,850 for this, which was an additional expenditure. It was very expensive, so we couldn’t be up for it.

How did Brainvire Infotech Inc perform from a project management standpoint?

The project has been running on time. Due to the holidays, we haven’t been able to dive in, so there’s been some delay from our end. 

Are there any employees from the service provider's team that you would like to give a shout-out to in this review?

The developer is very valuable and passionate about working on the project. She doesn’t want to delay us and always wants to deliver within the timeframe. Whenever possible, she thinks outside the box and tries to fix things as soon as possible.

Similarly, the project manager always ensures that the project is going well.

What did you find most impressive about them?

They assist us whenever we require it.

Are there any areas they could improve?

They should suggest what’s going on with current technologies and how we can improve. Customers aren’t technically savvy about what’s going on in their own sites. Brainvire Infotech Inc could make suggestions and help us understand if there’s any other way. 

If there are any specific customer requirements, many developers just follow them; they won’t go here and there. They will ask what they’ll do in second place, but those pieces are essential; we can’t discuss every small point.

Moreover, when you start implementation, there are many components where you need to have something to add a certain functionality. For example, the theme didn’t support Arabic. We didn’t know that until we implemented it, so we had to rely on a third-party app. From our perspective, every development theme should support all languages and currencies.

After the issue, they told us it wasn’t discussed. They needed to customize it and recharge us. This wasn’t predictable. However, if a developer already builds websites for others who face the same challenges, they should tell us this happens so we won’t have any problems. As customers, we should never encounter such issues.

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

I suggest doing your proper homework during the implementation phase. Don’t naively believe in any developer; you should have good knowledge about what you want. Also, you should have proper documentation about your requirements and what is possible. When you’re orally discussing the project, every developer says that everything is possible, but when they start doing it, they can’t deliver what they promised.

Communication is essential. The person who initially communicates with you will say anything is possible, but the person working on the project will not be involved in that discussion. They'll have no idea what was said in the meeting, so they will follow what is written.

Additionally, when you decide on a project for a particular amount, and something keeps on coming, the project value will be high.

RATINGS
Overall rating: 4
Quality: 4
Cost: 4
Schedule: 5
Willing to refer: 4

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the President of Penn Tool Co

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

We sell Metalworking Tooling and Industrial Supplies online through website.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Brainvire Infotech Inc to accomplish?

• We had a file of about 200,000 skus that needed to be corrected in mass

SOLUTION

How did you find Brainvire Infotech Inc?

They invited us to dinner after a show.

Why did you select Brainvire Infotech Inc over others?

• Pricing fit our budget
• Company values aligned

How many teammates from Brainvire Infotech Inc were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

We had a very large file of products where we needed to hide a vendors part# from multiple places on the webpage.  It was not something I thought would be possible without problems with other items we list not related to this task.  Brainvire was able to quickly and effeciently do what was needed.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

We use Brainvire for multiple things on our Bigcommerce website.  So far they have been far and above any web development company we used.  Over a period of about 10 years we have used various developers and Brainvire seems the best so far.

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

They always seem to deliver in timely manner and understand tasks at hand.  If they don't know the answer they usually research and come up with plans that fix our issues.

What was your primary form of communication with Brainvire Infotech Inc?

Virtual Meeting

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

They are easy to work with.  Very respectful and professional.  Their rates are better than companies we used in the past and they are better than them also.

Are there any areas for improvement or something Brainvire Infotech Inc could have done differently?

Being they are based in India and English is not thier first language they can be a little hard to understand on calls.  We seem to work through that and get things done anyway.