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Since 2003, Adishian Law has earned local and national traffic on their blog, but their once tidy web data reached overwhelming levels. The time spent adding or editing content was taking longer than it should. Web managers, users, and blog readers felt the negative effects from the data overload.

There were too many internal pages to sort through, too much data to load for a user, and articles too hard to find. Something had to be done, and that’s where Endertech came into the picture.

The purpose of the project was not only to restructure and upgrade the website, the owner also needed his site to be easy to maintain and grow. For a website that produces content regularly, it was important to create templates to use when adding new pages and posts.

This simplifies the process down to nearly a drag-and-drop method when creating new content for the website. The templates also minimize the possibility of future errors, like mis-categorizing new content, and data creation. Templates help manage data and maintain consistency in the long run.

Their team can more easily manage rich content creation that helps optimize brand awareness, expert law input, and increase client leads, without all the icky issues of data management.

FFOHome.com is a 60+ location business who’s Shopify based website required a good boost along with other custom integrations. 

The custom integration was not only to collect data, but develop communication lines between sales and inventory channels.

To gain efficiency within the multi-store infrastructure, several tasks were necessary.

• Storis Implementation
• Shopify and Storis ERP Integration
• Shopify Fulfillment Automation

Their new custom ERP integration helps manage in-store pickups, exchanges, refunds, cancelling sales and fraud prevention.

Overall, this custom integration helps to bring real-time updates across their regional locations and warehouses, which increases efficiency, reduces costs and improves the customer experience. Plus, the Shopify and Storis integration creates more reliable data, empowering local and regional managers to make better and faster decisions.

Capital Coders is an impressive example where business process management software provides a solution to technical setbacks inside a private software network. What does this mean?

Even with their success, through data collection of their own, they found a lot of time was being spent in certain sections of their workflow and was costing them unnecessary delays.

The new virtual environment of templates now leverages macros, which means programming longer tasks into shorter sequenced steps, but with the same output. Also, the addition of hotkeys is also an enhanced feature. Hotkeys are shortcuts on the keyboard that complete a function at the touch of a button.

After our combined efforts, we implemented a new user management system for personnel in all levels of their work process. From the moment recent chart lists are imported, coders have a new virtual workspace that speeds up their work and increases accuracy, while it provides Auditors and Super admins a centralized location to mitigate managerial tasks.

The career center was dealing with a piecemeal site, which means it was put together using different technologies as they gradually added features.

The new site needed:

• Connection with CSUN’s student database
• Interactive career profiler
• Secure log-in access
• Color-coded design across all career applications

With all the years of generating new content and data, the tasks of organizing, transferring, modifying, and finally placing everything inside the site was a colossal project.

Our Drupal developers developed code to properly import the CSV files inside the Drupal module and gave it a set of guidelines to identify each of the columns inside the CSV files.

Ultimately, easily identifiable data can be requested and found much faster when a specific action is processed by students, staff or other web applications. This structure also gives any developer a manageable environment to create and perform tasks necessary for new functions to be added or tied to the website.

CSUN’s career center now offers a higher-quality, and interactive resource making them a leader in today’s career counseling standards.

Web development project for an online searchable database that included a Stripe subscription model and a marketing campaign to gain traction.

The major problems facing public sector hiring managers and new talent are repetitive actions that take you from site to site entering the same account and job information. The goal was to break existing virtual barriers for job seekers and city hiring managers alike.

To make this possible, we implemented the use of Symfony and MySQL. These technologies help with organizing and sorting data, while producing faster results when using search tools inside and outside the site.

CityGovJobs provides a valuable resource for a segment of the labor market. Making good use of properly grouped data inside the website, we started a Google campaign to increase traffic and subscribers that increased organic traffic by 1,600%.

After years of planning and researching, our client has seen his vision of an online job database come true. The website has solved factors in the hiring process by featuring automated functions that speed up actions for users on both sides. The site can house massive data and is built to sustain exponential growth.

Drive Solutions, a company that sells aftermarket hard drives, data transfer kits and computer memory cards to private and public parties across the globe was in need of new web development services for their ecommerce business. 

In the development of the new parts-finder website, there were specific SEO drawbacks to deal with. With the previous data sets, when customers went to search engines to find answers to computer parts, Drive Solutions’ products wouldn’t always match customers’ search queries.

 Drive Solutions overcame the tech hurdle of a lagging website by upgrading to a Magento parts-finder website, remapping and transitioning data while leveraging AMASTY extensions to further customize product list and details. Revamping the website highly increased the functionality for the company and their customers.

Solving Conduit’s problems relied on customized developments to cloud-based speech recognition software (Rev.ai) that can introduce and expedite the work process inside a custom user interface.

The process of converting audio files and integrating speech recognition software into a custom web application presented many hurdles for Conduit.

For Conduit to be able to grow and take on more clients, nearly all stages of their workflow needed to be updated. This included updating their API integration software connected to third party speech recognition software, the output quality of Transcription Pages, the dashboard for users and managers, and security controls to protect records and client data. 

Customizing their workflow of audio-to-text conversions, quality transcriptions, manager and user interfaces, and automated updates and secured files, allows Conduit to provide speedy, accurate, and secure work with a higher guarantee to their clients. 

Cataloging thousands of wigs into detailed options was unsuitable under their previous platform. Therefore, WigSalon sought a custom Magento 2 upgrade to solve the data and ecommerce difficulties for their business.

After analyzing the existing product data, it was clear a complete data transformation and migration was necessary for a pristine custom upgrade. To correctly transfer tens of thousands of products to the new site, a custom backend architecture was necessary.

The custom Magento theme design that included data refactoring and web extensions, made shopping and data tracking faster and easier. WigSalon has minimized the time required for small, but necessary tasks like product labeling, inventory and accounting. The custom Magento upgrade and backend architecture brought the ecommerce business up to date and to its maximum potential.

For ClearStart it was more important having features fit their already established product and brand theme. Our recommendation: simplify. Focus only on the features necessary to allow productive use of the website.

ClearStart’s major concern was finding a company to trust given the short deadline. Through our consultation, we established a trust that led us to inspect developer details, and plan the project accordingly. We took the results of our analysis and compared it to their wishlist. This helped us give them a better expectation of what needed to be done, (and what they could do) before their time-sensitive launch. Our analysis gave more comfort and appreciation for an achievable MVP product.

Leveraging Endertech’s expert use of the Liquid template language, our team added functions in the code to make custom changes. We aimed for the desing themes to further connect the user experience with the brand. Something that ClearStart cheered for from the beginning. The designs included custom names, descriptions, and hashtags to be displayed uniquely across multiple pages of the site. Leveraging the knowledge of the template language, Endertech accommodated and maintained these crucial design requests. Overall, maintaining full design control over small elements was the distinction ClearStart needed to stand out from other brands in the market.

When HD Buttercup approached Endertech, they had a clear vision: a revamp of their website in order to better track sales, keep tabs on inventory, update products, and maintain their customer databases between their online store, and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). After the initial planning phase, Endertech knew exactly how to get this done, and created a plan to execute.

This project focused on a Shopify and Storis integration. The hub where all activity moves between Storis and Shopify is made possible by the custom built middleware that lives’ in the cloud. With their new website, many of their business processes were automated or simplified. The day-to-day tasks are completed faster and more accurate to coordinate data and inventory amoung all the locations.  

Established in 2010 with a defining purpose of Stronger Faster Healthier, SFH came to Endertech wanting to enhance their user’s experience. At the top of SFH’s checklist, they set out to achieve compounding sales growth, introduce a customer loyalty program and improve on a store-locator function that focuses on a premiere retail partner.

Our project with SFH focuses on building customer loyalty by combining the Magento platform with extensions from Swell Rewards and Aheadworks Store Locator.

The newly built functions give SFH the capacity to learn current customer data and make informed decisions on strategy, product launch, and market trends.

Doyle’s operations worked efficiently, so whatever was done couldn’t interfere with employees’ existing activities. But unlocking years of data constructed in a non-standard way would require exporting it as-is and then normalizing it–that is, structuring it in a more standardized, logical, and streamlined way. The tasks for the front-end website were to modernize it, make it easy for managers to update editorial content, and adapt it for mobile.

Beginning with a period of consultation to understand the client’s business, objectives, and competitive pressures, Endertech transformed the data structure for access by Drupal 8, the latest version of the robust and flexible content management framework. The design team created an entirely new, mobile-friendly UI with an emphasis on imagery and ample white space to eliminate clutter and immerse the user in an elegant, high-end web experience. The site architecture lets visitors find what they’re looking for easily and pages load instantly, despite the heavy use of images. In addition, managers can now easily modify and control site content.

With more businesses using a subscription-based e-commerce site, new technologies in payment processing have emerged. The solution here was to customize Stripe and implement Sonata Bundle for Bill’s subscription business.

Stripe supports proration payments out-of-the-box. Where it needs customization, is when the administrator needs to collect payment at the time of upgrade by a subscriber. This change called for Endertech Stripe API developers to carryout. Collecting the prorated amount upon Upgrade is something that Stripe has no built in support.

This allows customizing the payment system for your online store to set features that compliment your overall strategy. 

Natural Curiosities sells high-end reproducible art concepts to wholesale buyers. When they came to us their accounting and fulfillment practices were out-of-sync with the growth of the business causing a backlog in order shipments. With an eye on aggressive growth over the next several years, Natural Curiosities needed a partner to help them streamline their online business, integrate with their back office and fulfillment – after they reimagined and revamped the forward-facing customer experience with their e-commerce store.

Using the Magento e-commerce platform, we configured a fully-functional online store optimized for mobile and ensuring it was efficient and responsive. We redesigned the look and feel of the site, optimizing for the customer experience, and assisted with the import of all their product data. Once that was done, we trained their staff on catalog management, customer set up, and order processing. Post deployment, we are helping them achieve their long-term vision by analyzing their back office systems and making recommendations on how to improve their operations.

Since launching the new and improved version of their site in May of 2015:

• Reached 6-figure revenue within first few months of being live.
• Improved site page speed.
• Improved search engine visibility for critical search terms.
• Increased their efficiency by 50%.

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To date there have been many solutions and systems we have built for United Oil and their 130+ stations that have become a part of the daily fabric of their operations. All these solutions have come to save their employees and the company time and money as processes that were once laborious chores performed with carbon paper and pencil, became digitized.

Each solution has been born from Endertech's talented and insightful business/technical minds collaborating with UO’s managers and employees to understand their current processes, their data needs, and working together to invent new computerized processes that eliminate waste and free up resources. Some of our custom-built software solutions have saved UO from seven figure expenses that would have otherwise been incurred by outside vendors with pre-packaged industry solutions.

Endertech's custom software products have saved UO countless man-hours over the years, while improving communications to remote locations and with customers. Our web-based approach have all but eliminated deployment costs since no special software is needed at remote locations. In these cases, we’ve built the software, perfectly tailored to UO’s needs, for a fraction the cost of "off-the-shelf" proprietary industry software.

Many businesses go through growing pains with their sites since they start being roadblocks instead of assets to their business. Choosing the right platform is a crucial first step in creating a system that is tailored to your business needs. The first Milk Jar Cookies site was stuck on a platform that wasn’t quite equipped to grow with their business.

Magento 2 offered standard e-commerce features out of the box that were already more robust than their previous platform(Drupal, a CMS system). By using the Magento 2 Platform, our team was able to open up the possibilities of creating more robust customizations and integrations to other services like ShipStation that helped speed up and grow their business.

Endertech deemed the new Magento 2 platform to be appropriate for the Honeybee Health business model. Magento 2 is an advanced, flexible, open-source platform that we customized to match the client’s needs in areas such as membership subscriptions, search functionality, autocomplete, and checkout features. Magento 2 was deemed superior for this project than any of the popular software as a service (SAAS) platforms because some of the elements Honeybee Health desired cannot be done natively on those other shopping platforms.

Due to regulatory control in this vertical the client found it very desirable to work with a domestic development partner. Working with a US based agency also allows for easier and more fluid communication along with a reduction of hassles and delays that typically come when working with resources in another part of the world, including time zone misalignment and language nuances.

Hanashirtco.com is one of Endertech’s longest enduring clients, and their website was created by our agency back in the day using our original ecommerce framework. As ecommerce and the web in general grow as an industry, so do the parameters by which all successful websites are judged. As such, The Hana Shirt Company was ready to commit to a mobile responsive website with an updated design.

The design team chose a minimalist approach towards HanaShirtco.com’s redesign. One which remained simple, stable, and beautifully compelling,  all the while the underpinning Magento 2 core was significantly expanding its functionality as part of this holistic redesign undertaking. Our devs used a blank vanilla theme approach to this project, kind of like starting on a blank slate and brought a new design to life.

Other customizations included the option of adding product identification numbers and shirt sizes to their invoices if requested by the client for easy order fulfillments and follow-ups.

Math Exercise is committed to using internet technology to deliver math tools that also encouraged the use of paper and pencil to improve math skills.

A database cataloging and facilitating distribution of workbook materials, the logging and tracking of each child’s performance, and providing to subscribers access to those items would all occur online.

The core of ME is of course its materials. Subscribers are provided access to math workbooks containing problem sets and their accompanying answers.

Such a PDF security solution was achieved using a modified version of PDF.js. The result is a JavaScript based PDF viewer as opposed to the traditional Adobe Reader browser plugin.

ME is somewhat of a traditional E-commerce business (i.e., workbook materials are the “product”) but it also provides services via a web application (i.e., a student’s performance can be logged and tracked). As a result, website speed was very important since it equated to how “fast” ME would be serving its customers.

A well designed and developed start up website resulted from the collaboration of MathExercise and EnderTech. Although its a hybrid of E-commerce, web application service and content distributor, the site still provides “speedy” service to its subscribers. It also provides varying levels of access to a database of printable (but not downloadable) workbook materials to several categories of subscribers.

The site envisioned by USA Projects (“United States Artists”) began as a social network for artists to connect and interact. It evolved into a crowdfunding site for artists to connect their projects with organizations and individual donors to obtain the necessary monies to bring them to fruition.

The collaboration of USA Projects, Endertech, The Propellant Group and Distinc_ resulted in a well-designed and developed Crowdfunding site with Social Network functions. It effectively connects artists, arts groups, philanthropic organizations and individual donors on various levels. From matching the parties at the campaign funding stage to subsequently connecting donors and artists for updates on how the project is progressing. And for the non-profit Hatchfund.org, much needed economic efficiencies were realized by the use of open source technology (Symfony) and scalable server space (Amazon AWS).

Pick My Solar is an online platform for homeowners to get hassle-free bids from solar panel installers – and learn about the process of going solar. Pick My Solar engages a network of trusted installers who bid on the solar projects that come in through the online bid generator.

Max and Chris from Pick My Solar came to us seeking to redevelop the infrastructure of their website in order to increase efficiency and better scale their business. Pick My Solar already had a marketing site, but they needed to build an online workflow for both people searching for solar panel installation and solar panel installers wanting to bid on jobs.

Using Symfony, the leading PHP framework, Endertech engineered registration workflows for homeowners and installers, a solar energy calculator to assist with the lead generation process, and a bid analysis engine to automate the matching of homeowners to installer bids. Plus, Endertech configured the server environment to be highly available, durable, and scalable to ensure that downtime was at a bare minimum and monitored at all times.

Since deployment of the new Pick My Solar site with its Bid Generator, installer marketplace, and back-office systems:

• Thousands of visitors have used the bid generator.
• Site visits have grown more than 60% over the last six months.
• Pick My Solar has seen a steady increase in homeowners looking for solar bids.

BakonUSA.com

Thanks to a successful collaboration Bakon USA’s objectives have been achieved with a well designed, visitor friendly site. It is representative of Bakon USA’s North American presence, provides them control over content in a user friendly manner, and most importantly generates leads for potentially convertible customers. Its prior site was unnavigable and only generated a few random leads. The new site produces an average of 6 leads per day.

Bakon USA and the EnderTech team continue to collaborate to grow and improve the site. Currently in development is a project to add a product configurator. Visitors would be able to “play” with the various options available for Bakon products. For example, seeing the affect of adding a liquid syrup pump to a jelly glaze sprayer. The more time that a potential lead spends on Bakon’s site playing with product options, the better the chance of converting them into a customer.

“It’s really fun to see that even over a weekend we’re getting requests for quotes from the site. Our business is essentially open during the weekend even though we’re not there. And when we receive requests from all over the world, it makes us feel that there’s a borderlessness to our online presence.” Luc Imberechts, Bakon USA President

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