High Volume eCommerce Developers
We got our start in the early days of Apple, building custom code for enterprises like Emco Corporation, Empack Straytech, and the City of Toronto.
Proud of our local community, we later decided to focus on helping established businesses in the GTA such as Newmarket’s Rangeviewsports, Scarborough’s Onelifemeals, Demenz and Toronto’s Lashgod.
Brick and Modem
There is a lack of cohesive software to help small brick and mortar stores to leverage eCommerce to scale up. The Shopify App Store and WooCommerce Plugin Store has become a minefield of software with many IT issues to fix. Skip the headache and use our systems which are suited for high volume and highly customized business models.
History of Sales
As of 2022 driving $9,000,000 per year in aggregate sales with 1.8M registered customers between our top four partners. We know online marketing and sales.
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$2M to $4M revenue through eCommerce Development
In 2019, a local brick and mortar store wanted to expand their offering into eCommerce. They tried two websites and developer teams before finding us. As we did earlier with OneLifeMeals, we immediately treated them as a long term partners, not just a client.
By end of 2022, we had hit $3.9M /year and projected to go well over $4,000,000 going into 2023. SKU count tripled. Site speed doubled. A second store location designed. The company’s F150’s grew. All focused to be the top outdoors and firearms retailer in Canada.
Over the years, we performed the following front-end improvements:
- Doubled website loading speed by migrating to Kinsta (Google Cloud Hosting for WooCommerce) and deleting low-budget, slow code
- Overhauled the entire website, adding features based on real customer complaints
- Optimized the product search bar and a clear way to filter thousands of products
- Built “department” pages, like Walmart or Amazon, each department area had different ads and graphics
- Custom coding to improve customer communication regarding special products or conditions
- Totally unique mobile site that feels great on the thumb
- Optimized media across the website and email newsletters
- Tap phone numbers to easily call the store and so much more
In addition to hardware, we improved the core of WooCommerce:
- Provided local phone and on-site IT support for entire staff
- Developed solutions for point of sale terminals, stock taking, marketing, payments, chargeback fraud, shipping, supplier tracking and insurance
- Reorganized the WordPress Menu so important items are at the top
- De-cluttered the notoriously messy WooCommerce Admin UI
- Added better SEO capabilities for staff to quickly build up meta content
- Developed automation and scripts for various operational tasks
- Added over 20 unique, company secret, features to gain an edge over the competition
- Added security measures to prevent DDOS and phishing
$0 to $1.3M startup through eCommerce Development
Before Uber Eats and meal delivery became ubiquitous, we were one of the first to leverage eCommerce and logistics into a 7 figure bootstrapped business.
Managing 100’s of orders and printing the right delivery labels became a top eCommerce pain point.
By end of 2022, we’ve hit $1.3M /year and moved to a much larger kitchen and warehouse. Meal variety increased by two fold and a second kitchen/cafe is set to launch.
As customers demanded more, the logistics software improved with new features for special meals, notes, cash on delivery and SMS messaging. To this date, our software is remotely operated at an affordable price.
There are many ways we customized the eCommerce website:
- 20,000 lines of code offline, 1000+ lines online
- Total site overhaul and total photography overhauls.
- Site speed and SEO optimization.
- Move of hosting to Google Cloud Servers, forced SSL, CloudFlare CDN, and Amazon DNS
- Google Ads and Tag Manager integrations.
- Custom eCommerce features such as subscriptions, member-only forms, tips, checkout details, and more
$4,000 MRR through Full Service Web and eCommere
KerinaMango.com ships roughly $50,000 USD per year as semi-passive income.
We ship physical goods, sell digital goods and also collect affiliate income.
Physical goods have a high profit margin and get fulfilled via Chit Chats Canada.
Blog posts rank top on google and affiliate sales are collected as part of Kerina's total $500,000-$1,000,000 in sales tracked.
Google Ads embedded for additional passive income.
Platforms and Tech We Integrated:
- ShareASale, RewardStyle
- WooCommerce
- Custom HTML development
- Dynamic Bio
Key Stats:
- 80% North American visitors
- 18.8% organic search through SEO
- 560 sessions per day, 56% bounc rate
Reviews
the project
E-Commerce Dev for Online Sports Retailer
"The team is highly professional and accurate when it comes to delivering their tasks."
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The client submitted this review online.
Please describe your company and your position there.
I am the manager and owner of Rangeview Sports in Newmarket
For what projects/services did your company hire Nordic99, and what were your goals?
our website was clunky and too slow with only 3000 skus. Our goal was to expand to 10,000 skus while make eCommerce success. We needed a working and faster website to let customers shop online easily
How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?
They emailed me when they found out the issue with Shopify and our industry. They sent us a detailed plan. Initially we went with a cheaper vendor and that turned out to be a huge mistake. The deciding factor was when Peter informed me that he is doing this work full time. We asked Peter to fix everything with our eCommerce
Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.
We had a few meetings and in person sessions to discuss what I wanted. Then a very detailed scope of works was laid out with milestones. Key deliverables included a new website, a new hosting, fixing speed issues, and improving the back end experience for staff
How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?
Peter was the main developer and from what I understood he worked with another senior developer here in Toronto for most of the work.
Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?
Our site became 2x faster, the design was much more profession, and soon our sales doubled throughout 2021! In addition we retained him for all IT help and other minor websites and fixes. It worked great and we are still working together
Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.
Very responsive and detailed project management. Deadlines, estimates, and documentations included. I prefer in person and phone calls as communication and that's what was delivered.
What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?
The quality of work is very high. The team is highly professional and accurate when it comes to delivering their tasks.
Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?
I wish there were more juniors in the company who could help us on site with in-store tasks as we are hiring still.
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Web Development for Beauty Services Company
"They are responsive and professional."
the reviewer
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The client submitted this review online.
Please describe your company and your position there.
Im the manager for LASHGOD INC, we offer beauty services, trainings and beauty supplies globally.
For what projects/services did your company hire Nordic99, and what were your goals?
Our website was outdated and we needed to level it since we have more and more products everyday and our goal was to optimize the SEO as well as improve customer shopping experience.
How did you select Nordic99 and what were the deciding factors?
We knew Nordic99 via word of mouth, and their achievements from our referral made us decide to go with them
Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.
We had a meeting to discuss our goal and deadline for the project. Then the team made an action plan, as well as the mockup. They first migrated our old website to the WordPress and improve more functions everyday
How many people from the Nordic99 team worked with you, and what were their positions?
The owner was the main contact and we also work with their project manager and some staff
Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?
The speed improved 50% since the new site was created and the customer shopping experience was doubled
Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.
We have a group chat that their team alway available every time we have emergency need and we jump in the meetings whenever we need
What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?
They are responsive and professional
Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?
there are always minor and unexpected bugs but they fix it as soon as we let them know
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Funnel Page & Proof of Concept for YouTuber
"They are honest and provide high-quality work."
the reviewer
the review
The client submitted this review online.
Please describe your company and your position there.
I'm the business manager for KerinaMango.com. We have over 2 million readers and ship world wide. We also have a connection to Kerina Wang's social media directly; enabling affiliate marketing income from her social media. My position is responsible for client negotiations and all business growing, including selling services and items from Kerinamango.com.
For what projects/services did your company hire Nordic99, and what were your goals?
Kerina's must asked questions are "where can I buy this?", and we had a very disjointed way of answering people and collecting affiliate income from the sales. Our main avenue was on 1 platform, but Kerina was on 3 different platforms. We needed our website to sync to all 3 platforms and let customers easily buy the products for more income. Lastly, we also had many IT issues needing to fix.
How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?
Peter originally designed the blog for Kerina and he was the natural choice to try to add eCommerce + social media linking to it. We also compared it with vendors on Upwork but did not go that path.
Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.
- 2017-2018: delivering WooCommerce integration with teachings on how to upload, browse, and maintain the product line. Add digital products (Lightroom presets) for KerinaPresets.
- 2018-2020: make a proof of concept website for Kerina's viral youtube videos and other youtube videos. A 1-stop hub for Try-On-Haul Shoppers. Peter built this but we didn't not manage to get this project off the ground.
- 2021-ongoing: Build a sync of 3 social media platforms that funnel into 1 "linktree" style page for easy shopping. Add subtle google ads to the linktree page. UI improvements on the core website. DONE and ongoing maintenance and improvements retained.
How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?
3 people from Nordic worked with us; Peter, a junior dev, and a senior dev.
Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?
After the recent update, we had people asking us how we managed to build our "funnel page". The page they built is now the #1 most visited page on our site! We saw an extra %20 increase in passive income via affiliate sales. Plus we also get income from Google Ads now!
Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.
He is based in Toronto so we have a very easy time communicating. For Toronto clients he's met up with us in person
What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?
They are honest and provide high-quality work. Hard to find local developers that don't break the bank.
Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?
none, we are still working with them!
the project
Web App Dev for Wholesale Foodservice Distribution Company
"They were a superb company that could find solutions in a reasonable time and cost without sacrificing the quality."
the reviewer
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The client submitted this review online.
Please describe your company and your position there.
We are a wholesale foodservice distribution company in business since 1960. I am the company president.
For what projects/services did your company hire Nordic99, and what were your goals?
We had Nordic99 develop our first ever company website. Our goals were to tell a story of our family business and the goods and services that we offer.
How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?
We had a personal reference in selecting this company. The deciding factors of choice were the personal service we received and the reasonable time and cost that the total project was developed in.
Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.
The scope of work was to develop a website for our company from scratch.
How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?
The project was developed for us by the company owner and his team.
Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?
It was amazing that the company developed our website in record time. They really understood what we wanted and delivered the product the first time around.
Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.
The project management style was down to earth and very accessible. They came down to our place of business to better understand our company on a one to one basis. They were very punctual and respective of our time.
What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?
They were quick to find us a solution to our challenges and did not create more problems in the process.
Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?
Not at all. They were a superb company that could find solutions in a reasonable time and cost without sacrificing the quality.
Thanks to the ongoing involvement of Nordic99, The company is able to gain a high-performing and fully-functioning site that continues to boost their sales. The team is consistently responsive, and internal stakeholders are impressed with the vendor's top-quality deliverables.