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Ecommerce store for selling contemporary art

An online eCommerce store that allows buyers to experience the process of buying fine art online.

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Here are the expected components of the to-be-built website:

Extremely high image resolution with a high page loading speed accordingly;
BigCommerce integration as a chosen engine for the store;
Admin Interface - to manage product pages, add content, and access customer data;
Supplier Interface - unique profile and login credential management.
Access control - separate content for VIPs and partners, separate links for early birds;
‘Preview in your space’ feature - the website visitors should easily upload the image of their space, provide the measurement of other objects located in the space, and see how the piece of art will match the interior.
A custom checkout process matching the overall website design;
Integration with email marketing service and triggered email sequences;
Integration with Google Analytics;
Consistency with the languages and frameworks previously used in the company;
Additional UX research to match the art-appropriate experience and employ the standard eCommerce best practices for high discovery and conversion rates.

The Challenge

Are short time frames and limited budgets compatible with complex ideas?

Apart from a complex MVP idea, strict, inflexible deadline of 6 months, and a limited budget, PLATFORM wanted to ensure the development team could work in coding languages consistent with other projects in their organization.

In the end, with proper planning and role assignment, we managed to bring meaningful results and bypass the restrictions.

Our Process

For the PLATFORM project, we provided a team consisting of:

1 team leader,
5 frontend developers,
3 backend developers,
2 QA specialists,
and 1 Project Manager.

Then, to ensure continuity and logical progress, we adopted the following steps:

Market & stack research – involving user needs, the competitors' offerings, tools, technologies and UX & UI and allowed to pick the best-fitting tech for developing the expected functionality.
Product discovery – shaping our MVP that was to be delivered in 6 months max, while minor parts of the discovery phase took place during the next stages of the process.
Backlog creation – identifying the key deliverables, dividing them into smaller parts and fitting them into several 2-week plans with set priorities and regular reviews in the future stages of the project.
Backend + Frontend development – we decided to build our frontend application using NextJS, NodeJS, and ReduxJS. For the backend, we went with Django and Python + Wagtail CMS.
Integrations – the development team integrated Klarna payments option, Art Shipper shipping service, Omnisend for marketing campaigns and BigQuery for SQL inquiries.

Read more about the process on our blog.

what partners say about us?

The code and the work were good quality and really what we were looking for. They were able to bring technical design thinking to the project. Project management was tight and I always knew what was happening.

Daniel Kiyoi

CEO & Founder Magic Dust

Apptension was flexible and professional. When I needed to quickly add capacity, it took a week or two at worst - often days. The cooperation enabled me to slowly scale up my own IT team, and the company was very helpful until the last moments of the transition.

Mateusz Oleksiuk

CEO LESS_

The technical creativity delivered by the team at Apptension was invaluable in the formation of our mixed reality start-up Hyper.

Nathan Sparshott

Co-Founder & CEO of Hyper

The SaaS Boilerplate Apptension built was a huge reason we were so successful, because all these little seemingly unrelated tasks and integrations needed to happen. If we had been working with anybody else, It would have probably taken months to do the same work.

Kwame Nyanning

CEO blkbx.

We needed their help to build the backend services and capabilities needed to deliver a production level on demand. Their ability to produce high-quality work with consistency while dealing with a new type of project was impressive.

Kelly O’Conor

Product Lead, Siberia

The project’s success has resulted in a long-term partnership for design and development. Apptension is a fantastic partner, who is willing to go above and beyond in order to deliver what the client needs.

Catarina Rocha

p(r)oud solutions

Apptension fared well in our project, working with our bespoke CMS and complex requirements. The designs were implemented well and the schedule was kept tight.

Christian Marc Schmidt

Partner at Schema

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Platform

Ecommerce store for selling contemporary art

About

An online eCommerce store that allows buyers to experience the process of buying fine art online.

Are short time frames and limited budgets compatible with complex ideas?

In the end, with proper planning and role assignment, we managed to bring meaningful results and bypass the restrictions.

Requirements

Such an idea required lots of research, backend and frontend collaboration, and integrations with external systems to be brought to life.

Here are the expected components of the to-be-built website:

Extremely high image resolution with a high page loading speed accordingly;
BigCommerce integration as a chosen engine for the store;
Admin Interface - to manage product pages, add content, and access customer data;
Supplier Interface - unique profile and login credential management.
Access control - separate content for VIPs and partners, separate links for early birds;
‘Preview in your space’ feature - the website visitors should easily upload the image of their space, provide the measurement of other objects located in the space, and see how the piece of art will match the interior.
A custom checkout process matching the overall website design;
Integration with email marketing service and triggered email sequences;
Integration with Google Analytics;
Consistency with the languages and frameworks previously used in the company;
Additional UX research to match the art-appropriate experience and employ the standard eCommerce best practices for high discovery and conversion rates.

Roadmap

For the PLATFORM project, we provided a team consisting of:

1 team leader,
5 frontend developers,
3 backend developers,
2 QA specialists,
and 1 Project Manager.

Then, to ensure continuity and logical progress, we adopted the following steps:

Market & stack research – involving user needs, the competitors' offerings, tools, technologies and UX & UI and allowed to pick the best-fitting tech for developing the expected functionality.
Product discovery – shaping our MVP that was to be delivered in 6 months max, while minor parts of the discovery phase took place during the next stages of the process.
Backlog creation – identifying the key deliverables, dividing them into smaller parts and fitting them into several 2-week plans with set priorities and regular reviews in the future stages of the project.
Backend + Frontend development – we decided to build our frontend application using NextJS, NodeJS, and ReduxJS. For the backend, we went with Django and Python + Wagtail CMS.
Integrations – the development team integrated Klarna payments option, Art Shipper shipping service, Omnisend for marketing campaigns and BigQuery for SQL inquiries.

Read more about the process on our blog.

Platform

Ecommerce store for selling contemporary art

Here are the expected components of the to-be-built website:

Are short time frames and limited budgets compatible with complex ideas?

For the PLATFORM project, we provided a team consisting of:

Then, to ensure continuity and logical progress, we adopted the following steps:

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Are short time frames and limited budgets compatible with complex ideas?

Here are the expected components of the to-be-built website:

For the PLATFORM project, we provided a team consisting of:

Then, to ensure continuity and logical progress, we adopted the following steps:

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