Challenges

Online-only (no physical store) retailer of high-quality toys and furniture for children wants:

• to have separate stores for USA and Canada markets
• to manage all products and prices in one place
• to have different prices per country
• to translate all sites into two languages

Solution

We suggested and did the following:

• set up Akeneo PIM and created all required attributes for all required types of products and product variants
• connected two Shopify Plus stores to the same PIM
• developed a custom PIM command to push attributes translations to Shopify
• made sure that synchronization runs automatically to both stores
• implemented custom design of checkout (we merged cart and checkout into the same design)
• developed custom Shopify Scripts used to customize price and apply custom discounts

Used technologies and tools

• Shopify Plus
• Shopify Scripts
• Akeneo PIM
• Symfony Framework

Purpose

The idea is to allow users to buy or recommend beauty products to their friends either directly from the website, on the App, or through Instagram and earn 12% for every successful recommendation. Original description says:

Recommend from hundreds of brands and thousands of products. Log in to your personal dashboard to see how much you’ve made. You can cash out or curate your list of favorite products available on the site and have the products sent to you automatically when you have enough money in your digital wallet.

Solution

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