Case Study Magento Based Web and Mobile Based POS System with Backend ERP www.brainvire.com 2016 Brainvire Infotech Pvt Ltd Page 1 of 1
Client Requirement The client owns the pioneer telecom group company in the USA, serving the US Military. The company sells the network supplies as well as mobile phones and accessories like adapters, iphones, antennas, iphone covers, enclosures, wireless systems as well as power supplies and switches. They have got stores in Afghanistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, to name a few. The client has been facing problems to handle the orders, products and customers for so many stores in different countries across the world and wanted a solution to manage them. Brainvire team provided them with suitable solution and built a point of sale system customized as per their requirements. They wanted proper management of barcode, inventory, orders and refund on cashier as well as management level. The features of the point of sale for network supplies store are: Defining the roles to cashier and manager Payment methods cash, star card, eagle cash and PayPal for credit card Catalog management Inventory management Warehouse management Checkout with discount Customer creation and record management Cash drawer Email and print receipts Reports z, z report by date, list store, End of the day and weekly Barcode scanning Store staff management Store management Order list for last 30 days Refund management Different sections for refund as per the reason for returning damaged order and return to stock www.brainvire.com 2016 Brainvire Infotech Pvt Ltd Page 2 of 2
Project Challenges Our Magento professionals did great job by implementing a perfect customized point of sale solution for the mobile phones and accessories store. However, our team faced a few challenges when developing the POS system for network supplies and mobile accessories store Barcode management Z report for managers Damaged order section Printing barcode Inventory purchase as well as finance reports Speed optimization Smooth checkout Star card payment method Technologies Used Operating System & Server Management Development Tools & Environments Database Red Hat Linux OS, Multi-Server Architecture with Staging & Production Environment through Version Controlling releases, Server Optimization, Security & SSL Implementation, Scheduler for Back-ups, Alert Monitoring System Integration, Server Performance Tuning at regular intervals, Software Firewall Configuration & Maintenance, Varnish, Redis Cache PHP5+, Magento Community Edition 1.9.1.0, Apache/NGINX Web Server, AJAX, Java Script, HTML5, CSS3, jquery etc MYSQL Database Server, DB Clustering, DB Optimization, Master Slave Replication, Query Optimization, Scheduler for Backups www.brainvire.com 2016 Brainvire Infotech Pvt Ltd Page 3 of 3
Manpower Project leader 1 Developers 6 Designers 2 QA 2 Planning After analyzing the problems faced by client, our highly qualified, skilled and certified team of Magento professionals discussed and came up with the one stop solution to all the problems, which was building a point of sale system for their ecommerce store. As client was facing problems in managing orders, products, customers, transactions and checkout, our experienced designers and developers planned to construct a POS system that made checkout smoother and showed the lists out the orders, save orders, refund orders and damaged orders. Architecture Looking at the complexity of the POS software for mobile accessories ecommerce store and exact client requirements, the developers, designers and project leader decided to go with the Magento architecture: www.brainvire.com 2016 Brainvire Infotech Pvt Ltd Page 4 of 4
Development Highlights Apart from the basic features, the software has got cash drawer that shows the offline sales and show reports like Z report, z report by date, weekly report, end of the day report and list store report. The z report differentiates the roles if managers and cashiers. Also, it shows the sales on the basis of payment method and it shows the quantity on the basis of category. Also, it shows the report for particular duration when from and to date is selected. Our Magento team designed and implemented the POS keeping in mind the problems faced by the client. Their hard work and dedication was worth, as client was extremely happy with the results. The sales of the store boosted up to 1 lakh dollar in seven days after the implementation of our web based point of sale system in their ecommerce store. www.brainvire.com 2016 Brainvire Infotech Pvt Ltd Page 5 of 5