Dynamic Online Technologies (SMC-PVT) Ltd

Exchange Collective

About Exchange Collective: It is a multivendor E-commerce platform where all the partner vendors will list their available products. It provides customers/users such a platform where they can have everything and can even have an idea about the price ranges and variation according to products available under different brands. Ground zero for this product can be defined as follow.

Retailers: With Exchange Collective, retailers had the ability to offer their customers exactly what they wanted, even if they did not stock the particular items which customers are looking for. This allows retailers to capture sales even when inventory is missing from their shelves. With Exchange Collective, retailers can give customers an “endless aisle” experience and the ability to support their business. This will create loyalty and trust with customers.

Brands: Brands will have a tool to get ALL their products in front of customers in ANY retail channel. This means customers will find all of the products anywhere they want them to. No more just hoping that retailers are carrying what customers are searching for, now brands can say, “Check your local retailer. They have everything!” Exchange Collective helps strengthen brand presence and build loyalty with customers. Customers: Customers are the most important part of any business. This is actually what we believe in and Exchange Collective is committed to give business the ability to give their customers the experience they deserve and they are looking for.

Implementation: The proposed solution was to have such a platform where all brands, retailers existed at same page giving customers a wide range of selection and liberty of choice. Technicalities: Keeping all the requirements and data traffic in mind we have to go with Node.js and Angular 6 for development of web and Progressive web app was developed in Ionic 4 using sails.js. For a web and application like this, the best option was going with MySQL. Later on it was revamped as client had some other plans. Traditional ecommerce behavior was developer in Laravel while admin/vendor panel was developed in Laravel as well. For the super admin we have to leave it as it was developed in Node.js. Brief Details: As explained above it’s a multi-vendor E-commerce platform where vendors can register their store and list products under a single store. All the data and products from each and every store will be displayed on main site which will be accessible to all the users.

We have been developing a middleware which was supposed to establish connectivity/synchronization between Magneto, Shopify, WordPress and Exchange Collective. Whether a vendor has a store on Magneto, Shopify or WordPress, Exchange collective data(products) was supposed to be populated on the store of the person regardless of the platform.

Admin Panel: Admin panel was developed to monitor all the data from different stores and to keep an eye on the stores. Admin panel provided ease to super admin to search any product of his choice and for that we have developed a Query builder where super admin was given authority to comprise filters to search products of his own choice. Super admin was given ease to make queries for searching data(products) put in database.

Apart from that super admin was provided with all the listings of vendors and their specific stores where as each vendor was provided with their store details and each vendor has been admin to his store and could manage all the data for his store.

Out of the box feature was page builder that was developed to ease out vendor for adding products in a more comfortable way. Vendor was only supposed to drag and drop images and put description against that specific image the in description area. On hitting submission product was there to be published. In simple words we can say predefined modules were been set up.