SolidBrain

About Client 

EximCrop is a freemium B2B marketplace developed for global agricultural businesses. As the world's first online Agri-Food trade, the platform delivers diversified services, ranging from a licensed escrow payment system to a trade financing & sourcing service. EximCrop ensures a fair trading environment for all parties, providing smallholders and manufacturers with direct access to global agricultural markets.

Challenges and Objectives

One of the main goals of EximCrop was to digitize the global agricultural trade, therefore, providing manufacturers, sellers, and food companies with new opportunities in terms of the rapidly growing online business environment. 

Yet, the client could not fulfill their fundamental objective without a high-performing online platform. To overcome this challenge, SolidBrain was requested to create a unique eCommerce solution that enables access to food at the right time and in the right place.

Aimed at strengthening global food security, EximCrop needed a complete solution to handle trade financing, escrow transactions, global sourcing, and a free marketplace within the scope of one web platform. 

Solution

Although delivering eCommerce marketplaces is a truly challenging task with hundreds of tricky nuances, our skilled experts have undeniably managed to solve all emerging issues in a creative and professional manner. Using PHP and JavaScript, we started with an implementation of a complex payment system between sellers and buyers. Next, we simplified document flow between the users of the marketplace. Finally, supplementing this extensive functionality with a clear and friendly UI, we also put an emphasis on the improvement of interaction speed between sellers and buyers.

About Client

GPL is a group of companies specializing in manufacturing, distribution, and selling combustive-lubricating materials, technical fluids, auto parts for passenger/commercial vehicles, accumulators, and accessories. Currently, the company is an official distributor of more than 60 manufacturers.

Challenges and Objectives

One of GPL’s income sources includes the support of other companies with products, technologies, additional tools, and assistant services. The SolidBrain team developed an Online GPL platform for the optimization of the company’s internal processes. The main focus of our work was on making the solution with stable performance and easy-to-use tools so that the GPL’s clients could swiftly make any orders or communicate with the company’s professionals. Such an approach ensured a boost in the sales level. Our experts also came up with practical ways to implement steady communication with the users. On top of that, this online platform improved shipping processes and reduced supply chain costs. Here are the core enhancements we achieved:

• With our solution, GPL’s database can now contain over 1 500 000 goods

• Our team realized the automobile parts search for the particular vehicle model to improve customer experience  

• We support uninterruptible CI/CD integration

Looking for quick and effective platform development, GPL turned to SolidBrain and got a team of digital experience professionals who met their requirements and established constant feedback exchange. 

Solution

The SolidBrain web developers applied Vue.js and Laravel to create the platform and work on the compelling UI structure. Our main goal was to facilitate the search process for GPL’s clients and make it as fast and painless as possible. The SolidBrain team used ElasticSearch to reach this goal and ensure the maximum efficiency of the service. Additionally, we employed the Laximo and TecDoc services to integrate a specialized system of automotive component selection. With its help, our client can also create a personal online catalog. 

To develop a reliable database system, we used the Lumen framework. We built a database abstraction with its help and were able to successfully incorporate it into the platform. Thus, Online GPL was created as a capacious system offering a wide range of products.

About Client

Trident is a Ukrainian travel agency with offices in Kyiv, Uzhgorod, Lutsk, and Lviv, arranging and supporting safe and comfortable trips for thousands of tourists. Their travel managers personally check the quality of the hotels and airlines, making sure that their clients receive the best services. 

Challenges and Objectives

Trident Travel is one of the leaders in forming and providing travel packages around the globe. The company needed to develop a website that would allow their clients to use fast search engines to find the most suitable tours. The client also aimed to make the booking process as easy as possible to improve users’ experience with their website. The core features we focused on included:

• Simple and intuitive search system with a variety of filters that help to set the desired destination, prices, number of hotel rooms, type of apartments, and their star rating.
• Wide booking options that allow users to book hotel rooms, plane tickets, and many more. TridentTravel also wanted this function to support free cancellation of the booked apartments.
• Payment gateway that allows users to pay for the booked rooms immediately via the website. This feature makes it possible to turn on the automatic transfer of the money from a debit/credit card or insert the data manually.

They chose SolidBrain to reach all these goals with the help of our web development team. 

Solution

Using Vue.js, our team worked on the development of Trident’s website. We concentrated on API integration and making an intelligible UI. With the help of the Laravel framework, the SolidBrain team built MVC architecture behind the website to make it work more smoothly and establish steady communication between the layers. 

On top of that, our developers employed Elasticsearch to implement modern search techniques that not only allow for quick and painless service search but also provide convenient metrics audit. With its help, we also ensured the security of the search engines and the possibility for business scaling. 

The SolidBrain team integrated a payment function and APIs that simplify the booking process for Trident users. We connected the website to an online banking system and took care of its security and stable performance. Additionally, our experts built a cancellation feature for accommodation booking.

About Client

Since 1880, Stumpel has been considered the best Hoorn-based store with a unique selection of competitively priced books, magazines, greeting cards, and luxury office supplies. From literature to thrillers, from children's stories to travel guides, and from science fiction sequels to cookbooks, this one-of-a-kind family business has every kind of product to satisfy even the most demanding customer. Trusted by countless companies, institutions, and governments, Stumpel is a recognized leader in the domain.

Challenges and Objectives

Thanks to such a long and fascinating history behind their trademark, Stumpel managed to form an extensive client base. Hence, as an owner of the majority of stationery shops in the Netherlands, the enterprise experienced the urgent need to conquer new digital heights. 

Yet, today it is impossible to serve clients without a cutting-edge eCommerce solution. In 2020, the company's owner Jeroen Stumpel decided to upgrade the existing website Stumpel.nl based on Magento 2. 

Our team was requested to develop and maintain the optimized version of the website, enriching it with broader functionality, attractive design, and a next-gen navigation system.

Solution

In order to optimize the existing solution, we utilized PHP, which is considered the optimum choice for building many high-performing websites, either dynamic or static. Thus, our developers optimized the database and changed its structure, upgraded server configurations, and implemented uninterruptible CI/CD configuration. We thoroughly tested the existing website speed and prioritized the pages and features that need the most attention to accelerate the website's overall performance and page load time. As a stable foundation for a navigation system, we applied ElasticSearch to reach the maximum efficiency of the search service. Finally, our development team uploaded and configured the Firebear, Amasty, and Koongo modules.

About Client 

Aimed at increasing the transparency of the Polish real estate marketplace, Terrao is a unique startup designed to solve sales assistants' challenges. This leading-edge company not only helps to sell and advertise plots but also enables the next-level comparison of offers in a particular region, fostering informed investment decisions.

Challenges and Objectives

Thanks to its unique technology of selecting and verifying land by state authorities and cadastral numbers, Terrao has excellent prospects at the European level land market. Bearing this in mind, assisting clients with their decision-making process was a fundamental Terrao's objective. 

SolidBrain was requested to create an easy-to-navigate platform that would enable users to perform the necessary manipulations to quickly achieve their goals, including both finding or selling a plot of land. 

Our primary tasks were the official identification of the land at the seller's request and a convenient search for the buyer. At the same time, it was essential to equip each land plot with detailed information to understand the client's needs quickly.

Solution

Our expert team delivered a high-performing web platform that handles multiple processes under one roof. While our main intention was to help Terrao meet both buyers' and sellers' expectations, we came up with a cross-functional search/publish mechanism based on the local Polish market. We designed a simple and user-friendly interface to easily navigate users through the real estate marketplace depending on their goals, whether it is buying or selling property. Based on a solid technology basis powered by PHP, Laravel, and ElasticSearch technologies, to mention just a few, this solution efficiently organizes the search for land products for further ownership.

About Client

Auto Standard Group (ASG) is an association focused on ensuring quality services on the Ukrainian automotive market. With more than 20 years of experience, ASG has become one of the largest auto product distributors in Ukraine, working with more than 150 suppliers in Europe and Asia.

Challenges and Objectives 

ASG searched for a tech vendor who could create a reliable platform matching their internal management requirements. They needed a solution that would optimize and support their sales processes, serving as an effective tool for gaining competitive advantage. 

The SolidBrain team helped ASG to develop such a platform, increasing their sales levels. Our developers have worked on the system that ensures fast communication with the clients, reduction of supply chain costs, and improvement of shipping management.

A quick search on the website is key to creating a positive customer experience. We used ElasticSearch to reach this goal and allow for maximum service efficiency. SolidBrain's approach establishes an easy and intelligible website structure, attracting more clients with its simplicity and usability. Here are the main points that added to the platform’s integrity:

• Database configuration making it function more effectively given that it includes over 2 000 000 goods
• Development and implementation of automobile part search for specific vehicle models
• Implementation of uninterruptible CI/CD integration

Solution 

Mainly, we have built and maintained a B2B ordering platform. Our developers worked on integration layers behind the website’s POS and mobile apps. On top of that, they ensured stable performance of the customer’s business applications. Over 50% of ASG’s B2B business is processed through the ordering tools we developed for them. Using the Laravel eCommerce framework, we generated an omnichannel solution for ASG’s retail store consumers to boost the customer satisfaction rate. Our approach also improves user experience and maintains effective service delivery. Additionally, we integrated Laximo and TecDoc services to accelerate the search engines on the platform.