Brainvire Develops Community Platform for Shoppers and Buy Products
About
About Client
The client is an ecommerce seller dealing with a wide range of products. They approached Brainvire to create a common platform for shoppers who desire to research, rate, review, and recommend the products. The application is for shoppers of all categories.
Project Highlights
Brainvire’s development experts designed an application that has integration with top shopping portals such as Amazon and Shopping.com. Users can search the products for any category with the help of the application which fetches the search results from these websites. Besides sharing the product information, reviews, etc. users can also buy products.
The Challenges
- Managing productsThe client wanted to properly manage the products from different sites.
- Making the site iPad compatibleThe portal required iPad compatibility.
- Integrating AJAXIntegrating AJAX was important for the client.
- Robust architectureCreating a robust architecture to support features was challenging.
Tech Stack
CSS 3
JavaScript
Symfony
AJAX
HTML5
PHP5+
XHTML
SOAP
REST API
Result
Customizable folios
The portal allows the users to create their folios, add products they own or they wish. It offers centralized access to multiple users for creating and editing folios. offer centralized access to multiple users for creating and editing folios.Timely delivery
For the timely delivery of this solution, we specifically used the Symphony framework with RAD (Rapid Application Development) methodology.APIs for interactivity
The system makes extensive use of APIs such as Facebook, REST, SOAP, LinkedIn, etc. to add interactivity to the website without the need of adding too much code.SEO Optimization
Extensive pre-development research was carried out in order to integrate the third-party websites for product search and adding products automatically into the application’s native database. The website was developed keeping the SEO-promoted architecture in mind.
