The client within the expansion of his business has planned to launch the production of construction adhesives under its own brand "Glue Warehouse". We had a task to develop a comprehensive solution, which would include an online store, CRM/ERP system to manage sales and customers, and a module to integrate with the existing in the company document management system, on the basis of IBM Lotus Notes (hereinafter Lotus Notes). It was necessary to ensure cross­browser compatibility in the following browsers: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari и Internet Explorer 7+.

The main features of the online store:
1. Store is focused both on retail and at wholesale;
2. There should be a custom system of creation, confirmation and account activation
3. The ability to create various price lists and bind them to the accounts
4. Interactive tool for selection of adhesive color depending on color of kitchen countertops of different brands
5. Credit module which allows accounts to apply for a credit limit and system administrators to consider and process applications
6. Multi­site with a choice of 1 of 7 languages.
7. The possibility of converting currency.

After analyzing the customer's requirements, it was decided to develop a website and control panel on a single platform based on PHP framework Codeigniter, which at that time was one of the best MVC frameworks. MySQL database was selected as a data store, which was later replaced with a more powerful database ­ Percona Server. For the realization of payment with credit cards, we used cybersource service. Also, during payment we use authentication technology 3­D Secure. To integrate the online store with the Lotus Notes document management system we selected SOAP communication protocol.

Also, we used the following technologies and services in the project:

­- jQuery (and numerous plugins)
­- Ajax
­- ExtJS
­- SOAP
­- cybersource.com
- Fedex API
- zip2tax.com API
- Amazon SES
- Amazon CloudFront
- Google PageSpeed

- Designer – development of the website design, various illustrations, print products, email newsletters;

­- Project­manager ­ communication with the customer, distribution, and control of tasks implementation;

­- 2 PHP programmers – development of the functionality and frontend;

-­ Lotus Notes specialist - ­ SOAP service development for the exchange of information;

-­ Tester – functional and cross­browser compatibility testing.