The document details a case study for a client's online store selling computer and electronic products, which requires integration of catalog and inventory management, along with a payment gateway. Key challenges include importing 180k products from a different categorization system, maintaining site performance during updates, and scaling for large volumes of data. The project is divided into phases for implementation of essential features, using Magento and various development tools for optimal performance.

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Case Study
Web Store with Catalog and Product Management

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The client possesses an online store. They sell computer and electronic products all over the
world. Client has subscription with two known companies for catalog management and
inventory management. The site admin has options to update catalog information from
company A and stock/price from Company B manually. All placed orders on the website would
be posted to Company B’s site and they will perform shipment for placed order on behalf of the
client. The client admin will update the order status from admin panel once shipment is
completed by Company B.
The client would like to integrate a payment gateway. The system collects all the credit card
information and other payment details which are then passed onto the payment gateway for
payment process.
Client would like to implement the following list of functionalities:
• Customer Testimonials
• Featured Products
• Image Zooming Options
• Tell a Friend
• Auto Search Suggestion
• Shipping Price Setup per Product
• CMS Pages Development
• Inventory Management
• Catalog Management
• Import Products/Export Products
• Product Price Calculation
• Order Management
• Order Tracking
• Show SKU and Stock Availability for each Products
Client Requirement
Project Challenges
The client has subscription of around 180k products and would like to import all the products
from company A to our existing Magento database structure. Company A has its own
category structure and client has a structure different from that of Company A. It would be
difficult to map all the products with right category. Each product has around 2-3 average
images and client wants to import all these images into the system with correct products.
Client also wanted to update the daily stocks and price of all the products. While updating
stocks and price the system needs to take care that the updates don’t affect the site’s
performance.
Scalability & site performance is a key consideration from the client. They would like to make
the system scalable with large volumes of data and visitors. They required making changes
at the database level, code level and server level for fast site performance.

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Technologies Used
Manpower
Planning
The project comprises of the following phases:
• Phase 1 – Import 71k products from Company A, implement the theme, setup basic
required extensions and implement PayPal payment gateway.
• Phase 2 – Implemented shipping price per product, new formula for setup price calculation
and Testimonial extensions. All this has to be uploaded for the project’s beta launch.
• This project is T & M based so further requirement would keep coming from the client’s
end.
Operating System &
Server Management
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
Development Tools &
Environments
PHP5+, Zend Studio, Magento, AJAX, Java Script, HTML5, CSS3, SVN
etc.
Database MYSQL Database Server, DB Clustering, DB Optimization, Master
Slave Replication, Query Optimization, Scheduler for Backups
Project Leader 1
Developers 1
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Architecture
Development Highlights
The project is developed using Magento open source due to the online selling store nature of
the website. We have implemented the following listed extensions with store:
• Company A Import Products
• Ingram Micro Store Update and Price Update
• Product per Shipping Price
• Payment Integration
• Image Zoom
• Testimonial
• Auto Search Suggestion
• Featured Products
• Homepage Image Slider