Hillcroft approached us because they wanted to develop new features on their existing website but didn’t have the knowledge in house. After investigative work we advised that the best route was for them to future proof their website with a backend rebuild on the latest version of Laravel.
We initially reviewed Hillcroft’s existing codebase with a view to expanding upon it to be able to deliver the new functionality that they so desperately wanted. We’re used to hitting the ground running on existing code however once we had carried out our preliminary review we advised that it was in their best interests to move away from the old bespoke CMS from a previous agency that hadn’t received any updates for a number of years in favour of building their own platform from the ground up.
Hillcroft were already using 3rd party management software to handle all their stock, pricing and order fulfilment which meant that their new website needed to be able to handle syncing data with this system. We built scheduled importers that handled XML files sent from the existing system and processed them to ensure that the site was always up to date. The previous site was using the same XML files to push orders to their backend every 15 minutes however we were able to move these to use updated API requests meaning that orders are now instantly reflected in their management software.