A custom online subscription system
The client
This is a US association whose target client covers financial institutions, investment companies, securities firms, marketing organizations etc, which mainly focuses on providing its clients financial researches on sales penetration, profitability, compensation and compliance to benchmark their investments.
What the client wanted
For over a decade, the association has surveyed and studied the financial industry, and moreover formed the industry reports covering the valuable information and the analysis of industry trends. Our client required a customized online subscription system that would be uniquely fitted to its business process needs. The new system would automate many parts of what was then a manual operation, including online delivery of reports, payment processing, renewals and more.
The solution
Shinetech firstly carried out the requirement analysis followed by database and prototype design. According to the client, Shinetech's engineers adopted the popular open source web platform, LAMP (Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP) to implement the system. Depending on the special experience in LAMP projects' development, Shinetech's engineers turned their hands to system implementation in the shortest time. Throughout the whole process, Shinetech paid attention to the seamless integration with the client's workflow all the while.
The whole system was divided into two parts: the front-end management and the back-end management. The research reports were listed under categories in terms of target client. All the reports were able to be delivered electronically (via download link to PDF) or be shipped via mail periodically. The function of shopping cart was available. The features of this system lay in its online subscription and payment, both the payment of credit card and COD were transacted using the NaviGate gateway.
The back-end management was indispensable. In the system, the back-end management mainly covers products management, customers management, orders management, coupons management, subscriptions management, control panel management etc, which greatly facilitated the system's management.
The Mojavi framework was adopted to the system. Mojavi, as the open source MVC framework for PHP, realized the multi-layered system.
The benefits
- Time-to-market was largely shortened due to Shinetech's experience in LAMP development.
- A secure and reliable system was available.