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Client Spotlight: My Pet My Part

Thursday, January 7th, 2010 by admin

The Plum Tree Group worked with Sue Pierce, animal lover, on an e-commerce Web site inspired by her rat terrier, My Pet My Part. A successful marketing professional, Pierce came to us with a project that gives consumers the ability to purchase pet supplies and donate a portion of your purchase to you favorite animal charity. Sue also went the extra mile to ensure her Web site was a certified “green” site.

This project was unique because we were able to try out unorthodox extensions. And now, as an official Magento partner, The Plum Tree Group utilizes the robust Magento platform because it has the ability to fulfill the e-commerce needs of any size business. For instance, we implemented a charity extension that automatically deducts 10% from each sale and also allows users to donate an additional amount to the charity of their choice. We also built a donation report in which the admin can monitor the total donation amount received for each charity.

Additionally, we built an extension to manage testimonials, called Happy Tails. Every animal lover loves to see, hear, and tell stories about their animal experiences. The testimonial extension allows the admin to review and approve the testimonials prior to being published.

Finally, the fun part was the integration with a dropship vendor, BCI, which included product import, recurring inventory updates and integration with vendor’s order fulfillment process. Experience My Pet My Part and explore the site.

Our team of project managers, developers, marketers, and designers ensure projects with complex integration are completed with accuracy and success. You can read about more our Magento projects.

Officially a Magento Professional Partner

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 by admin

Read all about it! We have exciting news here at Plum Tree Group regarding our Magento partnership:

Last week we meet with the Vice President of Sales for Magento to discuss becoming a professional Magento partner.  We’ve been waiting for this interview for some time in anxious anticipation. We first became interested in being listed on the MagentoCommerce Web site about 7 months ago after completing our tenth Magento project.

Magento provides a great open source platform and is easy for our clients to use.  We contacted Magento and demonstrated our expertise with the product by submitting our growing Magento portfolio, seen here. Two weeks later we received a call letting us know that they would be flying out one of their team members to meet with us the following week.  As luck would have it the weather was horrible all week and flights into O’Hare were limited to say the least.  After weeks of coordinating schedules, we happily met with the Vice President of Sales.

I am proud to say on behalf of the sales department and our development team efforts that starting in 2010, The Plum Tree Group’s MagentoCommercePros will now be listed as a professional partner on the Magento Web site.

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