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Situational Summary

Printfection is a swag management platform located out of Denver, CO. Founded in 2004, they simplify the buying, managing, and distribution of swag and branded merchandise for their Clients: companies like Zendesk, Hubspot, and Hubspot.

Printfection makes it easy for these companies to create unique, company-branded swag and distribute it globally. This can be for a company’s internal employees (growing business for them, given an increasingly distributed work environment) or their customers. Competitors include Swagup and Sendoso.

There are around thirty people working at Printfection presently, with no one involved in engineering. Their current technology was written by their Co-Founder, Kevin Materi, and has been in production for over 20 years. Given their demanding clientele, Printfection realizes they need to improve their technology, which must be done by a dedicated team.

The long-term objective is to rewrite their entire application suite, including their primary customer-facing application, recipient pages, fulfillment portal, and their internal account management application. This will include a significant design/UX overhaul of most pages. It will need to be responsive for a set of (to be established) mobile device breakpoints; they anticipate native app development in the future. 

They will consider the first 2-3 months as a “POC project” when they can establish the protocols and processes of their new team. As far as engineering, they will focus on refactoring (with some enhancement) their Fulfillment application. They will redirect user sessions to the refactored pages as they are completed. The scope of this POC project is complete when all of the Fulfillment application pages have been refactored, deployed, and verified/accepted by end-users. The communication protocols and processes developed during the POC will inform future development for the remaining applications and the viability of their emerging engineering team.

That team will be led by a Head of Engineering, who has yet to be hired. That person will then hire two backend developers to be located, ideally, in Denver. They would like to engage a remote Partner to address their Front End, and QA needs: that frontend would be written in React. They have come to Accelerance to help with this initiative.

The resources needed from the remote Partner will be as follows:

  • (1) Senior/lead frontend engineer
  • (1) Mid-to-senior frontend engineer
  • (1) QA engineer (need to discuss) (both automated and manual)
  • (1) TBD UI Designer (may or may not be outsourced)

Printfection’s current technology is written in PHP (backend) and Smarty (frontend). They would like to move to React for the frontend, with APIs connecting to the backend. The APIs will be developed by their in-house team as frontend work dictates; they envision heavy API integration. While they ideally would hire a UX Designer locally, they could outsource this if the proper leadership can be demonstrated by a remote group.

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What Tekton Labs has to say about your project

Mike, 

Tekton is a Technology Consultancy and Development company with 13 years of experience finding digital solutions for complex business challenges. Our experienced team of Consultants, UX Analysts, UI Designers, and Software Developers help companies achieve their goals regardless of their stage.

Tekton has plenty of experience working with e-commerce implementations of different sizes and types. We have worked with Printfection´s technology stack and also with many others like Magento or Vtex We can help you maintain and extend the functionality of your current setup and provide different options of technologies, cloud providers, or even approaches to obtain more scalability, better performance, and even reduce operations or server costs. We are also a Select Partner with Amazon and have certified developers for Amazon, Azure, and GCP.

During our experience, we have built 3 types of e-commerce:

  • Custom-made: Based on specific challenges, we can create a custom journey for the users; manage the end-to-end process (Discovery, UX/UI, Development, Lifecycle Management).
  • Out of the Box: In some cases, we need to scale fast either with Vtex or Magento (Enterprise plans). 
  • Open Source: This goes from WordPress - Woo Commerce to Shopify. 

We look forward to meeting with Printfection to showcase all of our abilities, please have them check out our case studies: HERE

Lorena Ortiz

Chief Executive Officer for Tekton Labs

 

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What Applaudo has to say about your project

Ryan

Thank you for this opportunity with your client. We are excited to meet with them and learn more about how we can help them grow. As you know our bread and butter are to build long-lasting relationships and become a trusted advisor to our customers. We have expertise working for different industries such as retail, e-commerce, and delivery. Our Agile mindset and flexibility have allowed us to adapt to our customer's specific needs and approach each challenge with the right tools and capabilities.

Applaudo can easily ramp up your client's request with our perfected Discovery sessions where we bring in our Architechs, UI/UX designers, and QA team to create the detailed roadmap to determine what will be built and when. With this process, we are able to build scalable platforms and deliver fast, top services across multiple channels. We have designed efficient processes and assembled a team that can scale on-demand to adapt to your strategic initiatives and pivots. Our principles of collaboration, transparency, and constant communication allow us to guarantee our customers' projects are on the right track.

Please see some of our case studies: here

Please find specific eCommerce case studies: here

Andres Alvarado

Account Executive - Applaudo Studios

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What DB1 Global Software has to say about your project

Ryan

What an interesting project and client. Understanding the primary goals of your client, DB1 is interested and capable of becoming a reliable partner to this partnership. We have expertise in providing high-quality software development, through high productivity teams with extremely low error rates. At DB1 we share real-time management dashboards with our clients, demonstrating how result-oriented we are, by allowing them to experience a true transparency project follow-up at their convenience. We want to build this relationship based on success and openness between our businesses.

DB1 has a dedicated UX/UI team, working through a proven and mature UX methodology. From creating new projects to face-lifting old ones, the UX team goal is to provide the best experience possible to the end-user, bringing a modern design and adding competitive strength to the product. DB1 believes that this approach contributes to better customer engagement and retention, generating better results and revenue to our clients.

We look forward to meeting with your client to learn more about the project and show them the value we can bring to their company.

You can find an overview of our UX/UI service attached.

Best, 

Wagner Lopes

International Business Development              

 

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The next recommended step is to have a brief 1 hour video call with two or more recommended partners using a simple agenda below. You will use the calls to validate shared information while exploring other related topics like how they work with clients and how they would create and ramp up your team, what software development methods they use with clients, case studies, metrics, etc... You can choose to keep the call at the business level or you can make it more technical.

Partner Intro Video Call - Recommended Agenda

  • 15 min: Overview of your company background and project goals and objectives.  
  • 15 min: Partner overview and review of their ability to support your software development needs
  • 25 min: Q & A 
  • 5 min: Next Steps
Ryan Schauer
Partner Success Manager
Accelerance Inc.