ShopSky

Challenge

The client’s goal was to develop robust, intuitive, and high-performance mobile applications for both iOS & Android platforms that offered a smooth & consistent shopping experience.

During the development process, the first challenge we encountered was writing custom algorithms from scratch that helped to display specific products based on categories like “Best-Selling”, “Best Colors”, etc. After a few modifications & tests, we were able to write perfect algorithms that displayed products as the client desired.

Apart from the custom algorithms for product display, the next challenge we faced was when we’re configuring the RMA extension. Thankfully, our certified Magento developers resolved the issue wisely and successfully integrated the RMA extension just like the client wanted.

Approach

We started this project with an extensive conference call with the client & collected his requirements, analyzed them thoroughly, and prepared a scope of work document for the client to review. After getting approval from the client, we immediately started working on the project.

To build native mobile apps for iOS & Android platforms, we utilized Alamofire for iOS & Retrofit for Android to meet client’s needs. Additionally, we also used SDWebImage & Picasa for image caching.

Along with this, we also built several custom features & functionalities in both applications to fulfill the client’s specific requirements.

Here is the list of all features/functionalities we developed to achieve the client’s vision for ShopSky iOS & Android mobile applications.

• Integrated Elasticsearch to help ShopSky customers easily find products that they’re looking for.
• Added the Wishlist feature to let customers add their favorite products to buy later in the store.
• Custom-designed a product gallery with videos to improve the shopping experience for customers.
• Added Store Locator functionality to let customers place an order online and pick up the same offline from their nearest physical store.

Result

In the end, we helped our client build fully functional & personalized native mobile apps for iOS & Android that ultimately increased the conversion rate by a whopping 70%. And not only that but the company also witnessed an 85% increase in overall traffic & a 75% increase in revenue.