Work

Stone Technologies

Connecting to a complex ERP system, containing over 70k products, customer info and orders with Adobe Commerce B2B

Service

Adobe Commerce B2B, Magento Support, Integrations

Industry

Distributor, Electronics & Equipment

Technology

Adobe Commerce

Website

convergetp.co.uk

The Client

Stone Technologies Ltd, A Converge Company is one of the UK’s largest circular IT solution providers to educational, public and private organisations.

The Brief

Before contacting Fluid, they had a brochure website that signposted customers to one of their sister companies to make a purchase. All sales and customer service was done manually by phone or email.

They came to Fluid for a website that would allow the public to buy products and access their services directly. Their goals were to:

In addition, Stone Technologies had a list of requirements for the site and their custom-built ERP. They needed someone to help guide then on a CMS and ecommerce system.

Following a series of highly technical discovery sessions looking closely into APIs, we determined that B2B Adobe Commerce was the best solution for the business.

Services We Provided

Adobe Commerce for B2B

Transform your ecommerce sales, customer portal, processes and performance​

Adobe Commerce and Magento Support

By your side as much or a little as you need us

Adobe Commerce and Magento Integrations

Connect your Adobe Commerce store with the systems you already use

Ecommerce Consultancy

By your side, guiding the way to ecommerce success with commercial insights and technical knowhow

The Solution

Adobe Commerce

Adobe Commerce’s integrated B2B capabilities lets users:
Adobe Commerce (Magento 2) was the perfect fit for Stone Technologies due to it’s integrated B2B features and its ability to connect smoothly with their internal ERP system.

Adobe Commerce automates and simplifies everything that their account and sales managers used to do manually.

Seamless ERP connectivity

Adobe Commerce connects seamlessly with Stone Technologies’ ERP system. Their internal ERP system contains all of their products, orders, sales and customer information.

With more than 70,000 products, it was essential that their new B2B site connected smoothly with this system via API connections.

The Work We Delivered

The new Stone Technologies B2B site was launched in 2022 on Adobe Commerce 2.4.2.

APIs

Once everything was documented, our back end developers built out all the APIs. We wrote the framework and created multiple custom tables in Adobe Commerce that would allow us to store and index the data being received.

Multiple front end developers also worked on the ambitious designs produced by IF Collective. These required a lot of technical work, breaking the norm of Magento Frontend design and functionality.

Throughout the build we continually tested the APIs on our side, working with Stone Groups in-house developers to test on their side to ensure it worked with their ERP system.

An exciting part of the project was creating client-specific portals. This allows customers to log into the website with a unique URL, and gain access to a custom set of products and prices.

This was done by utilising the databases in the back end, pulling everything together by the API. With multiple API calls on a page, depending on what the site gets back from their ERP will determine what is displayed on the page.

We integrated the site with key technology partners:

As Stone Group has 10s of 1000s of products, the site needed a powerful system that could handle the volume, producing search results instantly. To enable this, the integration with Klevu, the AI-powered search solution, was extremely advanced.

We integrated Klevu’s search and category navigation modules, integrating a category page that was custom-built by Klevu using custom Java Scripts – one of the first of its kind.

Portfolio

Work That Delivers

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