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Sharps Brewery

Evaluated eCommerce platform migration from .NET to Magento, creating detailed specifications and wireframes for Sharp's Brewery.

Overview

Sharp's Brewery is a British regional brewery company founded in 1994 in St Minver Lowlands, Rock, Cornwall, by Bill Sharp. Since 2011, the brewery has been owned by Molson Coors. It is best known for its flagship ale, Doom Bar, the bottled version of which has been brewed in Burton-upon-Trent, 267 miles away from Rock, since 2013.


Business Objective
  • To help Business evaluate whether to stay with the legacy .net platform and develop eCommerce on it or to explore new frameworks like Magento for the new eCommerce store
  • Create the entire technical architecture blueprint for the Magento implementation
  • Develop the end to end system requirement specifications
  • Design the base wireframes for both web and mobile responsive site
  • Evaluate the feasibility of various add-on features like instagram connect, news feed etc.

Solution

The detailed business report of Magento framework implementation helped Business decide the change of platform from .net to php based Magento. Various components of the consulting assignment:

  • Wireframes of the eCommerce site with Home, Category, Product, Cart and Checkout Pages both for web and mobile.
  • Modular level specifications for components like Social Login, Age Verifier, News Feed, Instagram Integration, Market Segmentation Suite, Reward points, ajax cart, custom newsletters, tracking shipment, secure trading payment gateway

Business Value

Instrumental in helping Business decide to change the eCommerce infrastructure by adopting a more robust and scalable solution on Magento.