Plumbing Supply Now
Plumbing Supply Now is a diverse wholesale distributor of plumbing supplies, heating supplies, pipes, valves, fittings, waterworks, drainage, faucets, fixtures, tools, and other equipment as well.
About Plumbing Supply Now
Plumbing Supply Now is a diverse wholesale distributor of plumbing supplies, heating supplies, pipes, valves, fittings, waterworks, drainage, faucets, fixtures, tools, and other equipment as well. The company has several warehouse locations totaling close to 500,000 square feet of warehouse space. For over 40 years, Plumbing Supply Now has been an important resource to all business professionals within the industry, as well as the “do it yourself” homeowners.
As a premier authorized dealer, Plumbing Supply Now offers more than 50,000 different products from over 200 brands. Plumbing Supply Now prides itself on providing everyday low prices and through our sophisticated distribution centers, we are able to deliver the right product in a timely manner.
Challenges
Plumbing Supply Now is an online e-commerce store powered by Magento that has over 50,000 products or SKUs and integrates with other systems such as CRM, including custom shipping solutions, and other customizations and plugins. The challenges of migrating a customized theme from Magento 1 to Magento 2 were extensive, difficult, and data migration problems were plenty. Magento 1 uses different architectures from Magento 2, and migration is complex. Both platforms have different e-commerce structures, and the complexity of both versions varies widely. Compared to Magento 1, Magento 2 is faster, SEO-friendly, and more user-friendly. Magento 2 uses the most up-to-date PHP which improves the overall speed of the site. This means more orders per hour and faster page load times compared to Magento 1.
As part of the upgrade, Sigma Solve performed integration testing, load testing, performance testing, processing shipping rates, integrating Mailchimp, making changes to order syncing, and addressing all the challenges involved in smooth data and feature migration.
Sigma Solve Approach
The upgrade involved integration testing, load and performance testing, shipping rate calculations, Mailchimp integration, and addressing issues with order syncing and all the challenges with the migration.
Theme migration was not possible and had to be carried out manually. Custom coding had to be adjusted as per Magento 2 structure. Other integrations involved Microsoft Dynamics and a custom shipping solution. The solution involved working with multiple vendors and integrations in Magento and customization as per the client’s requirement.
To improve site performance, we had to clean the database, configure the Varnish cache and Redis cache which helped to improve system performance. We had to configure CDN for faster content delivery.
For shipping, UPS gateway was returning wrong shipping rates for years and the company was losing money on their shipping rate.
Results
- Sigma Solve has proven to be a trusted and reliable partner in the growth and development of intuitive, powerful data migration for Plumbing Supply Now. Sigma Solve transferred data between upgrades to improve the speed of the site, which enhanced page load speed and more additional orders every hour.
- With the latest tools and technologies, Sigma Solve was able to leverage our 15 years of industry experience to make Plumbing Supply Now a more convenient and efficient experience for customers. We developed tailored e-commerce integration solutions to help Plumbing Supply Now migrate to Magento 2 based on analysis and implementation of best practices. Many micro features were added to refine the migration result, as well as seamless data synchronization between the two systems.
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