We build it one of three ways. Some systems are written from scratch. Some run on designEdit, our own framework, to save time and cost. Others pair a custom front end with designEdit behind it. We host on AWS or wherever you need it, and support what we build after launch.
Six projects
One is an offer platform for a major loyalty program, built from scratch on AWS. Four run on designEdit, which now has over 1,500 installations: hotel packages and ticketing, a dealer ad builder, catering delivery and a record pool for DJs. The sixth is Tessitura TNEW, customized for three theatres, with designEdit holding the map settings at Mirvish. Each page says what was built, how it runs and who else was on the project.
Major loyalty program · Offer portal
Partners prepare offers from a library of layouts, the program's team approves them, and campaigns with targeted versions go out through Salesforce Marketing Cloud. Scoping and planning by a marketing agency; all programming and AWS by us, including a tool the agency's developers use to add layouts themselves, and we still support it.
Caribana Toronto and D'Bandit · Hotel packages and ticketing
Caribana Toronto's hotel packages with the events included, booked as a group and paid together or separately, and a ticketing platform where promoters sell on D'Bandit, Toronto Lime and other branded sites, online and through retail outlets. Half of Caribana Toronto's sales come in the last two weeks before the event.
Rogers · Dealer ad builder
Marketing Central: Rogers dealers fill in a template step by step, typing straight into the ad, and download a PDF and images for print and the web. Administrators set up each template in designEdit, and we built the PDF output with open-source tools. Still in use.
Elle Cuisine · Food ordering and delivery
A Toronto caterer's delivery menus, booked online: dishes, packages and kits in one cart, delivery or pickup in time windows with their own limits, and delivery priced by driving distance from the kitchen. Staff run the schedule, packing sheets and quote links in designEdit.
Caribbean Music Pool · Members' portal
A record pool for DJs and other music professionals: more than 100,000 tracks of soca, reggae and other Caribbean music to search, preview and download. It works like an app, so the player keeps playing from page to page, and memberships stay in step with PayPal payments. Built on designEdit, and we still support it.
Mirvish, Drayton Entertainment and Proctors · Tessitura TNEW
Seat maps drawn in our own builder to look like the room, a view from the seat, availability labels on the calendar, and Tessitura's data on the theatre's own website. The maps load from a CDN, and TNEW still handles every sale.
Other work
Where a design firm designed the site, we did the programming, the designEdit connection and the hosting. Agency and design credits are on the case studies that have them.
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