Multilingual Magento Webstore to Buy and Manage Wi-Fi Subscriptions

Summary

A global Wi-Fi subscription service needed a website where end customers could learn about its offerings and buy and manage subscriptions. INNERLUXES built a multilingual Magento webstore in two months — with a tariff-network product catalog, secure account management, PayPal payments, progressive and first-purchase discounts, and integration with the company's Java back end and MySQL database.

About the Client

The Client is an online service company offering subscriptions to registered Wi-Fi hotspots in more than a million locations worldwide. It brings together end customers looking for secure, affordable, and fast internet access with businesses that want their sites featured on the location map to attract more clients.

The Challenge

The Client needed a website that would be a transaction point where its end customers could learn about the company and its offerings and buy and manage their subscriptions. Users can purchase Wi-Fi access rights to a range of locations they frequent — including railway stations and airports, where free, overloaded public hubs may lack speed and connection quality. The website also had to boost sales through a system of progressive and targeted discounts.

The Solution

INNERLUXES offered Magento development services to fulfill the task. The team made the most of the feature-rich standard package and, after configuration, deployed a ready-to-go website showcasing different subscription types and the available tariff network in the product catalog.

To complete a purchase or navigate already-acquired subscriptions, users create an account on the website. The registration procedure is simple yet secure, and payments are made via PayPal.

The website was largely customized according to the Client's design mockups, with versions in different languages created for the international target audience. Magento's ability to incentivize desired shopper behavior took the shape of progressive discounts that track and analyze previous purchases, plus a special discount on the first purchase.

Once the platform's front end was developed, INNERLUXES did a considerable amount of integration with the other parts of the solution — mainly ensuring reliable interaction of the front end with the back-end Java application and MySQL database — and implemented the required PayPal integration for easy, secure payments.

The Results

• Through the work of one senior PHP developer, the project was finished in two months.
• The Client received a fully functional multilingual website meeting the requirements.
• End users gained an intuitive, clickable interface and full control over their Wi-Fi subscriptions.

Technologies and Tools

Magento Community Edition, PHP, MySQL.