Industry

E-Commerce & Marketplaces

E-commerce platforms and marketplace portals that integrate with existing processes and systems. Our e-commerce experience goes back to around 2008, from a full online shop to the buying portal we built for refurbed.

What e-commerce asks of software

Shop and product as one system

Around 2008, Philipp Schmid and Manuel Bogner built a complete online shop integrated into software for managing virtual machines, at a time when virtual machines were far from mainstream. The shop was part of the product, not a separate system next to it.

Portals that follow the marketplace's process

For refurbed we built a product buying portal. Marketplaces run on processes of their own, and the portals around them have to follow those processes rather than a standard shop template.

Experiments and pilots

refurbed works with us on experiments and pilots. In e-commerce, ideas are tried with real customers before they are rolled out, so the software behind them has to be delivered quickly, without compromising quality or reliability.

Experience from inside e-commerce

Manuel Bogner, our CTO, spent many years working in e-commerce. That is where our understanding of how shops and marketplaces run from day to day comes from.

Technology and domain knowledge

Domain topics from this work.

  • Online shops
  • Shop systems
  • Marketplaces
  • Product buying portals
  • Experiments and pilots
  • Back-office integration
  • Virtual machine management

What we build for e-commerce

Shops and portals built around your processes and the systems you already run.

  • Shop fronts and web applications

    Web applications for browsing, buying and managing an account, fast and accessible on every device.

  • Marketplace and buying portals

    Portals built around a marketplace's own process, like the product buying portal we built for refurbed.

  • Integration behind the shop

    Connections to ERP, stock, payment and fulfilment systems, so orders move on without manual steps.

  • Buying journeys tested with users

    Checkout and buying flows researched and tested with real users before they go live.

  • Platforms for peak traffic

    Cloud platforms that absorb campaigns and seasonal peaks, operated by the team that built them.

  • Fast pages as the catalogue grows

    Load times kept low as products, traffic and features are added.

We are very pleased to work with OR in the implementation of experiments and pilots. I would especially like to emphasize how quickly and thoroughly the entire team works.
Peter Windischhofer Co-Founder, refurbed

Tell us about your shop

Which systems sit behind it, and where do orders or processes still need manual steps? You will hear back from the engineer who would work on it.