The Alliance Displays, Inc web development project is a forever changing e-commerce system that keeps getting better with time. The Alliance Displays web site now sells more than 1000 products. This website is a great example of modular programming. In the last several years there have been many functional upgrades. Each upgrade was completed at a minimal cost, due to the systems extreme flexibility.

Company Overview:

Alliance Displays, Inc is a company that supplies a huge selection of Slatwall, Gridwall and Slatgrid Panels available for SAME DAY SHIPPING. Standard and Custom Manufactured Acrylics. All types of both Standard and/or Custom Designed Acrylics at incredibly low prices. Wire Baskets - Any Size. Shelving bullnose shelving and standard 3/4 shelving. Any size custom design also available.

Problems:

• Alliance Displays was looking for an affordable way to take their products to market and to offer them in a very unique E-Commerce setting.
• Alliance Displays needed a simple, yet powerful way to mange real-time product inventory while selling over the Internet, so online customers were viewing actual availability.
• The client needed to track usage and needed the ability to mange customer invoicing and order tracking.
• The client needed a simple way to manage their online E-Commerce system without knowing online technologies.

Technologies:

• This web application uses a MySQL database back-end.
• The entire eCommerce system is written in Object Oriented Perl.
• This web application uses XML tags and templates for custom data placement.
• This site also integrates with a credit card processing company.

Solutions:

• Using the technologies above, IADesign, LLC developed a very advanced E-Commerce system that integrates with the inventory management system to offer real-time product availability and easy customer tracking.