Animates

Animates required a custom headless Starshipit integration for the Same-Day-Delivery delivery method to support in-store staff fulfilling all orders with the Adobe Commerce Orders portal.

Overdose. created a custom integration that supported shipping label printing via Starshipit and via NZ Post eParcel to be configurable to Animates' flexible requirements. All of this was configured so that each store had its own visibility of orders and prioritisation of the Same-Day-Delivery orders for fulfilment and dispatch in both Adobe Commerce and Starshipit platforms. All orders' addresses are validated against NZ Post and Google Maps to ensure that the address is supported by the courier network for Same-Day-Delivery as well as Home Delivery orders.

To minimise any potential issues, Animates and Overdose. used our learnings from the Commerce Cloud migration earlier in 2022 with detailed testing and testing strategy, constant communication between the teams and a round-the-clock team of developers during UAT and post-launch to support development.

Animates wanted to leverage the brand-new Adobe Live Search functionality as part of Adobe Commerce Cloud.

As one of the first implementations of Adobe Live Search in the world, Overdose. had senior developers tackling this new feature and migrating functionality from customised Elasticsearch-powered search to the modern feature set. In addition, customisation was required to support products, categories, video and written blog articles, content pages, and stores to be searched directly in the search bar.

This project was given to Overdose. with functionality and a foundation already implemented, We initially had to review and understand how the project had been set up to ensure that the site was brought up to the latest version smoothly on the new Adobe Commerce platform.

Overdose., Animates and their integration partners had to work together to deeply understand the codebase and its customisations to ensure that all tables, scheduled tasks, and extensions were reviewed and modified to ensure that the new platform performed optimally with a refreshed solution and only develop where required.

The project teams for both Overdose. and Animates spent a good portion of the delivery timeline spending time testing thoroughly in all aspects with thousands of test cases completed as part of UAT, testing strategy governance, detailed deployment plan agreed upon with all parties, and an all-hands-on-deck approach from senior resources for a 24-hour launch window with around-the-clock support and regular late night and early morning checkpoints throughout the launch.