For Simtech Development, the year 2024 has been one of growth, new opportunities and major advancements. We provided a high level of expertise in CS-Cart and Multi-Vendor project development, SEO services and system integration.
Services and Technologies
In 2024, we have emphasized on developing high-performance eCommerce solutions in two major scenarios:
- End-to-end eCommerce solutions for CS-Cart and Multi-Vendor
Utilizing scalable end-to-end feature-rich solutions for CS-Cart and Multi-Vendor projects, we helped companies launch MVPs to test business hypotheses in action.
The out-of-the-box solution is suitable for B2B, B2C, B2B/B2C and B2G businesses and is capable of combining online and offline sales in one ecosystem.
- Custom Development
Development from scratch is more fit for complex projects that are looking for more extensive features on their resources. Our experts conduct a complete analysis of clients’ business ideas, goals and eCommerce market to provide them with the optimal technology stack and tools for the project.
Our Completed Projects
In 2024, we’ve implemented dozens of solutions for clients in a wide range of industries, from eCommerce to manufacturing.
- Website upgrade and PWA launch for a multiproduct marketplace. By conducting a website audit and developing a PWA application, we solved the website performance errors, customer churn and offered the convenience of mobile shopping.
- Branded marketplace for hydraulic equipment dealers. We created a new sales channel for hydraulic equipment manufacturers with geo-targeted stores and a dealer-to-dealer distribution system. We were able to help the client expand geographically, improve customer service, and increase sales.
- An online store for a global coffee brand. We launched a commercial resource with localization in three languages and a single database for online and offline sales. This enabled the client to quadruple its customer base.
- Architecture Design for a B2B2C marketplace for beauty products. Our team conducted a business analysis of the customer’s idea. Then we developed a website architecture that reflected the future structure of the site, its functional content, and the necessary modifications and integrations.
Useful Posts
Throughout the year, we’ve posted articles and case studies to help entrepreneurs gain a deeper understanding of the ins and outs of building marketplaces and online stores:
- How to Sell Jewelry Online in eCommerce Stores and Marketplaces
- Case Study: Gemsquar Precious Jewelry Company
- Choosing the Right eCommerce Backend for Your Project
- Laravel vs Symfony: Choosing the Best PHP Framework
- Understanding Discovery Sessions: A Comprehensive Guide
- Multi-Store eCommerce: What, Why and How It Will Help Your Business
Solving Retail Business Scaling Problems
Our second point of focus in 2024 was to explore and provide opportunities to expand retail business.
As part of this initiative, we conducted a large survey with 50 participants. Business owners, executives and key specialists shared their views related to expansion issues, process and challenges.
Notably, the bottlenecks voiced by the companies appeared to be similar across different business sectors:
- An abundance of bureaucracy
- Complex pricing mechanics
- Lengthy dealer training
- Lack of end-to-end analytics
Taking this into account, we have prepared an extensive guide to scaling a retail business. We explained how a custom IT solution can eliminate bottlenecks in dealers’ work, as well as simplify communication with business partners through automation. Also we shared our case of creating a B2C-marketplace to enter into a new market for one of our clients and how CS-Cart helped with that.
Providing Laravel Development Services
When it comes to business scaling, Laravel greatly increases time-to-market and allows for the development of complex solutions for working with a large number of suppliers, dealers, and roles within the system.
Focused on maintaining high load projects, Laravel perfectly meets the needs of B2C and B2B businesses that work with large numbers of SKUs and data.
In one of our cases this year, we created an application with microservices structure interacted through a single API. The main goal was to increase the conversion rate of the marketplace with blocks of product recommendations.
Laravel was used as the backend and React and JS as the frontend. We developed a sales channel with a convenient administration panel that works with several channels at once: setting up vendor plans, content management, customer roles, queue management to handle high loads without interrupting business processes. We also implemented the Amplitude micro-analytics service to track customer actions in the marketplace.
The application was launched in just 12 months by a project team of 10 people, which is an amazing result.
The Laravel framework is designed for creating complex applications and websites. It streamlines the development process, including simplified authentication, routing, session management, caching, application architecture, and database operations. It also enables developers to significantly reduce the time required for implementing MVPs and launching projects. This is why we chose the Laravel framework as one of the key technologies for building enterprise applications for our clients.
Andrey Myagkov, CTO of Simtech Development
Future Plans
Simtech Development has ambitious plans for the future. There are new products, technologies and projects on the horizon that will help your businesses become even more efficient.
Feedback from our CS-Cart partners best emphasizes the importance of our work not only in the outgoing, but also in the next years:
Simtech Development has been our reliable partner for many years. Using CS-Cart technologies, the company provides comprehensive custom development, upgrade and replatforming services. Developers take a responsible approach in implementing all the clients’ requests, helping to scale and realize the most ambitious business goals.
Anastasiya Lyakhova, Product Manager of CS-Cart
Of course, meeting the business needs of our customers will always be our primary goal. That’s why we are also happy to receive feedback on our work directly from our clients.
We hired the services of Simtech Development for our CS-Cart Multi-Vendor project. Although we found it a bit expensive at the beginning, the final work and the workflow and communication is supreme, so it’s recommended.
Sergio Gómez Gutiérrez, General Director at FOOTCARDS EUROPE S.L.
Simtech Development is a company that has integrated a new design on our website, created by our designers. The result is exactly as planned, Simtech’s professional team was transparent, reliable, responsive, flexible and fast in their work, for which we are immensely grateful.
Doctor of Philosophy, PhD at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences
Thank you for choosing Simtech Development! We wish your business prosperity, success and well-being in the New Year 2025!