Three websites, a client area and a freight accounting system
A storefront, a shipping calculator, a client area and the system that carries a shipment from order to invoice. Usually different teams build these. Here I worked on every part.
Context
The company ships parcels from the USA to more than thirty countries, forwards purchases from American stores and runs a corporate line of business. Three audiences, three websites, one system behind them that the sites take tariffs, statuses and requests from.
The job of the storefront: a manager should assemble any page without a developer. The job of the interactive part: the calculator and the tracking should work from real tariffs, right on the page.
What was built — the storefront
A page builder. Thirty-four ready blocks: hero, tariffs, customs rules, delivery methods, ordering steps, partners, news, forms. A manager assembles any page from them and no developer is needed. Block settings are stored alongside the code, so any change can be rolled back. There is a separate staging copy of the site where a page can be checked before it goes live.
Country pages. More than thirty pages, each with its own address, its own catalogue, its own destinations and delivery terms. Not a translation of one page, but a separate storefront per country. Plus a blog with categories.
Ten form scenarios. Contact, vacancies with a CV and several steps, partnership separately for companies and for individuals, requests for air freight, warehousing and humanitarian cargo, a pickup request, webinar registration. Each has its own validation and its own thank-you.
A catalogue. More than a thousand products, categories, a store directory, a button that copies the American address.
News. Company posts from LinkedIn are pulled into the news section automatically.
What was built — the interactive part
Two separate applications embedded into the pages. They take their data from the accounting system, so they calculate from real tariffs rather than from a table somebody updated last year.
Shipping calculator. Calculation by country, city, postcode, weight and dimensions. Scenarios for individuals and for person-to-person shipments, comparison of delivery methods, address suggestions, long lists that do not slow down.
Parcel tracking. By number, with the history of statuses.
Both applications live apart from the websites and are released on their own schedule, but they look like part of the page and take the language and currency from it.