Dormbuys.com is an online retailer of college dorm products. The company’s
website was taken from an off-the-shelf shopping cart software to a full
e-commerce and business automation system. The entire application was
built using Ruby On Rails. Features include:
- Ability to calculate real shipping costs prior to checkout
- Complex discount system (coupons, gift cards, product quantity discounts, etc.)
- Custom Content Management System for managing products
- Inventory management
- Warehouse management module (manages order fulfillment process,
sends tracking information to customer, prints shipping labels and packing lists)
- Real-time box packing algorithm (determines how items in a customer order will best
fit in shipping boxes, calculates the real cost to ship the order,
interfaces with FedEx systems)