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)