Organic food Meal Delivery System
Zulu Shack Creative was given the task to create a Meal Delivery System, that would do more than just your run of the mill WordPress solution. Farm to Fork Meals expressed their goal to have a system that will allow admin users to create menus, manage users, create discounts and promote their organic meal delivery in a competitive South Florida market.
Zulu Shack Creative developers enjoyed the tasks given and created an awesome system that checked all the boxes Farm to Fork Meals were after. Users can easily sign up with the site, pick a meal plan, customize plans and add more meals on a week to week basis. Admin Users are able to build meals, meal plans, manage cut off times, run reports, manage user accounts, track issues to name a few. The system proved to be a solid success, with sales continually growing, we are happy to see Farm to Fork Meals grow from strength to strength.
Healthy clean and delicious code.
nopCommerce is a powerful open source .net cart solution that allows users to either use one of their pre-defined templates for their new store or create custom solutions on the framework it provides. Although the Farm to Fork Meals solution was a bit more involved than a normal cart, we knew and were confident we could create custom plugins within the .net and nop framework. This indeed, proved to be the case.
After successfully creating a custom theme for Farm to Fork Meals the next step was to create custom plugins which allowed admin users to set meal plans and schedules and for the normal user to be able to customize their own meal plans. Zulu Shack Creative was able to achieve this with some delicious code in JavaScript, HTML, C#. A fair amount of effort went into building plugins to take care of automating of a lot of the day to day tasks Farm to Fork Meals were doing manually before.
Michael and David, from Farm to Fork Meals, are really awesome fellas by the way, wanted to go live as quickly as possible at the time. We structured the solution in a way where we launched then rolled out improved versions as we went. This is an option for all future clients of ours, sometimes it is good to go live as soon as possible, to start sales and see what your clients are actually after. In this case the product sold it self, the food is delicious and the whole Farm to Fork Meals experience, from ordering, to customer service to the cafe itself, is a great user experience! Should you ever be around the Oakland area you should pop by theĀ cafe for a coffee and some lunch.
Like any good online business you need a good online presence, this involves Social and SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Farm to Fork Meals chose to go in house for their SEO, that being said, Zulu Shack Creative has always been on hand with their solution as a whole and has helped from a Social stand point on Facebook, promoting paid and organic marketing efforts.