Dotsquares has been delivering exceptional web and app solutions for international clients since 2002.
Business Description
Hyjo is a hydroponics company that offers a wide range of products including equipment for indoor horticulture, plant media, nutrients, additives, lights and UK hydroponic systems all falling into this sector of the industry, Britain’s leading specialised garden centre. Our approach is to provide customers with the necessary advice and tools to maximise results, eliminate risks for UK indoor growing and to address the grower’s interests. Our experience provides invaluable solutions to problems encountered by beginners to experts alike. Based in London, Hyjo selects and fanatically explores hydroponic grow kits, hydroponic grow tents, hydroponic grow systems, hydroponic growing mediums and much more. With an eye on NFTs, Flood & Drains, IWSs, Aquaponics, Deep Water Culture, Aeroponics, Aqua Tray Drip Irrigations and AutoPots we’re fuelled with excitement to push new boundaries. High quality hydroponics for growers, hybrid systems for extreme enthusiasts and a wide selection of equipment from propagation, to growing, flowering and harvest. Since launching, Hyjo has been banging the drum for a wide range in hydroponics for indoor growing. It’s about rediscovering the customer's stance with every last speck of fulfilment and this keeps us brimming with optimism for the path ahead.
What was the scope of the project involved?
The scope of the project was an upgrade of our Magento 1.x platform to Magento 2.x. The upgrade optimised the functionalities for visibly better performance, but it also modernised the entire platform with improved and contemporary security measures. It required a lot of effort than simply running a predesigned script configured to a custom solution. A proper strategy was crucial for our successful upgrade that defined the entire process. It took a substantial amount of work to understand its structure, data points, dependencies and et cetera. After that, we upgraded effectively. When we finalised the upgrade plan and strategy, other certain factors determined the actual time-consumption like the complexity of our online store, our data and the number of customisations. In addition, a new upgraded Magento theme was completed in which the developers integrated third-party modules as well as other add-ons. Not to mention, the tasks involved in the migration of the platform. The updated platform of Magento 2.x has quite a distinct architecture. Therefore, the migration involved a handful of tasks such as; • Creation of a clone of the original Magento 1.X store. • Installing Magento 2.X. • Installation of the corresponding Magento 2 extensions that were used in the existing platform. • Migration of data from the cloned platform to the new Magento 2.X platform. • Implementing the corresponding Magento 2.X theme. • Creating the corresponding extensions that were not available in the updated version. • Completing the store configurations. • Implementation of all the third-party API modules. • Post-deployment testing. • Going Live with the new platform. Upgrading our Magento store from version 1.x to 2.x was quite beneficial. However, the process involved was quite complicated and time-consuming. We had to re-purchase some of our extensions and invest in creative solutions to ones that were not available in the newer version. A lot of time and cost was involved but the end result was definitely worthwhile.
How did Dotsquares meet your requirements?
Simply put, completely, from A till Z.
What do you value about Dotsquares?
That they are professional, demonstrate conviction, are competent and provide high-quality services.
- Anthony B.
Business Description
My Community Radio Portal Directory covering locel based community radio stations and larger commercial platform stations also public broadcasting service throughout the world. The portal directory is different then the rest as it's designed to be intuative. It always the user to listen to live streaming from all types of music styles, it also always video content as well.
What was the scope of the project involved?
The scope of the progect involved was set around building a intuative style web directory for radio, alwaying live stream from each individual radio station listed onto the radio directory platform.
How did Dotsquares meet your requirements?
There are many challenges with the website development and the type of script which was introduced, most of the script which has been used has been modifield to my own requirements as there required many changes along the way. The speed and performance is excellent and communication without doubt first class.
What do you value about Dotsquares?
What do i value about dotaquare, I have been a client with dotsquares for around 10 Months and at the start of the project there was many challenges with it, Arnav the developer and the team have understood along the way what was need, It hasn't been a easy project and that all the challenges which have been placed have been overcome at various intervals, The performance has been excellent, time scale delivering excellent, and completion on time every time to be honest Arnav and the team and Vikas the SEO consultant have delivered a project with excellent satisfaction. When every I contact whether its a small issue it is always dealt without and fuss. The communication is always excellent and I have the confidence that when i do make contact, I will be dealt with speed and passion. Its a plesure dealing with Arnav and Vikas and the team. As for the future i am more then happy on carrying on and hope that Arnav and Vikas are as well.
- Graham Blaydon
Business Description
Private Sale Portal. Home owners can sell or rent their properties themselves, so negating the contractual obligations and costs associated with the Estate Agents in the UK.
What was the scope of the project involved?
Full website development and design, from initial concept to designing and implementing the data structure so novice users would have the ability to create user account and upload their property details and communicate with potential buyers.
How did Dotsquares meet your requirements?
10 out of 10, my project manager Nikhil has been invaluable to the project, his knowledge, work ethos and ability have proven invaluable to the progress and the implementation of the tasks throughout the first phase of the development. I look forward to working with Nikhil on the next phase of development.
What do you value about Dotsquares?
I have a direct line of communication with Nikhil via Skype and the time difference is also an advantage, the majority of the days work is uploaded at midday (GMT) and reviewed and any amendments are made later the same day or added to the working document for the following day. The negotiation of price and time allocated before scheduling work is tiresome and is also time consuming for both myself and Dotsquares, i understand as a company you need to focus on the time / cost and return on investment but i do get the feeling there is a senior level of management pushing project managers to collate more hours on individual projects that have not started. With any business you only generate revenue when you are working and not when you are negotiating. All IT project overrun and there are always improvements and alterations made from the original working document which clients except and are more than happy to pay whilst the development continues.
- Paul Telford
Business Description
Creat an App for motorcycle riders
What was the scope of the project involved?
Deliver screens of what the App will look like
How did Dotsquares meet your requirements?
Great communication and kept me up to date and chose screens that look great and are perfect for my App. Very happy with the progress, thank you to everyone on the team.
What do you value about Dotsquares?
Great communication and very helpful. Good work quality.
- Ash Holzheimer
Business Description
Creat an App for motorcycle riders
What was the scope of the project involved?
Deliver screens of what the App will look like
How did Dotsquares meet your requirements?
Great communication and kept me up to date and chose screens that look great and are perfect for my App. Very happy with the progress, thank you to everyone on the team.
What do you value about Dotsquares?
Great communication and very helpful. Good work quality.
- Ash Holzheimer