Affinity is an award-winning provider of technology and digital communication solutions, specialising in software development for today’s needs and tomorrow’s dreams.
Fully responsive mobile-first approach
Built-in bespoke group Store Finder module, with significant investment to assure search engine optimization on 1,000's of stores.
Heavily customised open source community Magento platform
Complex integrations with 3rd party suppliers and fulfillment houses
Robust security strategy for both the platform and the hosting achirecture that met Tesco's stringent requirements
Powerful cloud-based hosting architecture with auto scaling
Editorial and product control at web-shop level
Customer based customizable product feature with real-time 360 degree visualization
Full penetration testing
GDPR future proofing
Custom CMS to enable client to build pages from menu of features and content types
Custom SEO coding
Single page checkout, Click & collect and split delivery options
Sophisticated user based permissions
Strong UX and AI tied to Tesco's very strict DDL (Digital Design Language)
Full reporting suite well above and beyond the out-of-the-box Magento service
Migration of over 75 TB of images (55,000,000 images)
Migration of over 320,000 accounts with club card points and more...
The Timpson Group who run and manage all the photo centres in Tesco stores as well as tescophoto.com, commissioned Affinity to completely re-build www.tescophoto.com using all the knowledge and experience gained from building the Timpson Group sites, Maxphoto and Snappysnaps, on-line personalised photo printing services, using the open source Magento platform.
The project was mission critical with a bag bang launch to a fixed deadline. Our well tried and tested Hybrid Agile process methodology came into play with a very strong focus on a true collaborative approach to the MVP for launch. Our robust risk mitigation strategy and a great relationship between all the teams PM's (we had to interact with many 3rd party services throughout the project) meant we delivered on-time and within budget. There was a significant focus on the theming and CSS across all devices as our Discovery phase revealed that customers were now looking to undertake quite complex personalisation tasks using mobile tech.
We had to integrate the solution with the advanced order tracking dashboard we built to support, https://www.maxphoto.co.uk and https://www.snappysnaps.co.uk, alowing Timpson colleagues to instantly see and manage the order status, line-item by line-item.
Our SEO and SEM strategy meant that there was a minimal drop off from Google. Indeed sales were up on launch day compared to the same day on the previous year! If the success of transferring Maxphoto to Magento and our improved UX and AI is anything to go by we will be reporting some more good news on https://www.tescophoto.com soon.