The business requirement
SmartConsign needed ecommerce connectors that moved orders from online stores into shipping management and returned labels and tracking information to the originating platform.
Development and integration
Impact developed integrations for Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento 2 and BigCommerce. Webhooks and scheduled catch-up processing supported order collection, shipping bookings, cancellations and delivery updates, using C#/.NET, REST interfaces and SQL-backed processing.
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Original project detail
API Integration for Multi-Shipping Management System
SmartConsign shipping software is a platform the allows clients (Operaters) to connect their customers (Shippers) with Carriers (Yodel, DX, DHL, etc).
The connectors developed by Impact talk to a variety of ecommerce stores so that orders can be shipped using SmartConsign. The integration provides the booking of the shipping agent, publishing of tracking informtion back to the store, the ability to download shipping labels or have shipping labels sent back to the store. The system can also handle cancellations. Due to the level of integrations the customer can pick from a variety of couriers and services, to match delivery expectations.
The connectors are called via a webhook to collect the order and then post it to SmartConsign, with a scheduled job running the connector every 5 minutes to mop up any orders that might be missed by the webhook from ecommerce stores, due to traffic, internet issues, etc.
Technology Stack:
- ASP.NET Core 3.1 / .NET 5
- C#
- REST API – HttpClient
- SQL
Deployment is fully automated through Azure DevOps Pipelines, going via respositories and onto AWS services.
Currently SmartConsign has 25+ carriers and API developments to Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento 2 and BigCommerce, with new connectors being developed by Impact all the time.
