About Black Cat Music
Black Cat Music represents Wenger Corporation in the UK and Ireland. Wenger is the largest manufacturer of fully guaranteed staging and music performance equipment in the world. The business supplies both Wenger’s range as well as its own speciality equipment, acoustic treatments and sound proofing to schools and colleges, music schools, orchestras, choirs, theatres, recording studios and architects.
The Black Cat Music website was built in Magento but needed to be upgraded to the latest version of Magento 2 to maximise security and ensure the best user experience. The business also wanted to ensure the Purchase Order functionality was enabled for schools.
Partners Used
Technologies Used
We utilized the latest version of Magento for the upgrade, integrating advanced tools and features to enhance functionality and provide a seamless user experience.
Services we offered
We successfully upgraded Black Cat Music’s eCommerce platform from Magento 1 to Magento 2, delivering tailored solutions and ensuring all functionalities were optimised for their specific needs.
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Magento 2 Upgrade:
Migrated the entire online store, including products, categories, customer data, and order history, to Magento 2. This ensured the platform’s security, performance, and scalability were future-proof.
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Multi-Website Setup:
Built a Magento 2 multi-website setup, complete with a paid theme installation and customizations, to support the business’s diverse operational needs.
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Custom Module Development:
Designed and implemented bespoke modules, including:
- Website Switcher: Allows users to easily navigate between the multi-website setup.
- Goldblock Module: A tailored feature developed for Black Cat Music’s specific requirements.
- Purchase Order Module: Enabled purchase order functionality for schools, streamlining their procurement process.
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WordPress Blog Conversion to Magento 2 Blog:
Transferred all existing blog content from WordPress to Magento 2, ensuring seamless integration and consistent branding under the new platform.
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Technical Integration for Black Cat Music
The Magento 2 upgrade included the integration of essential tools, such as the Stripe payment module, and measures to retain SEO equity, ensuring visibility and seamless transactions for Black Cat Music.
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Stripe Payment module integration
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SEO retention
Our Process
We collaborated with Black Cat Music to deliver a well-structured upgrade plan. From data migration to module development, our goal was to retain all existing functionalities while enhancing performance, user experience, and operational efficiency.
Requirements
Black Cat Music came to us for the Magento version upgrade. Their original website was built on Magento 1 and lacked handy features. They wanted to upgrade the eCommerce site to the latest version of the Magento 2 eCommerce platform. Additionally they also wanted to enable Purchase Order functionality for the schools. The company did not want to lose valuable customer data and asked us to retain it to the new version of the eCommerce site.
Solutions
With a chilliapple account manager and a team of Magento specialists, we designed a plan to ensure there was no business interruption. We retained all existing functionality and fully migrated all product and category data and other site content, as well as customer and order data. We ensured the upgraded site was optimised for speed as well as for search engines. SEO equity was retained, and third-party plugins and custom code were upgraded.
Results
We used a mobile responsive design theme to keep the costs down and configured Google Analytics to ensure store view filters. We also delivered all the required changes and enhancements. After launch, we tracked site performance for 60 days and fixed any bugs. Black Cat Music were able to continue to trade without interruption during the upgrade and they have benefited from an improved user experience and journey to purchase which has been hugely important during the COVID-19 global pandemic.
