Smerby
Smerby is a network marketing company that has bundled several online services for one low monthly price and login.
Smerby needed to build a user-centric site that, through the use of various APIs, allowed users to access over 13 different services with one login. Smerby also required a web management tool that allowed them to manage customers, API & system settings, marketing tours and banners, site statistics and communications.
API service integrations
We integrated various API’s from several online services such as Spamarrest, AVG, Gotomeeting, Gotomypc, Identity Secure, TrustFax, MyPhotoAlbum and more. Each API was a different challenge and required a different technology and methodology, including cURL, REST, SOAP and XML, to name a few. All service integrations were built with one requirement – that users could click a login button and be taken to the service’s site in an iframe or new window and be logged in as a user without having to input their login username and password.
User online marketing tours, banners and statistic tracking
Smerby is a network marketing company, which means they allow their users an income opportunity by reselling their services to other potential users. To that end, we had to develop an online business center with a lead management system, site tracking stats and personalized sales and marketing tools. Users could send marketing emails with their choice of pre-built message template to users with links back to their personalized tour sites. All site visits were tracked by custom user id and displayed as site visitor statistics back to the user.
Full web management system
Smerby is a complete online web solution and as such required a full web management center that controls account and service access, customer profiles, billing, site statistics, reporting, online marketing, system and api settings, and system-wide messaging.