caseStudy
Acquire

Reinventing the online shopping experience with a real-time analytics platform

Acquire, a young California-based startup located in San Francisco, specializes in e-commerce. The company aimed to revolutionize the digital shopping experience. Amid the pandemic and global uncertainty, Acquire faced a major challenge: designing a real-time analytics platform fully compatible with Shopify to provide retailers with a unified, seamless, and high-performance shopping experience.

Kumojin supported Acquire in co-developing a tailor-made solution that met their ambition to simplify and unify the online shopping experience. By combining technical expertise and design sensibility, our teams created three high-performing applications fully integrated with Shopify and major e-commerce platforms. The result: a robust and intuitive MVP capable of delivering real-time customer journey analytics and a seamless shopping experience, from the ad click to checkout. Through this international collaboration, Acquire accelerated its digital transformation and provided retailers with a modern, reliable, and highly customizable solution, redefining e-commerce standards.

Location: San Francisco, USA
Industry: E-commerce
Number of employees: 11-50 employees

Vuejs

Vuetify

Nodejs

Nestjs

Graphql

Kubernetes

AWS

Elasticsearch

CircleCi

Vuejs

Vuetify

Nodejs

Nestjs

Graphql

Kubernetes

AWS

Elasticsearch

CircleCi

Vuejs

Vuetify

Nodejs

Nestjs

Graphql

Kubernetes

AWS

Elasticsearch

CircleCi

Needs

Design and develop a real-time analytics platform fully integrated with Shopify.

Objectives

Unify multiple sales, marketing, social commerce, and e-commerce channels.
Optimize the user journey to deliver a fast, intuitive, and high-performing navigation experience that drives conversion and customer loyalty.

Challenges

Implement a complex design within a tight deadline

Our teams rose to the challenge and created a responsive interface within a limited timeframe.
Ensure full compatibility with Shopify

From front-end to back-end, the code was designed to guarantee perfect and secure compatibility with Shopify and other e-commerce APIs.
Maintain seamless international coordination

Geographical distance and time zone differences between the United States and Canada never hindered the quality of our collaborative work.

In summary

Kumojin team

Duration

3 years

Activities

Front & Back-End design and development – Software architecture – UX/UI design – Shopify API integration – Real-time analytics platform development – User journey optimization – Performance testing and validation – MVP deployment

Solution

To meet Acquire’s ambitions, we co-developed a complete MVP composed of three complementary applications designed to provide retailers with a seamless and consistent shopping experience.

The first, an admin-type application, centralizes the complete management of storefronts. It facilitates access to key statistics (sales, popular products, monthly performance), the creation or modification of storefronts, parameter adjustments, and the integration of tools such as Shopify, Klaviyo, and a media library connected to Pexels.

The second, a checkout application, manages the entire transactional process, from an empty cart to purchase confirmation. Connected to Shopify, it streamlines customer information entry, promotion and delivery management, and product selection for a smooth and efficient checkout experience.

Finally, the third application, an intuitive site builder, simplifies the creation of personalized storefronts by allowing users to add, move, or delete content blocks (text, image, video, link, etc.), while also enabling them to save and reuse templates.

Together, these solutions form a complete ecosystem compatible with the main e-commerce APIs. The user experience is responsive, high-performing, and consistent across all devices.

The result: a modern, scalable, and user-centered platform that redefines the fluidity of e-commerce.

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Testimonies

The ownership and energy of the Kumojin team are undeniably a major asset for us. Their expertise, combined with ours, enabled the delivery of a high-quality MVP. That’s the key to launching the right product at the right time.

Our team was able to implement, in a short amount of time, a highly complex, responsive design built with pixel-perfect precision. This level of service is essential to the success of this project.

The technical challenges are numerous, and the complexity of the application is undeniable, but that’s also what makes the project so interesting and stimulating, as both the environment and the solution are truly unique.

By collaborating on this project, I had the opportunity to be fully involved in the co-creation of the product alongside the Acquire team. This integration helped me deeply understand their needs and provide concrete, tailored solutions to the technical and functional challenges we encountered throughout the project. It was a true opportunity to apply a collaborative, problem-solving approach where every technical decision aimed to maximize value for the client.