During 2010 I worked with Hot Mustard Media to update Planet X Bikes’ systems and website.
We took a holistic approach: after a month of interviews and testing of various ERP systems, we selected Khaos Control to replace Actinic and a spreadsheet as their original management system. Khaos Control provides all their stock and warehouse management, accounts and purchasing in a single place. Through software that I wrote, it was also possible to maintain all products for sale from directly within Khaos Control.
Khaos Control has a SOAP-based API that allows the e-commerce website real-time stock and order management.
The result
Since implementation, Planet X went through remarkable growth in terms of sales and website visitors. Matt Kerwick at Hot Mustard Media planned and executed a strategy that helped Planet X climb Google rankings through smart SEO work. The Khaos Control integration was rolled out in a three-month timeframe from the first meeting to going live.
Since the launch of the new website, Planet X almost doubled its annual turnover and we saw a quadrupling of internet traffic.
What we built
Our integration with Khaos Control is fully featured — it allows e-commerce websites to be connected to all core features of Khaos Control with ease, so the whole business benefits from a single place to manage customers, orders and stock.
We also created an advanced bike builder within Khaos Control that allows Planet X to create various bike configurations, enabling customers to customise the specification and have their custom bike built in the Planet X factory.
The final solution takes all the work we put into the Planet X website and condenses it into a simple, turnkey e-commerce platform built around Khaos Control.