Work

Musical Money

e-Commerce - Web Development

Musical Money, based in Newhaven, East Sussex, offers a wide variety of musical instruments, accessories, equipment and much more at highly discounted rates.

Nearly everything they sell on their website is pre-owned and, as such, represents huge savings on the "Brand New" High St retail price. For many years, they have been making musicians' lives easier by facilitating the buying and selling of musical equipment.

Background

Musical Money, an existing client, approached our team at Pandora needing a new modern website that would significantly improve their business sales. The old website was outdated, getting quite slow and failed to attract visitors. With the client in mind, we created a new user friendly and unique website.

The Musical Money website was split into two large sections; the Quote section and the e-Commerce section.

The Quote section was where customers interested in selling a musical instrument would go. Initially, the customer had to fill out a form about the instrument in question; they would then receive a quote and arrange to send the instrument.

The eCommerce section was for customers who were interested in purchasing mostly second hand musical instruments. Musical Money offers a wide variety of musical instruments, accessories, equipment and much more at highly discounted rates.

The Website

We began our collaboration with Musical Money, by exploring different concepts for the final product and strategies. Both sections of the website were overhauled and improvements were made in many areas such as the back office of the Quote section, for which we developed a custom CMS, and in the e-Commerce section the introduction of the Prestashop platform.

From a technical aspect, we made certain that the website performance and speed was at the highest level so that customers submitting their musical instrument information did so without delay and purchased goods fast. We made sure we used all necessary measures for secure purchases such us the installation of secure protocol and encryption. We configured and maintained a dedicated cloud server with scaling capability to ensure stability during traffic surges expected throughout the season.

Pandora delivered an industry-leading design of musical instrument submission, on time and on budget, thus adding substantial value to Musical Money.

The website was tested for accessibility using all devices (mobiles, tablets, desktops), in order to be fully responsive and user friendly.