Classmates.com

Making connections with custom product checkout & subscriptions

Classmates®, a division of PeopleConnect, emerged in the early days of the internet boom as a social networking service a whole nine years before Facebook came on the scene. They needed their Adobe Commerce website to be able to suit their unique business needs.

SERVICES PROVIDED

Technical Scoping
Custom Integrations
Ecommerce Development
Adobe Commerce Development
Run State Post-Launch Support

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Meet Classmates.com

Meet Classmates.com

Classmates, a division of PeopleConnect, emerged in the early days of the internet boom as a social networking service nine years before Facebook came on the scene. They needed an adaptive website for custom transactions to showcase their product offerings.

The Challenge

Classmates needed to upgrade its entire technical stack including its commerce systems — replacing its highly-customized Elastic Path commerce platform with Adobe Commerce and integrating with various proprietary platforms/functionalities within the environment.

We kicked off the project with Bear Group’s team of solution architects, technical project managers, and lead developers writing a blueprint for their new systems. The resulting technical scope doc included a before and after set of diagrams to help identify the key components that would be replaced as well as intersection points with internal systems.

Project Highlights

Custom Integrations

The custom development and integrations of the new Magento 2 storefront were crafted by working closely with the Classmates team throughout the process.

Custom Product Checkout

Using special account features, the customer can easily select a hard or softcover yearbook, among other custom options.

Subscriptions

On the front end, we developed a custom product page to make it easy to choose a subscription tier while matching the look and feel of their website. Within the admin, the member care team can manage orders and subscriptions.

Additional Payment Gateways

We also helped the Classmates team integrate with additional payment gateways such as PayPal, Amazon Pay, and WorldPay.

The Solution

The Solution

Adobe Commerce, a widely-used and highly-customizable ecommerce platform, was a great choice for enterprise-level businesses like Classmates. In addition to its capabilities to support an expansive online storefront, the Adobe Commerce user interface makes handling the complexity of a custom website much easier with a straightforward and intuitive admin panel. We began work on the custom development and integrations with the new Magento 2 storefront, working closely with the Classmates team throughout the process.

When a person registers for a free account, they’re able to connect with former alumni by selecting their school and graduation year in the registration process. If a person is interested in purchasing a yearbook, they’ll select whether they want a hardcover or softcover yearbook on the new Adobe Commerce product page and it pulls in the correct yearbook from the product database.