Today I want to tell you about how much of an out of the box thinking team objectsource are!
One of our clients came to me and said “so, I need a website where people can sign up to run a sponsored running race, but here’s the thing, I want to use Magento, I need the people that sign up to be presented on the site and be able to join a team”!!
I never like to say no to challenge, but I will if I think we would be trying to make a ‘square peg fit into a round hole’, as no matter how you do it, the website will just keep breaking at the seams. This felt like a ‘square peg’, but something deep down told me it wasn’t. So, I went back to my team and gave them the challenge! Initially they agreed with me because we just thought that putting the signed runner at the forefront of the website and all the additional information we would need to gather just would not work!! That is just not how Magento works, or was it…
We started to think again and the more we did the more we realised that Magento was in fact a perfect fit. We had just not been made to think this way before. At the end of the day this was just a Magento virtual product with an adaptation of how people bought it! “Hey, practice what you preach Rebecca, Magento is for the owner that wants to customise a shopping experience. Are you good at what you do or not”?!
I cannot tell you how delighted I was with what my guys did and within budget. This was by no means a ‘square peg in a round hole’, it was a totally perfect fit. Want to see what I am talking about, take a look at the Spotlight Runners website.
So, that is how you can use Magento for more than just the classic online shop.
