Delivery Circle - 26 February 2025

Product Development Process
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Work in progress

@chahmedejaz

  • I fixed the issue where we were not able to load images in the local environment.
  • Now focusing on adding shipment state in the OC total report

@dcook

  • DFC product sync almost ready.
  • Move images out of webpacker failed to start with, needs more time.
  • Speeding up admin dashboard works really well and we can’t wait for it to be merged. There were just a few open questions.
  • Next up: Flower Farms issues. They are in the Dev Ready column.

@filipefurtado

  • It would be good to connect au-staging to the DFC (allow in Keycloak).
  • Busy with manual testing.
  • Wrote up a post on staging data improvements. Maikel gave estimates. This can be taken to the product circle after this meeting.

@maikel

  • New DFC import stock logic may have failed some backorders.
  • Garethe and Maikel need to catch up but times have not been aligning.
  • Merged small DFC work without testing.
  • Starting to think about placing orders on OFN via DFC.

Topics

Genevieve presented results from user surveys and data analysis. A common theme for paying enterprises is to improve the customer experience and connect to marketing tools.

Presented three scenarios:

  • Offer a simple Wordpress integration where enterprises have their own website and products are still managed in OFN.
  • Offer a complex integration with Shopify.
  • Offer more custom branding within OFN, maybe a selection of front-end themes.

We discussed benefits of different solutions. Some key outcomes were:

  • A complex integration with Shopify is probably too expensive and doesn’t benefit single enterprises.
  • A Shopify integration could become an option when sourcing products from several OFN catalogs and selling them in one shopfront. The current FDC work may enable that via the DFC API.
  • Wordpress can serve as custom branded website and we could offer hosting. A good example is CERES Fair Food which has a Wordpress website with own content like recipes. Customers are then linked to the shop app to select products, check out and manage orders.
  • There are opportunities to improve the customer experience on OFN for everyone. Dedicated product pages are on the whishlist and would enable to share products on social media.
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