Moody Price
eCommerce Growth with Magento 2 Migration + P21 Integration
About Moody Price
Moody Price, having its headquarters in Baton Rouge, LA is one of the largest providers of instrumentation, filtration, measurement & control, and high-pressure products in the United States. Being a manufacturer’s representative, Moody Price distributes nationally recognized brands of instrumentation, heat transfer, analyzer and filtration products to several industries.
Moody Price is able to provide its customers with 24-hour access to technical support and has over $6 million of inventory. Additionally, Moody-Price L.L.C. offers on-site inventory management trailers that can be outfitted to the specific requirements of any turnaround or project, including disaster recovery.
eCommerce Services
- Magento 1 to Magento 2 Migration
- P21 Integration with DCKAP Integrator
- UI and UX Enhancements
- Integration with DCKAP PIM
- Punchout2Go Integration
Challenges Faced
Moody Price was operating on the Magento 1 platform, which Magento has officially announced will reach its end of life (EOL) on June 30, 2020. As a result, the company looked to migrate to Magento 2, with improved UI & UX along with a seamless shopping cart experience.
Also, they were working with two systems, Magento & P21, in silos that put the burden of manual data transfer from one to another, and they wanted to integrate both the applications. eCommerce customizations, the client wanted a comprehensive digital commerce solution that will up their game in 2020.
And when it came to data integration — Customers who made offline orders found it difficult to track the same in the Magento storefront. They were unable to separately process and sync orders. Also, product details and inventory between the two systems (ERP and eCommerce) were not in sync causing inconsistent data across the business processes.
P21 Integration Business Requirements
Moody Price contacted DCKAP Integrator with the goal of solving these pain points and making things easier. After a brief discussion with our solution specialists and eCommerce experts, the company decided to migrate from Magento 1 to Magento 2. They also wanted to integrate their Magento store with Epicor P21 ERP and synchronize data, as per their business requirements.
Design and Development
Our certified Magento developers and designers initiated the design and development stage. We formulated a brand new optimized website with an enhanced user experience to fulfill the expectations of the client. The design stage also involved an intricate process to provide a fully customizable Magento site to meet the ever-evolving necessities of the client and the end-users.
From the technical perspective, our developers assured valid codes that comply with current web standards, improved functionality, and wider accessibility for the customers. Appropriately placed CTA’s, interactive contact forms, and enhanced shopping carts were ensured to create an aesthetically pleasing experience for the website visitors.
Magento 2 Migration
Our Magento team was equipped with a well-prepared backup of the Magento 1 website that included databases, files, and folders. Themes were also re-created to work well with the new Magento 2 store. Elimination of unnecessary files and compatibility checks were performed to create a development environment in order to begin the migration process.
Certified Magento developers from DCKAP successfully migrated all of Moody Price’s website data from Magento 1 to Magento 2 and guaranteed the seamless performance of the site. Our data migration experts also ensured zero data loss and zero downtime throughout the migration process to provide high customization ability, flexibility and achieve business growth.
P21 Integration with DCKAP Integrator
DCKAP Integrator, with the help of its migration experts, helped Moody Price migrate to Magento 2 Community edition as quickly as possible, with a responsive design and a seamless shopping experience. Our integration solution specialists elicited the Magento P21 Integration scenarios the client wanted to be set up with and running using DCKAP Integrator. The following were the business use cases that were made possible for Moody Price using DCKAP Integrator:
- Customer Sync: Epicor P21 to Magento
- Products Sync: Epicor P21 to Magento
- Inventory Sync: Epicor P21 to Magento
- Order Status Sync: Epicor P21 to Magento
- Offline Orders Sync: Epicor P21 to Magento
- Online Orders Sync: Magento to Epicor P21
Along with integrating the above-said use cases, DCKAP enhanced some main functionalities for Moody Price:
- Once after the customer segmentation process, a dynamic pricing solution was introduced to display price values to the P21 customers and quote another price for normal users via scheduled calls.
- Displaying personalized quotes to P21 customers and enabling them to accept or reject the quote. Post accepting the quote, an automated mail will be sent to the admin and the customer for effective communication.
- A customer-friendly solution was introduced to enable customers to upload their tax documents and avail tax exemptions based on their eligibility.
Integration with DCKAP PIM
DCKAP identified the client’s necessity for a product information management solution based on the inventory capacity and implemented a solution to maintain vast product data on their site through DCKAP PIM – a Product Information Management (PIM) storage system, using which you can maintain and manage all your company’s product data, from wherever you are.
The website is now integrated with an advantage in creating and managing the categories for all available products. This solution enables the store owner to import or export the product data from the local storage files with just a single click. This unique solution also has multi-language support and bulk edit options.
Punchout2Go Integration
A website with a seamless shopping experience will create long-lasting relationships with the customers. On the motive to achieve this, our team worked with the requirements from the client end and understood their pain point in handling the product data. A complete analysis was done on their product database and multiple checks were done to arrive at a solution.
An integration solution was introduced for Moody Price to handle products and make the purchasing process more effortless for the customers. Our eCommerce development team provided and implemented Punchout2Go integration which handles products that aren’t in Magento but available in P21.
Conclusion
Moody Price is now equipped with a completely transitioned Magento 2 store and power-packed integrations to delight its customers. The challenges DCKAP faced during this project, including mammoth data migration from Magento 1x to Magento 2x and enabling the integration between Magento 2x with Epicor P21 were intensive. Yet, our strong technical team managed to hurdle through with their expertise.
The company has been benefited by eliminating the pain point of manual data transfer through DCKAP Integrator integration and has opened up a gateway for the best shopping experience for its valuable customers through Punchout2Go Integration.

-- Kendall Ducote