Gifts Less Ordinary (GLO) is a global marketplace passionate about bringing together the best unique and personalised gifts from the most creative small businesses around the globe.
Launched in October 2015 in Singapore, Gifts Less Ordinary has grown to be the online destination for discerning customers looking for originality and the ultimate gifting experience.
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The platform currently supports 200+ creative businesses (partners) with an inventory of 9000+ products. Some 75% of the gifts can be personalised, making the product offering truly unique.
GLO launched on a custom-built Magento platform, with a US$200,000 initial investment, an additional $20,000 p/a technological enhancements and a monthly agency fee of US$2750.
The platform lasted 2.5 years before the lack of functionalities and long re-indexing times forced the team to find a new platform to handle their cross-border growth.
To find the right technology provider to provide a multi-storefront solution superior to GLO’s custom build platform, that met the following objectives:
To identify a comprehensive marketplace technology solution and partner with a dedicated, skilled team to cost-effectively migrate 1000s of products from more than 200 partners onto a highly flexible, dynamic platform which would maintain high levels of product personalisation functionality – all with minimal disruption to GLO’s business during the transition.
Techsembly’s Enterprise Solution provides GLO with not only a highly customisable and flexible marketplace solution that met the company’s requirements, but which also exceeded expectations regarding technical speed, specifications and ease of implementation.