Clodify project

Progressive, Fast, Secure, Clodify SaaS CRM System!

Intention: Development of progressive, fast, secure, high-performed CRM system from scratch

Technologies used: Ember, SSR, Yii2, Crowd, Jira, Slack and other custom integrations

People Involved: 10 developers

Timeframe: 2 years

History of Clodify SaaS way

Clodify was born in May 2015 as a small internal project for a startup in Ukraine. They were looking for a cheap and useful way to manage their customers. Most of the existing services of that time were either offline, quite complex, oriented on middle and big business sizes, or very expensive. A decision was made to develop CRM system. During 5 years the system was fully transformed from a very little CRM system to a fully-featured online SaaS CRM system. The right tech stack was chosen and since the system grows very fast, it has become modern, and secure in a short period. Nowadays, thousands of customers are using the basic version of Clodify for free. And many of them are considering Clodify as the core system of their business and keep on using many useful paid modules.

LAMPStack solution based on the Yii2 Framework was initially chosen. It was easy to start, however, that approach has its complexities to separate UI from Business Logic.

And not only from this point of view. Since the first release of the Clodify system, web standards have dramatically transformed.

The existing system could not meet today’s clients’ needs, such as practicality and simplicity, neither complex management requirements.

At the same time, JAMStack was announced.

Skynix took that risk and decided to migrate to JAMStack at the very beginning.

Having passed a difficult way through the new JAMStack architecture, the Skynix team managed to get all the necessary components working like a breeze.

Clodify became a full-featured system and their team’s reliable companion, remarkably transforming their operations, skyrocketing their ROI, and allowing them to keep growing for years to come.

Custom progressive JAM solution to meet all business needs

Even having significant expenses the Clodify team keeps a basic version of CRM free of charge. Any small startup requires to be cost-effective, otherwise, it dies. When a business spends tons of money on paperwork, all the processes go very slow, customers are not happy and the business loses money. And instead of gaining profit, the business should balance expenses and income. Clodify software gives the solution. The team of IT professionals at Skynix delivered a highly performed SaaS system based on the Ember and Yii2 Frameworks. To see what we mean, visit https://skynix.clodify.com/. We are pretty confident that any offline business will be satisfied with it. Core features of Clodify System Architecture was designed for a distributed AWS-based architecture with database replications, load balancer, dockerized containers, cheap spot servers, health, and security monitoring. SaaS Web Application was built from scratch using Ember and Yii2 Frameworks.

Core features of the CRM system:

This solution was designed for a distributed AWS-based architecture with database replications, load balancer, dockers, elastic containers service, health and security monitoring.

A fully automated Continuous Integration architecture was implemented to automate builds, tests, deployments on staging servers and releases based on Bamboo.

The software was a built-from-scratch SaaS system. Yii2 based API delivers a high level of complexity with the capacity to be customized as needed to fit the most sophisticated client's needs. Ember.js Framework provides the best user flow.

Speaking about Clodify, such customizations included:

Why it pays-out to use Clodify for your business
Free of charge
Quick and easy invoicing
Efficient inventory
Less paperwork

An intelligent cloud-based - and real-time - CRM software which lets you keep track of your customers
It saves you money by reducing labor downtime, improving efficiency in the office, and helping to highlight problem areas in business productivity.
The best thing is because it integrates seamlessly with Atlassian Software

results

Results of 2 years agile development

Implementation and integration of those third-party services, Skynix managed to become cost-effective, significantly reduce development expenses and timelines. Timely launched, upgraded, and modern CRM SaaS software was rapidly growing. During the first five months after launch, the business has multiplied the number of joined clients. Clodify became the number one CRM software in the USA and left its competitors far behind.

First, CLodify migrated outdated LAMP to modern JAM stack

They got an improved User Interface with many features available out of the box.

The solution provided reaches RESTful and Graphql APIs needed for coding Progressive UI.

The migration gave a significant economy with security enhancements.

Second, they got Modern Web Application

The benefits of the Modern applications: conversion rate growth, reduction in application weight, reduced resources cost even with an increased number of users, offline mode, and much more.

The modern application was coded using Ember Framework, which made development costs much lower as it did not require rare, specific resources.

It helps speed up the growing process 1.5 times, involves new clients, and expands business abroad.

As a conclusion

By the example of the Clodify project, the incredible potential of Yii2 becomes clear. A solution still cannot be called perfect, and there is so much potential to customize this system to meet all needs dictated by time.