Z Cellular

Pay-as-you-go Cellular company.

This was a very extensive and complex project, involving multiple applications, and cutting edge technologies:

• Authorize.net CIM Billing - Fully PCI Compliant in every way.
• Affiliate / Franchise systems.
• Automated Cellular Refills.
• The ability to handle multiple phones - regardless of carrier.
• Custom-built Online Store
• Invoicing system
• WSDL / SOAP interfaces to providers
• Member areas with content based on Group Membership
• Private access for operations, procurement, and customer service
• HTML5, Bootstrap 3, jQuery, CSS3, Responsive
• MODX, Template Variables, Collections, pdoTools
• xPDO
• 2-tiered commission system
• Custom store-front

Applications:

CimGateway

A Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Authorize.net Customer Information Manager (CIM) gateway.

CodedBonus

A membership application managing affiliations and relationships.

PinPortal

A WSDL implementation allowing monthly cellular service at any carrier in the world.

Z-Wallet

A PCI/DSS compliant billing, shipping, invoicing, and ordering module using Authorize.net CIM.

Website

Reseller portal, access control lists, user backoffice, and membership management.

Automated Value assessment

Roles

Partner

34% Owner (majority in Florida is 66.67%)

COO

Chief of Operations

CTO

Chief Technology Officer

Lead Developer

Backend API,code, front-end, and backoffice areas.

Summary

Project went through three generations as the company model went from public access, limited access, and finally member-only access.

Indecision and other environmental forces caused the project to eventually stall.

Upon advice of my attorney, I notified the company of my intention to sever all personal, company, and code base affiliation with the company.

Tests

In a three-month limited trial run, the company processed an excess of $10,000 in orders resulting with several hundred dollars in commissions placed in virtual wallets of clients.

Overall, other than a few tweaks, the pilot was considered a success.

Comments

While programmers familiar with sizable projects may, at first glance, think the assessed values to be disproportionate with amount of coding. This project was written using xPDO which objectifies data, structures, and relationships. Additionally, xPDO handles database connections, information abstraction, and injection cleansing.

Projects using xPDO can typically be developed using only 10% - 25% of the effort and code size of projects developed without it.

Conclusion

All rights to the code, logic, and underlying systems were retracted by my company, Sanity LLC, and was returned by signed-agreement.