Getsocio Evolves into General Purpose E-commerce Platform

April 19, 2016 - PRLog -- International custom software development company, Anadea Inc., announces the release of the updated Getsocio platform.

Getsocio is a SaaS for creating daily deal, group buying and coupon websites. It was first launched to the market in March 2010. This site building platform is specifically designed to serve the needs of small and mid-sized businesses through creating white label, full-featured and customizable e-commerce websites at an affordable price.

The current release is preparatory to more considerable re-building. It was produced within three months of tense work and involves major technical updates and design changes. Particularly, Getsocio.com is now a standalone CMS application (based on CMS system developed for anadea.info). The application engine was restructured for proper operation of public, admin and tenant's parts of the system. Corresponding content migration and rearranging were performed along with crucial redesign and SEO optimization of the site.

The operating system on the production server was updated to the newest available version 14.04. Some other technical changes are:

• DB migration from MySQL to Postgres;
• Deploy to Dokku;
• Redirects http -> https, www.domain.com -> domain.com by means of nginx;
• Refactoring and cleaning of the project code base.

Now, the core technology stack of Getsocio includes:

• Ruby 2.3, Rails 4;
• Postgres 9.5;
• Ubuntu 14.04;
• Dokku 0.4.14;
• Docker 1.10.3.

The users may take benefit of new marketing tools, such as business name and slogan generators. Besides, due to using https for the tenant's sites, the installation of SSL certificates is now automated and effortless for users.

As can be seen from above, http://getsocio.com/ has got some important and needful enhancements. They may not look revolutionary, however, some tasks that seemed easy to do, in fact required considerable effort and research. Thus, this stage of development is successfully completed and new exciting changes are on the way.

About Anadea Inc.

Anadea Inc. is a custom software development company specializing in building web and mobile applications for business. The company provides a full range of services on software development, customization and maintenance. Anadea's areas of expertise cover diverse industries, including e-commerce, real estate, healthcare and education. The company practices an Agile software development methodology and contributes to the open-source community. Visit http://anadea.info/ for more details.