Software at the HEART

Posted by Andy Bowden

We have a very long association with www.heartsystems.co.uk. The company produce a very well established back-office system for the Office Supplies sector but the market was showing increasing interest in online solutions. Working closely with the team at Heart we custom coded a system to link to Heart’s core back office software (allows office stationery dealers to manage products and orders). The new system developed fully by Orphans links the back office system to new online websites for customers created automatically via a central system managed by Heart. The new system was the result of 18 months development and has been extremely successful, managing tens of millions of pounds of transactions annually. We continue to partner Heart with development of the system and new initiatives.

18 months initial system design	5.5 year relationship
New online system handles over £10m of order per year	Customer websites allow their own customers to login and see their own prices (net of discounts) for 30,000+products
Over 100 customer websites ‘switched on’	Continually evolving