How Telus Mobility Became Drupal Commerce Users

Drupal Commerce powers the configuration and purchase flow, shopping cart, and checkout experience for Telus Mobility, the 28th largest company in our entire nation here in Canada. Processing approximately $25 million annually through this department, $10 million of which through custom built Drupal Commerce solution (and on track to handle $25 million a year through the site starting in 2017…), how do you... 1) land a whale, 2) plan a migration of this scale, 3) complete this build, 4) maintain this monster going forward, and 5) ensuring you still have a profit margin, even with a huge account (you’d be surprised).
The Setup:
● How did Acro Media and Telus Mobility Meet?
● What did we have to offer this giant organization that others couldn’t?
○ Flexibility, quick builds, little process, no monthly fees, no feature release cycles

The Punchline:
● They agreed to move to Drupal Commerce, for real. Now what?
○ Planning a multi-faceted migration
○ Building the tools and integrations
○ It’s live, how do we keep it alive?

The Topper:
● Did we make any money in this process?
○ How to ensure your company makes profit with high volume development

• What level of knowledge should attendees have before walking into your session - no experience necessary, but some familiarity with Drupal Commerce would be helpful
• What will your session accomplish and what will attendees walk away having learned - Attendees will learn how to plan a migration off of legacy code over to Drupal, how to prioritize tools that need to move, be rebuild or be ditched, and once you get a new mega build up and live, how do you keep it running and still make your agency money. Also, attendees will learn how powerful Drupal Commerce can be for a "Configure and Buy" style purcahse flow making multiple services calls behind the scenes, and how to work with limited caching for each unique shoppers offers / services in a high volume situation like an iPhone release!