Aladdin
Aladdin is the world’s first online marketplace that brings together search, marketplace and customer community for UAE based telecom services. The SIM card aggregator multi vendor marketplace also offers a variety of mobile phone products and accessories on the same portal. By aggregating the services of authorised mobile and broadband service providers Aladdin is empowering customers in UAE to have multiple choices, exchange their feedback on service providers and make an informed decision regarding their mobile services provider.
The Aladdin service aggregator multi vendor marketplace is an attempt to offer a one-stop solution to customers through a network of authorised SIM and mobile service providers. While helping its customers Aladdin is also enabling mobile service providers by offering them access to a wider customer base on their multi vendor marketplace.
The Requirements
Aladdin wanted to build a novel mobile and broadband services online marketplace to help the customers in UAE in deciding the best mobile plans for their personal and home usage. Brand Aladdin aimed to offer a broad spectrum of choices to its customers by bringing together the best mobile service providers on a common platform. To make this happen they needed the following;
A service aggregator multi vendor marketplace solution to onboard and manage authorized mobile service retailers
A multilingual portal to connect with customers in their preferred language
Multi-level customizations for their unique brand requirements
Custom UI with support for RTL languages
Scalability to accommodate their growth plans for different countries in the MENA region
StoreHippo Powering Aladdin- The Unique Telecom Online Service Aggregator Marketplace
StoreHippo has been enabling brands to build tailor-made solutions in record time using the customizable turnkey enterprise ecommerce platform. With a long experience of building custom solutions for enterprise brands StoreHippo could easily offer battle-tested yet completely customized solutions for Aladdin’s service aggregator online marketplace. With headless commerce at its core StoreHippo enabled Aladdin to tweak the backend as well as the frontend to suit the brand’s needs and build custom flows.
StoreHippo helped Aladdin implement an easy process of digital buying where the customers could easily compare various mobile service providers and buy without actually visiting the offline store. With StoreHippo ecommerce solutions the Aladdin team could overcome the challenges of adding the SIM API, rewards API, seller specific store pick up etc. StoreHippo’s easily customizable and intuitive admin panel helped the Aladdin team design their unique entities and flows to make their business automated, efficient and error free.
The Benefits
The unique online marketplace model of Aladdin required an extremely flexible and scalable service aggregator marketplace solution to support their brand’s requirements. StoreHippo multi vendor ecommerce platform with inbuilt go global features was able to fulfill all the requirements of Aladdin easily. Designed on the MACH(Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native, Headless) architecture for ecommerce StoreHippo fully hosted and managed ecommerce platform could easily handle all the requirements for Aladdin.
Brand Aladdin could easily build a tailor-made service aggregator portal for their business using the 300+ inbuilt features and tools of StoreHippo top ecommerce platform.
With StoreHippo ecommerce platform they were able to achieve the following;
A well rounded service aggregator multi vendor marketplace solution to onboard mobile services and SIM retailers as vendors
Easy to use separate vendor dashboard for each retailer with complete control of each vendor activity by the admin(s)
A multilingual service aggregator marketplace in English and RTL Arabic
Custom themes and UI with support for RTL Arabic language
Extensive customizations to add SSO, custom product workflow linking their e-store and service aggregator marketplace, API flows and more
Unparalleled scalability to support their growth plans
