Animates
NZ pet retail chain. Took over a stalled platform mid-flight, refactored 70% of the bad code during a cloud migration, then shipped same-day delivery and recurring orders on top.
Animates (operated by Greencross) is one of New Zealand's largest pet care chains — products, vet services, grooming, DIY washes, catteries.
An e-commerce platform that was actively losing them money
The store was running on unstable code with significant technical debt. New features were high-risk, holiday traffic exposed scaling limits, and the previous build had created more problems than it solved.
We audited before we touched anything
Deep code-quality review. Honest prioritisation. We turned vague feature requests into a sequenced delivery timeline before writing the first line of new code.
Refactored 70% of the bad code during the move
Migration to Adobe Commerce Cloud was the chance to clean up rather than copy across. The result: a platform that holiday traffic doesn't break, and where the next feature isn't a high-risk bet.
Subscriptions that don't drop payments
Payment processing rebuilt to handle thousands of recurring transactions reliably. Admin tooling so the merchant can see, fix, and scale the subscription base without a developer ticket.
Answer 'when?' on the product page, not at checkout
Direct integration with the NZ Post API and address validation, surfaced on PDP. Customers see the delivery window before they add to cart, which is where the abandonment question actually lives.
Off the legacy stack, modernised server side
Cleared the last of the deprecated extensions and modernised the server stack. Every subsequent feature ships faster because the base isn't fighting the platform.
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