Fintech and payments Case study
Campaign and payments platform for a crowdfunding firm
A crowdfunding site on WordPress with creator dashboards, tiered rewards, Stripe and Bitcoin payments, email campaigns and admin tools.
- AWS S3
- Stripe
- WordPress
- PHP
- Bitcoin payments
Overview
A platform that lets people and organizations run funding campaigns with direct funding or tiered rewards. We set up the platform, built custom plugins and designs on top of it, and maintained it for nearly three years.
The challenge
Campaign creators needed their own dashboards and tools, funders needed several payment routes, and admins needed oversight, all on top of a WordPress crowdfunding plugin that had to be extended and kept updated and secure.
What we built
- Platform setup, theme configuration and custom plugin work for signup and campaign creation
- Design and HTML/CSS for the home page, campaign pages, contact forms and checkout
- Creator dashboards with funding metrics, share tools and project fields
- Payment methods including Stripe, Bitcoin and subscription options
- Email campaign tools: CSV contact import and sending, with a paginated contact list
- Admin tools for campaign oversight, user permissions and platform performance
- Filtering, sorting, ranking and social sharing on campaign listings
- AWS S3 media storage, security fixes (XSS and clickjacking protection) and regular core and plugin updates
How a system like this fits together
- Client side
- Services
- Third parties
In words: Visitors and campaign creators use the campaign pages and creator dashboards, which run on WordPress with custom PHP plugins for signup, campaigns and admin tools. Payments go through Stripe, including subscriptions, or Bitcoin, and media is stored on AWS S3.
Technology used
| Layer | Choice | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Storage | AWS S3 | media storage |
| Payments | Stripe | card payments and subscriptions |
| Platform | WordPress, PHP | campaign platform with custom plugins |
| Payments | Bitcoin payments | an additional payment method |
What happened next
- Delivered
The work described above was delivered to the client.
- Operational facts
- Our work on this project spanned 2017–2020.
- It was maintained and extended over 3 years.
Could this be your project?
- You need a web application with user accounts, admin tools and reporting. Website and web app development
- Your product has to connect to payment, accounting, messaging or other third-party systems.
- You work in fintech and payments and want a team that has built for it before. Fintech and payments work
Questions about this project
How long did this project take?
Our work on it ran from 2017 to 2020, with 7,000+ engineering hours logged in total.
What technology was used?
AWS S3, Stripe, WordPress, PHP, Bitcoin payments, Git.
Was it maintained and extended over time?
Yes. Our work on this project was maintained and extended over 3 years, from 2017 to 2020.
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