Not three products with three vendors. A change in one moves through the others, so we run them as one system.
Self-hosted. B2B order flow and EDI trading partner traffic via SPS Commerce.
Direct-to-consumer site, in two-way sync with the ERP.
The order desk your agents work phone orders in. Purpose-built, so there is no vendor behind it, and it reads and writes live to the ERP.
Instrumentation, alerting, and automated checks across all three systems, running whether or not anyone is at a desk. That is the mechanism behind every commitment in this proposal, and it is the part that was missing before.
Card testing and fraudulent orders look like ordinary traffic right up until the chargebacks arrive, weeks later, after the goods have already shipped.
Monitoring now sits on the order flow itself. Unusual patterns surface while they are happening, not in a reconciliation at the end of the month.
A WordPress install nobody was watching left an admin path open to the storefront. A site can look perfectly healthy from the outside for exactly as long as nobody is looking.
Access is inventoried, patching runs on a cadence, and an admin session nobody expected raises an alert rather than going unnoticed.
Through the development era our own visibility was limited by what there was to watch. Without the infrastructure in place, monitoring could only ever be partial.
That infrastructure is part of this engagement. Alerting covers all three systems, and the sync and EDI pipelines report their own health instead of waiting to be asked.
Five places we already see room to move. Each one is a proposal rather than a promise: we test it, report what it did, and drop it if it does not earn its place.
How fast you need an answer and how fast you need the work are different questions, and most requests only need the first one answered quickly. Every ticket asks both, separately.
Platform operations, application support, and the growth program in full. Invoiced on the first of the month.
quoted separately · third-party licensing · hosting beyond current footprint · net-new product development outside the allowance
This engagement should eventually reward the growth we help create, not only the hours we spend. Not this term — there is no baseline to set fair targets. At renewal there will be six months of real numbers.
We raise it now, before there is upside to point to, and back it with the $500 above. Acknowledging this commits you to a conversation, nothing more.