Case study · in production
PCAL — a printed calendar, made to order
The visitor designs their own calendar in the browser and orders it printed.
PCAL is a shop and a calendar designer in the same place: the customer decides which calendar they want — Hebrew or Gregorian, from which month to which, and which town the times are calculated for — picks a product, a material and a size, pays, and receives a calendar ready for print.
The route, end to end
What the system holds
The calendar designer
Pick the calendar type, the month range and the town the times are calculated for; view it month after month before ordering, and keep drafts to come back to.
Catalogue, materials and sizes
Products, print materials and sizes are defined in the management screens, and every combination prices itself.
Order and payment
A basket, an order summary, payment, a confirmation screen and a payment-failure screen — and past orders are kept for the customer.
Print-ready output
At the end of the process the system produces the calendar as a PDF ready for the press.
Management
Management screens for orders, products, materials, sizes and content pages.
How it fits the rest
The dates and times in the calendar come from the same zmanim library that drives the 2net calendar and My Calendar. PCAL is what happens when you put a shop on top of it: not only producing a calendar, but selling it.
An ordering system
A product each customer configures for themselves, ending in a file or an order — tell us what the product is.