End Point Clients

End Point is proud of our clients' success and of the relationships we've built with our customers over the last decade. Our core values of trust and accountability resonate within the online community and have helped End Point establish our exceptional reputation in ecommerce and web development.

Featured Clients

Collaborative Software Initiative, Portland, Oregon

The Collaborative Software Initiative promotes a unique, team-based approach to software development in many different business fields. End Point has worked with CSI in product selection, system configuration, and software development in the financial services and public health sectors, to build data collection and warehousing systems based on open source projects such as Cassandra and Pentaho. We've also worked with CSI engineers to build powerful Ruby-based tools for modeling with Cassandra. Our engineers work as a part of the CSI team, and integrate into their agile software development team processes.

End Point is one of the better business partners I've had. Great work, smart, honest, fair & thoughtful people to boot.

Mike Herrick, VP of Products, Collaborative Software Initiative

The College District, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

CollegeDistrict.com supports multiple websites using a single system built by End Point on top of Interchange and PostgreSQL. This system allows College District to launch new sites within a day and begin selling new products immediately while presenting a different color scheme for each site. Sites currently managed by the system are for various colleges such as TigerDistrict.com and GatorDistrict.com, custom ordering for organizations on GreekDistrict.com and ATODistrict.com as well as non-college products on Fat-Shirts.com. End Point handles day-to-day support, server maintenance, and new development.

outside.in, Manhattan, New York

outside.in provides "hyperlocal" news and content services to bloggers, publishers, and individual consumers built on a complex architecture of cloud-based servers. End Point has managed the health and performance of their many PostgreSQL database instances, including configuration, backups, optimization, upgrades, and migrations. The I/O and reliability considerations that accompany working in the cloud affect database operations significantly, and our work has focused particularly on scaling the available storage systems to support the heavy traffic outside.in's application serves.

The Providence Plan, Providence, Rhode Island

The Providence Plan is a nonprofit organization working to improve the economic and social well-being of city residents. Since 2009 End Point has served them in two roles: We help with architecture and support of their Linux system infrastructure, including application and database security. We also work with their in-house staff to develop their web application using Django, Python, and PostgreSQL. This has involved many interesting behind-the-scenes features, such as deduplication of similar data from several sources using fuzzy matching and similarity scoring algorithms, scheduling user-driven batch processes, and generating graphs, charts, and reports.

JackThreads.com, Columbus, Ohio

JackThreads.com is a members-only online retailer selling top-tier contemporary streetware for men. We worked with JackThreads' engineers to refactor major portions of their original PHP application into the CakePHP MVC framework, and instituted unit tests in their application. Other work has included performance analysis and optimization for both raw page speed and scalability, system administration for their production and development servers, and expansion of their sales and offering design to improve the flexibility with which products can be offered for sale. We also have integrated their online systems with several third-party services, including Atandra to allow for management of products and sales through QuickBooks, and integration with Thrillist.com.

Paper Source, Chicago, Illinois

Founded in 1983, Paper Source has become the premiere seller of fine handmade papers from around the world, offering over 1,000 different types of paper and tools and supplies through 25 retail locations, catalogs, and ecommerce. Since launching their Interchange site in 2005, they've seen great online sales growth. The latest design includes work done by End Point to make the site search engine friendly, helping to increase conversion on their Mix and Match items by 120% in the four months since completion.

CityPass, Victor, Idaho

CityPass offers tourists discounted, pre-purchased tickets to top attractions in many of North America's most exciting destinations. End Point has supported CityPass's ecommerce operations since 2003. We have supported their growth in many ways, creating new features including scheduled future product offerings, downloadable e-tickets, customized shipping integration with UPS, private partner portals, PayPal support, search engine optimization, analytics, performance enhancements, a mobile site, customer opt-in SMS notifications, customer-contributed content features, advanced development environments, and security audits and remediation.

Backcountry.com, Park City, Utah

Backcountry.com is a major online retailer selling outdoor adventure gear, now part of Liberty Interactive (NASDAQ: LINTA). End Point has worked extensively with Backcountry.com since 2002 in all technical areas including scalability, feature development, new ecommerce site development, PostgreSQL database support, and infrastructure tools and practices, to name a few. Read what Backcountry.com says about us:

End Point is a nimble and flexible consultancy with great people. We've tapped into their knowledgeable and committed staff on a number of occasions to advise and assist with the build out of web scale architectures to support our exploding customer base and traffic needs. When our growth rates outpaced our ability to hire and build our staff internally, we turned to End Point for some of our most pressing needs and they delivered.

Joel Brazle, Director of Software Development, Backcountry.com

I've been with Backcountry for just over a year and in my experience, I have been very pleased with our partnership. [End Point consultants] are capable, responsive and truly care about our success. We trust them implicitly, to the extent that my team sometimes forgets that they don't work for us exclusively. I appreciate their level of detail when it comes to their time management and reporting. They are thorough and honest. Of all the consulting firms I've worked with in the past, these guys get my strongest endorsement. I'm happy to discuss in greater detail over the phone should you care to call me.

Rob Plowgian, IT Operations Director, Backcountry.com

FragranceNet, Hauppauge, New York

FragranceNet (PINK: FGNT), is a top international retailer, specializing in perfumes, colognes, and related products. Our services for FragranceNet include operational support, system engineering and architecture, and application support and development. We overhauled their web hosting infrastructure, standardizing their server configurations and moving to a role-based strategy driven by the Puppet configuration management system. Subsequently, we built a parallel infrastructure utilizing cloud hosting services, driven by Puppet and custom Python-based cloud management tools, to provide a failover infrastructure for disaster recovery purposes. We've worked with FragranceNet's engineers on performance testing, application design and architecture, and the organization of development environments, staging, and rollout processes.

FLOR.com, Atlanta, Georgia

FLOR is a brand of Interface, Inc. (NASDAQ: IFSIA), which has made modular carpet tiles since 1974, and markets them internationally to consumers through ecommerce and print catalogs. End Point boosted the FLOR.com site's scalability and stability in a 2007 engagement, and since then we have implemented new designs and developed new ecommerce features for FLOR.com, several private business-to-business sites, and a back-end application. We have also implemented advanced development environments and provided system administration and security assistance.

FrozenCPU, Fairport, New York

FrozenCPU is one of the leading online retailers of PC modification supplies. End Point began working with FrozenCPU in 2006. We develop new features for both their front-end and back-end systems, and handle their day-to-day system administration and hosting. FrozenCPU is a custom-built site running on Interchange and MySQL which we have integrated with 3rd-party systems. We have also improved their fulfillment process, created a payment module for JetPay, and added many new ecommerce features.

Dean's Beans, Orange, Massachusetts

Dean's Beans is a retail coffee site that advocates and sells fair-trade coffee to connoisseurs. End Point took over hosting and support for their ecommerce site a few years ago. We have expanded the site's shipping capabilities, which is helping broaden the company's customer base. Read about the company's online sales success in this Boston Business Journal article.

Gear.com, Salt Lake City, Utah

Gear.com offers outdoor gear expertise and product information and aims to serve as the premier outdoor gear information hub. Gear.com runs on a complex mixture of technologies to combine the best content management system, site search, and web application framework for their needs. End Point has helped to develop and support custom themes and plugins for WordPress, a Ruby on Rails application to handle product listing, a Rails frontend application to integrate Omniture SiteSearch, and several PHP and Perl applications. We have also applied our PostgreSQL and system administration expertise to improve Gear.com's performance.

Survival International, London, United Kingdom

Survival International is a non-profit organization that supports tribal groups worldwide in education, advocacy, and campaigns. End Point developed Survival International's a Spree-based ecommerce site with custom theme integration and shopping cart customization including discounts, donations, and gift wrap options, described more in this blog post. Survival International used End Point's SpreeCamps service and contributed back to the Spree community with a product options extension derived from the work for Survival International.

Phish.net (The Mockingbird Foundation), Queensbury, New York

The Mockingbird Foundation is a non-profit organization founded by Phish fans in 1996 to generate charitable proceeds from the Phish community. Their web presence centers around the popular community site Phish.net, which gets heavy bursts of traffic around Phish events, and their busy web service API. End Point helped move Phish.net to new hardware and configure it for good performance.

I want to thank your team for your awesome help last week and the week before. We're all too familiar with server issues. When your team stepped up so quickly, got things tweaked and running so beautifully, we let out a huge sigh of relief. ... We're really happy with our move to End Point and the team we've got available to us.

Adam Scheinberg, Mockingbird Foundation