Online store creation www.co2-footprint.ch for Swiss Climate AG

Development and support of an OXID store for CO₂ compensation certificates in B2B & B2C

Swiss Climate AG from Bern has commissioned eWorks as a long-standing OXID partner to develop and support a powerful online store for the sale of CO₂ compensation certificates based on OXID eShop. Swiss Climate AG is a consulting company in the areas of CO₂ management, sustainability, climate protection projects and energy and offers companies profitable and innovative solutions to shape a sustainable future, have a positive impact on the environment and society, increase profits and strengthen their image at the same time. To promote these goals, Swiss Climate AG wanted to have an online store created in order to be able to calculate CO₂ offset certificates fully automatically via a web store, generate them in real time and sell them online as virtual goods. In 2020, offers were obtained from various online store agencies - eWorks was awarded the contract in 2021.

OXID eShop from the Freiburg-based eCommerce specialist OXID eSales AG in the free OXID eShop Community Edition (OXID CE) was chosen as the most suitable store system. The eWorks OXID developers were allowed to set up this innovative online store, adapt it to the specific client requirements, program individual OXID modules for the technical requirements and, last but not least, create and integrate a mobile-optimized web design that offers an intuitive user experience in several languages despite the novel subject matter.

The technical focus of the project was the programming of the CO₂ emissions calculator so that store customers can quickly and easily calculate their CO₂ footprint caused by air travel, events, etc. For this purpose, various data is recorded, such as the travel situation or number of participants, which is enriched by averaged empirical values such as fuel consumption, etc., and converted into real CO₂ values and ultimately OXID prices. These calculated CO₂ emissions can then be conveniently and easily invested in climate protection projects directly in the store and thus offset. After successful payment via Datatrans AG's online payment system in euros or Swiss francs, store customers receive certified PDF documents in the corporate design and in the desired languages, which document the carbon offsetting.

As expected, the technical highlights for the OXID programmers in the eWorks team were the various calculator programs, such as the calculation of flight routes using spherical geometry in order to be able to calculate the most accurate results possible. As well as the PHP programming of the numerous convenience functions such as airport auto-completion or the graphical target/actual comparison for store customers to facilitate data entry and motivate them to complete a purchase.

A few months later, the completely redeveloped webshop went live as planned in 2022 and has been continuously supported by eWorks as an OXID agency ever since. In addition to regular maintenance work, the eWorks OXID programmers primarily carry out occasional adjustments and extensions at the customer's request, prepare evaluations or analyses and rectify security-related problems.

Used technologies

HTML / CSS
JavaScript / jQuery
PHP
Web design

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