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Arillatype®
Custom website for font management and sales.
Arillatype® is a platform designed for managing and selling fonts, developed with advanced technologies to optimize performance and security.
The user interface is a static web application built with Vue.js (Nuxt.js), updated via a custom backend.
Static websites offer many advantages:
- They’re extremely fast. Unlike PHP, which reads a database and regenerates the page on every visit, here the page is already generated and stored on a CDN that serves files from the closest point to the visitor.
- They’re more stable. Just static files! Scaling a static site is far simpler than scaling databases, nodes, load balancers...
- They’re more secure. Much harder to hack than a CMS. Security depends on the hosting platform.
The backend is a customized version of our tailored e-commerce system. Key features include:
- Digital product: Purchased fonts are downloaded, not physically shipped. This required changes to the sales process and customer data collection, as well as implementing a secure download system with private links.
- Licensing: Fonts are sold with different license types, each with pricing and modifiers based on the number of employees.
- Bundles: Products can be purchased in packages with varying prices.
- Font processing: Using fontTools libraries installed on the server, we can modify metadata of uploaded fonts and regenerate them in different formats (TTF, OTF, WOFF, and WOFF2).
- Automatic VAT updates for each EU country and validation of intra-community VAT numbers.
- Holded integration: Syncing orders with predefined VAT types and stock deduction for better sales control.
- Frontend rebuild from the dashboard. No need to access the platform panel or run terminal commands.
