The Companies We Keep

At Kalio, our focus is on serving mid-sized B2C and B2B companies that are looking to take their ecommerce revenues to the next level. Discover some companies that have relied on Kalio to build sophisticated ecommerce websites that helps drive revenues faster.

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Catalogers & Specialty Retailers

Case Study

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Motis Brands, a rapidly growing IR Top 500 etailer, approached Kalio with a challenge: convert their old ecommerce site, www.DiscountRamps.com, to a modern data driven site capable of handling a large catalog of complex, configurable products.
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Case Study
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Motis Brands, a rapidly growing IR Top 500 etailer, approached Kalio with a challenge: convert their old ecommerce site, www.DiscountRamps.com, to a modern data driven site capable of handling a large catalog of complex, configurable products.
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Equipment & Supplies

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Agri Supply is your one stop shop for all your outdoor needs. With over 26,000 products, and customers nationwide, Agri Supply needed a solution that would synchronize and display current store-level inventories across all their products and locations. To do this, they needed more than an ecommerce platform. They needed a partner they could count on. Agri Supply found both in Kalio Commerce.

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Agri Supply is your one stop shop for all your outdoor needs. With over 26,000 products, and customers nationwide, Agri Supply needed a solution that would synchronize and display current store-level inventories across all their products and locations. To do this, they needed more than an ecommerce platform. They needed a partner they could count on. Agri Supply found both in Kalio Commerce.

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Food & Gift

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With short, peak, seasons and a perishable product, Hale Groves needed a vendor who could react quickly and build unique gifting capabilities to support their business. Combined with Kalio’s web order entry solution, Hale Groves has been able to deliver for their customers.

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With short, peak, seasons and a perishable product, Hale Groves needed a vendor who could react quickly and build unique gifting capabilities to support their business. Combined with Kalio’s web order entry solution, Hale Groves has been able to deliver for their customers.

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Home & Garden

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Jackson & Perkins needed a modern and flexible ecommerce solution that could support their need for multi-site capabilities, holiday gifting and multiple product regions. Kalio was able to migrate them from a homegrown platform and fully integrate with their Sage X3 ERP system.

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Jackson & Perkins needed a modern and flexible ecommerce solution that could support their need for multi-site capabilities, holiday gifting and multiple product regions. Kalio was able to migrate them from a homegrown platform and fully integrate with their Sage X3 ERP system.

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Pet & Animal Care

Case Study

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Kalio recently launched a new site for Schneiders Saddlery, a 71-year old equestrian retailer with a rapidly growing online business. The site was completed in 10 weeks with no post-live fire drills. By industry standards, projects of this scale typically take 6 months or longer and often experience instability for several months. That was not the case for Schneiders.

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Kalio recently launched a new site for Schneiders Saddlery, a 71-year old equestrian retailer with a rapidly growing online business. The site was completed in 10 weeks with no post-live fire drills. By industry standards, projects of this scale typically take 6 months or longer and often experience instability for several months. That was not the case for Schneiders.

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Sporting Goods

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Midwest Sports has flourished online with revenues growing from zero to the multi-million dollar range. Midwest Sports is proud to be one of the U.S. certified brands to represent and sell Nike® products online, a brand that is known for its accurate user experience and performance tests for certified online retailers.

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Midwest Sports has flourished online with revenues growing from zero to the multi-million dollar range. Midwest Sports is proud to be one of the U.S. certified brands to represent and sell Nike® products online, a brand that is known for its accurate user experience and performance tests for certified online retailers.

Case Study

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Discount Ramps

Top 500 eTailer Motis Brands sustains years of strong growth for DiscountRamps.com site with partnership of boutique platform provider Kalio

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Motis Brands, a rapidly growing IR Top 500 etailer, approached Kalio with a challenge:

The investors had charged CMO Eric Grunewald, an industry veteran and frequent speaker at the Internet Retailer Conference, with dramatically growing the company’s online sales. Converting their old Discount Ramps ecommerce site became a priority and required a combination of vision and expertise.

Together with Kalio, DiscountRamps.com became an enterprise-strength, flexible, modern site with specific fundamentals:

  • Data driven, adaptable, scalable
  • Capable of handling a large catalog
  • Complex, configurable products
  • Fast, reliable and powerful

The Motis team knew they would need to refresh the site constantly to keep ahead of the competition, requiring a flexible cloud platform that didn’t limit them to a rigid template but allowed them freedom to innovate. In addition, they needed a real-time integration to NetSuite, whose ecommerce capabilities were not up to the challenge.

Motis had another challenge.

Operating a modern ecommerce business from a small town in rural Wisconsin made it impossible to find the critical technical people they would need to keep modifying the site as the business grew. They needed ongoing capacity from a highly skilled team with deep knowledge of the platform and the technical leadership to keep them on track.

Kalio responded by providing ongoing dedicated capacity from a Dedicated Account Team, with leadership from a seasoned ecommerce Solutions Architect and the other roles needed to constantly move the site forward. Planning is done on an annual and quarterly basis to keep the team continuously focused on priority projects, and there is never a shortage of ideas to keep the business growing.

After several years of strong growth, the company is now launching other sites for their unique brands, such as www.RaceRamps.com, which they manage from the same Kalio Commerce Site Manager. Having recently moved into a huge, sparkling new warehouse, this category leader is positioned for continued strong growth. Their ongoing partnership with Kalio continues to be a meaningful success factor.

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Schneiders

A remarkable 10-week project implementing a highly customized ecommerce site on Kalio Commerce

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Online retailers contemplating replacement of their ecommerce platform often hesitate due to the cost, disruption and uncertainty involved.

Many implementation projects dramatically exceed budget, are never launched or fail to deliver as promised. The consequences to a midsize etailer can be extreme. The Kalio Commerce platform and implementation team have been carefully honed to address these risks. Kalio recently launched a new site for Schneiders Saddlery (www.sstack.com), a 71-year old equestrian retailer in northern Ohio with a rapidly growing online business.

The site was completed in 10 weeks with no post-live fire drills. The accelerated project timeline was critical for the business due to the increasing instability of their previous site. By industry standards, successful projects of this scale typically take 6 months or longer and often experience instability for several months. Schneiders didn’t have that kind of time.

This was not a templated site constraining Schneiders choices, but included a custom design and user experience, a first-in-kind ERP integration, integrated 3rd party solutions, well-planned SEO transition and features they had long wanted but couldn’t get on their old platform.

There were several key factors leading to this successful outcome.

  • The right partner team – Schneiders realized from their previous platform projects that success would depend on the expertise and trustworthiness of the implementation consultants, as much or more than the technology used. Lorelle Carpenter, Schneider’s COO, added, “The Kalio team’s technology expertise is a perfect complement to our team’s marketing skills and merchandising knowledge. We made it a priority to find a company and individuals we could count on as an extension of our team. Looking back on the smooth implementation of our intensely accelerated re-platforming project, it’s clear that Kalio’s team was the right choice. We’re looking forward to working together for many years to come as Kalio’s platform adapts to the ever-changing demands of our growing business.”
  • The right internal team – While the project was intense, there were some clear advantages to the accelerated approach. All Schneiders team members stayed focus on the project. Key stakeholders, including company executives, were actively engaged, making key decisions quickly. Scope was carefully managed to protect the schedule and budget. Critically, the Schneiders team understood their data and how it could drive dynamic user experience on the site.
  • The right platform – While the team saw other platforms with nice user interfaces and interesting features, their experience had them look under the hood more carefully at the architecture and capabilities that would impact their daily lives the most: ease of changing the design and user experience over time; ease of getting any data in and out of the system; the platform’s stability, performance and scalability that would not restrict growth.

“We didn’t need to change a template or get off the upgrade path to make modifications to our new website”, stated Jessica Adcock, Schneider’s Senior Project Manager. “There are no user experience constraints imposed by the platform. We now have a great foundation with freedom and flexibility to make design changes as we want them, quickly and easily.”

The implementation is just the beginning of a long-term journey. With the Kalio Commerce platform and Kalio’s services team acting as an ongoing extension of their team, Schneiders now has a foundation for long-term growth.