IMPROVING DIGITAL COMMERCE
Discover® Network
How working with Acro Commerce helps a global payment network make Drupal better.
Three Payment Brands, One Powerful Network
Built on the reach, capabilities, and expertise of three brands: Discover® Network, Diners Club International®, and PULSE®. These highly recognizable brands partner to process billions of transactions annually and connect across the industry to power payments globally.
Improving Online Payments Globally
Global business and personal account holders use their cards daily at businesses that accept the three brands. So, it is essential that cardholders can complete transactions through various ecommerce platforms and other payment technologies.
With the rise in online shopping, it was important for Discover Network to identify and remediate acceptance gaps within the Drupal Commerce ecosystem. This would include ensuring that existing Drupal payment modules can process card types associated with the Discover Network and display their respective logos at checkout.
With over 1.1 million websites worldwide using Drupal and Drupal Commerce combined, the Discover team knew they had to work closely with the Drupal community. However, ensuring that the Drupal ecosystem includes and promotes its card suite is no small task.
Drupal and Drupal Commerce have over 1,300 actively maintained modules related to the ecommerce functions of carts, checkouts, and payments. If gaps are found in any of these modules, fixes may need to be made. The fixes would then need to be pushed to the larger Drupal Community to take effect on sites using those modules.
Why They Came to Acro Commerce
While most organizations seek Acro Commerce’s expertise in ecommerce and website development, Discover® Network had a different reason. They leveraged Arco Commerce’s expertise to improve the open-source Drupal ecosystem and improve payments for Drupal developers, consumers, and merchants alike.
Embracing one of the core values of open-source development, Discover sought a collaborative development agency that could improve the online payment space.
Their team wanted a collaborator in the space who knew and understood how Drupal’s ecosystem of core components, distributions, modules and themes worked together. They needed a development team of Drupal contributors who were familiar with that process but understood the company’s unique use case.
Acro Commerce made an excellent collaborative teammate due to its over 25 years of open-source development experience, supporting more than 125 Drupal projects and being home to some of the world's top Drupal contributors.
Enhancing Ecommerce Experiences
Improving the online payment experience through open-source solutions presented challenges and opportunities.
Discover Network aimed to improve online payments and began by looking at all open-source solutions. The first step was to collaborate with technology providers and organizations, like Drupal, to ensure that payment processes at checkout worked seamlessly. Working with experienced and respected Drupal developers was essential to achieving the higher goal.
Improving payment acceptance and including all viable payment options benefits key ecommerce stakeholders
- Consumers benefit from a positive and streamlined digital shopping experience.
- Merchants gain an increase in sales and a decrease in shopping cart abandonment.
- Development teams build with cleaner code and continue impressing clients.
- The Drupal Community develops an improved product and something innovative to build on.
Improvements to Drupal Commerce core, payment gateway modules, and developer documentation help ensure payment processing functionality and security meet today’s merchant and developer needs.
Enhanced reporting in Drupal payment-related modules leads to better data for merchants, enabling focused decision-making and encouraging a better user experience in online payment processing. In turn, this allows the merchant to make more targeted decisions.
530+ Developer Hours
Contributed to module updates in just six months.
288 Modules Reviewed
Major payment modules in Drupal were checked for card support.
20+ Modules Updated
Including Commerce Core, Commerce POS & Commerce Stripe
"Because of their deep open source and ecommerce expertise, we worked closely with Acro Commerce to help us achieve key card acceptance goals within the Drupal ecosystem. In collaboration with their team, we successfully updated and remediated 20+ major payment modules and made key updates to Drupal Core that will help merchants and consumers have improved digital shopping experiences.”
Ellie Smith, Senior Director – Market Strategy and Enabler Management
Open Source Development to Make Ecommerce Better
Consumers, sellers, and developers benefit from better code and better Drupal module performance.
- Optimized digital shopping experiences
- Increased sales and decreased shopping cart abandonment
- Cleaner code and better functionality
The cornerstone of open-source technology is that it benefits the greater good within the software development community.
