Vivis

Everything for the party

Vivis sells balloons, decorations, costumes, cake toppers, confetti and helium from two shops, one in Podgorica and one in Budva, and ships everywhere else in Montenegro. A child's birthday, a gender reveal, a wedding hall: most of the country's celebrations pass through one of their counters at some point.

The old shop ran on WooCommerce and had stopped keeping up with the catalogue. We rebuilt it as an application of its own: the storefront in Montenegrin, the back office in English, and the catalogue, the cart, the payments and the wholesale accounts all on one backend.

A catalogue that arrived whole

The migration was the first deliverable, not the last. Every product, category, theme and filter came across in one scripted import, and every photo was copied into the new platform's storage, so nothing on the site still points at the old server. The old category addresses were kept letter for letter, so the links customers had saved and search engines had indexed still land where they did.

What changed is how the catalogue is shaped. A product can sit in up to ten categories and is listed in every one of them. Brands that used to be categories became a manufacturer filter. Filters are ordered per category by the shop, and the URL carries them, so a filtered list can be shared like any other page.

Two shops, on every page

Most customers still walk in. The home page and the contact page carry both shops with their own map, hours, phone number and directions, and the storefront photo from the Podgorica shop says more about what Vivis is than any line of copy could.