Sago Mini

Creating a New Checkout Portal for Physical Merchandise

Sago Mini, a Spin Master subsidiary, saw online demand for its toys spike during COVID lockdowns, putting pressure on its small internal development team. Ollon supplied multiple full stack developers who worked alongside Sago Mini's team to accelerate feature development and meet tight timelines. Sago Mini scaled the team down once demand normalized, and still calls on Ollon for on demand support today.

Situation

Sago Mini, a subsidiary of Spin Master, experienced a surge in demand for the online components of their toys due to COVID-19 lockdowns, which drove more users to their digital products. With a small development team and increased pressure to enhance their online offerings, Sago Mini required additional development support to meet their growing user base's needs quickly.

Solution

Ollon provided multiple full stack developers to support Sago Mini's internal team, enhancing their capacity to build and improve the online components of their toys. The developers worked collaboratively with Sago Mini's team to accelerate feature development and optimize workflows to meet increased demand.

Results

Ollon's support enabled Sago Mini to scale their online offerings, complete features efficiently, and meet timelines during the heightened demand brought on by COVID-19 lockdowns. As demand normalized, Sago Mini was able to reduce the size of Ollon's team but continues to rely on Ollon for on-demand support when needed.

Technologies

Stripe, Chargebee, Ruby on Rails, Shopify Liquid, Javascript, HTML, CSS

Our Expertise in Action

Team augmentation and staff scaling

Sago Mini, a Toronto based toy and educational app subsidiary of Spin Master, saw online demand spike during COVID-19 lockdowns, putting pressure on a small internal development team to keep pace with new feature requests. Ollon supplied additional developers to work alongside Sago Mini's team, picking up campaign pages, feature work, and other digital deliverables as they came up. The engagement has run on an ongoing, on demand basis since 2020. Ollon's team scaled down once pandemic era demand normalized, then continued providing developers whenever Sago Mini needed extra capacity, a model that keeps the relationship active today.

Shopify

Sago Mini, a Toronto based toy and educational app company, runs a separate storefront section of its business on Shopify alongside its main site, where seasonal campaigns require frequent new landing pages. Ollon built a library of drag and drop components for this section, giving Sago Mini's team the ability to assemble new pages internally without commissioning custom development for every campaign. The components remain in active use for ongoing storefront updates, and Ollon continues to support the section as new campaign needs arise.

Toys

Sago Mini, a Toronto based toy and educational app company for children, regularly partners with properties such as Paw Patrol and Gabby's Playhouse to launch new campaign pages, and its design team hands off mockups with an expectation of pixel perfect execution. Ollon's developers translate those designs into web pages built to match, with QA feedback flagging discrepancies as small as a few pixels. Sago Mini has continued bringing Ollon back for new campaigns across this multi year relationship, pointing to a track record of meeting that bar for precision.