Modernizing Metapack:
Velstar Upgrades Auctane's Shipping App for Enhanced Performance

Sector

IT services

Our role

Shopify App Development,

MetaPack

Auctane provides shipping and logistics software for eCommerce businesses. Its flagship product, Metapack, is a delivery management platform that streamlines carrier selection, label printing, tracking, and returns, all through a single integration. By connecting retailers to a vast network of carriers, Metapack enables flexible delivery options and enhances the customer experience.

Challenge

Auctane’s existing Metapack app needs to be updated to bring its Laravel and Shopify API code up to date. The key challenges include: Outdated Laravel and Shopify API versions and deprecation of the Shopify Rest API, requiring a migration to GraphQL.

Solution

Velstar’s approach to solving Auctane’s challenges involved:

App Setup / Upgrade: Updating Laravel and its dependencies from version 9 to 10, then to the latest version 11, ensuring all existing functionality remains intact after each upgrade.

API Upgrade: Updating the third-party Shopify API code from version 1 to the latest version 5.

GraphQL Migration: Replacing all deprecated Shopify Rest API calls with their GraphQL equivalents and confirming existing functionality.

Documentation: Updating app documentation for deployment and code functionality.

Hosting Support: Offering options for Auctane to either host the updated app themselves by providing the code repository or by transferring AWS company ownership to Auctane for continued hosting on their existing infrastructure.

Deployment & Testing: Conducting internal QA, facilitating UAT by Auctane on staging/QA stores, completing UAT bug fixes, and merging approved fixes to the release candidate store.