The Client

A specialized marketing agency that provides branded merchandise and uniforms to car dealerships nationwide. Their services include:

• Custom uniforms for dealership employees
• Branded merchandise for customer promotions
• Marketing materials and dealership swag
• Corporate gifts and promotional items

The Challenge

The agency uses Order My Gear (OMG) as their e-commerce platform to serve thousands of dealership employees across the country. Each dealership has unique pricing arrangements and product access levels based on their relationship with the manufacturer.

The platform uses SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) for Single Sign-On, allowing dealership employees to access OMG using their company credentials. While SAML handles basic authentication well, it couldn't pass along crucial dealership-specific information needed for proper permissions.

Key challenges included:

• New dealership employees need immediate access to order uniforms
• Different dealerships qualify for different promotional items and pricing
• Employee roles and dealership affiliations change frequently
• Manual permission management was becoming unsustainable
• Each dealership's special pricing needs to be accurately reflected

The Solution

We developed an efficient synchronization system that:

1. Uses SAML for secure user authentication
2. Monitors when users log into the OMG platform
3. Queries the manufacturer's database for current dealership affiliations