A rewards program run by hand, replaced with a system employees log into and vendors get paid through.
Stec's Rewards runs custom employee-incentive programs for companies nationwide — employees earn points for hitting goals and redeem them from thousands of products across respected brands. Awarding those points and turning each redemption into a real vendor order used to be manual, spreadsheet-driven work. Pixel Pines — the custom software development team now part of PROJEX — built the platform that replaced it.
Snapshot
- Client: Stec's Advertising, maker of Stec's Rewards ()
- Industry: Employee incentive & rewards programs
- Services: Development — custom software
- Delivered by: Pixel Pines, now part of PROJEX
The challenge
Stec's Rewards needed to replace a highly manual process for issuing and tracking the points companies award their employees, and for turning each employee's redemption into an actual purchase order with the right vendor affiliate. Every company using the program needed its own branded catalog and portal experience, and Stec's staff needed to configure and publish that catalog themselves — without a developer in the loop for every change.
The approach
We built two connected systems on a shared SQL Server database: a public-facing employee web portal, and a back-office admin application for Stec's own staff.
- Employee web portal (ASP.NET MVC 5 + DevExpress ASP MVC Controls) where employees securely log in, browse a filterable product catalog, add items to a cart, manage shipping addresses, and check out with points or an alternate payment method
- Back-office desktop application (DevExpress eXpress Application Framework) where Stec's staff configure and publish a custom catalog per client company, and customize each company's portal with its own branding, notices, and program documentation
- Automatic purchase-order generation and routing to vendor affiliates directly from the system, replacing manual order processing
- One central SQL Server database keeping the employee portal and back-office app in sync in real time
Results at a Glance
What the Client Says
"Pixel Pines (now PROJEX) did a fantastic job taking our list of needs and creating a system from scratch that greatly increased our efficiency. Work that used to take us weeks can now be accomplished in hours, allowing us to focus our time and energy on driving sales and servicing our customers. Very pleased with the professional development process and the resulting software!"
Running an incentive or rewards program by spreadsheet and email?
If awarding points, managing a catalog, or processing vendor orders still means manual work on your end, that's exactly the kind of custom software problem we build for.
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