Quinlan & Fabish Music Company

Quinlan & Fabish Music Company

In 1959, fellow music educators George Quinlan and Tom Fabish joined forces and launched Quinlan & Fabish Music Company. The goal was to assist and guide Chicago area school music programs and students. Nearly 60 years later, the Quinlan family remains dedicated to honoring their father’s guiding principles and legacy.

Now with nine stores throughout three Midwest states, Quinlan & Fabish Music Company remains focused on making it easier for students to participate in Band and Orchestra through outstanding service and community partnerships.

Solution

Orases worked with Q&F to create a modern, cleanly designed website that can be managed in their existing Megatool. The new website is able to accommodate web sales, rentals, rental payments and invoice payments, and provides the client with multiple site templates to manage their specialty shops. Customers can sign in to their accounts to view open invoices and make payments.

The new site is integrated into the client’s inventory systems to keep all of their systems aligned and up to date. The site utilizes a simple PHP back end with a JavaScript front end and is hosted on an Elastic Computing instance EC2 on AWS.

Process

This project was developed through an Agile process in which Orases utilized a Critical Path approach. By knowing the critical path, we were able to keep the scope of the project focused on the items that needed to be done to deliver the site as soon as possible and to keep the client's goals at the center of the development approach.