Royal Zoological Society of Scotland

The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland operates Edinburgh Zoo, the Highland Wildlife Park and supports research and conservation projects in the UK and around the world. With the imminent arrival of the giant pandas at Edinburgh Zoo, the RZSS wanted to launch a new online store to offer gifts, keeper experiences and animal sponsorship.

Our technological expertise really came to the fore in this project. We worked closely with the digital team at Edinburgh Zoo to understand the business requirements, map out the user experience and develop the page designs. We created their online shop using Tea Commerce on the open source Umbraco platform and the underlying content management system was also built using Umbraco. This system makes it very easy for the team at the zoo to manage products, descriptions and prices.

The end result was a very happy client. In the words of Jon-Paul Orsi, Digital Specialist at Edinburgh Zoo:

"Metadigital has been an invaluable digital partner in our efforts to build an online store. From the initial tendering process we were impressed with their professionalism and thoroughness, and this continued throughout the project development. Deadlines were always met, we were consulted at every stage, and effective solutions were found if problems were encountered. Following the launch of our online store Meta have been fantastic in terms of their ongoing support and we would have no hesitation in recommending them. We look forward to working with them again in the future."

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