If you’re on our website, you already know about Hara Partners. We’re an e-commerce solutions company focused mainly on building websites in Magento for online retailers.
We provide full-service web builders custom tailored to your business needs, from front-end functionality to complex backend logic. We’ve worked with over 250 Magento-based stores, and are able to service our clients with design, photography, IT services, and hosting.
To read more about us, you can visit our About page. All of the posts that you see here below deal directly with news about our company, such as who we’ve partnered with in the past, our meetups, and who our current clients are.
As a qualified NetSuite-Magento integrator, we are also happy to post the wonders of both systems in these posts. Some companies can say that they’re Magento experts, but we’re the real deal. That’s why most ecommerce companies know that we’re the #1 professionals when it comes to this stuff.
More About Hara Partners:
Hara Partners cultivates a collaborative atmosphere of analytical, business-minded individuals. We’re a smart, young, entrepreneurial company poised for growth and new opportunities. We operate entirely in-house, bolstering one another with complementary specializations. We hold weekly meetings to keep our entire team up-to-date with the latest technologies and performance-enhancing tweaks for online retailers.
Our Project Managers, Tech Leads, Sales Leads, and Design Leads are trained experts in their respective disciplines, each functioning as a single cog in Hara Partners’ team dynamic. This unique four-perspective approach permits a comprehensive understanding of your business and advanced strategizing from the get-go. In other words, we bring e-commerce development expertise to the table in order to position you as the expert in your industry.
Our relationship with you is a two-way street. Foremost in our values are honesty and humility, the cornerstones of our partnership-building efforts. We employ a consultative approach, always addressing your requirements with your best interests in mind. We’re with you every step of the way—planning, execution, finalization, and post-process—and we’ve developed a suite of scalable services to assist you in the process. We speak your language and consider you our Partner.
On Wednesday, Novemeber 16, Hara Partners held a joint meet and greet with Rachel Enz, Magento Territory Sales Manager.
Hara Partners’ CTO, Jun Zhao, worked hand-in-hand with Rachel in leading a discussion about Magento Enterprise features and the latest Magento news and events.
Our attendees’ Q&A session eventually led into a more intimate setting where we were learned much from one another.
Thank you all who came.
Any online store looks to obtain two things: functional simplicity and visual aesthetics. With these two features, any store can draw their customers in and guide them through the shopping experience with ease. There are times in which shortcuts are made, attempting to make these goals as easy as possible to obtain. Unfortunately shortcuts don’t always prove to be the best method.
Example A: Cafe Commerce; a “simple-to-use” e-store factory that takes very little time or effort to establish for $30 a month. A free 14 day trial is available, if one was curious about trying their hand at the program. However, the overall experience is nothing less than disappointing.
The general organization of the system is neat, but far too basic. It is easy to navigate through the background structure of your store, simple to add or remove items, and quick to check the statistics on your sales. Everything is properly labeled and explained on its function, but it limits the possibilities on how to design your online store.
The themes available for the store websites are generic, plain, extraordinarily basic. Nothing about these templates is exciting or grabbing, and would most likely lose a shopper’s intrigue quickly. And what’s worse, the availability to go above and beyond what Cafe Commerce has to offer is not entirely out of reach.
There is the possibility to preform personal coding (Design > Advanced) with a red warning that this part of the design is for “CSS Ninjas only!” Meaning: the potential to build your website using CSS coding is still very limited and basic while using Cafe Commerce.
Overall, Cafe Commerce only offers a small window of opportunity to create a fully-functioning and appealing online store. When online stores first began to make an appearance, these website designs would have been considered advanced and top-notch. Now, there is much more possibilities to make your store look interesting and navigational without the need for these simplistic templates.
Some things are just better left to the CSS Ninjas.
On July 13th, 2011 the NY Magento Meetup Group gathered together at Hara Partners’ office to talk about Flexible Checkout system.
In case if you missed our last meetup, here is a quick synopsis of what we discussed:
Flexible Checkout
Issues with Magento checkout:
Too tightly packaged
Time consuming to make changes
With our new Flexible Checkout system:
Each checkout step is separate
More flexible
Hours not wasted
Keeps security intact
Example Benefits:
Add coupon/promotion codes
Add store credit
Add policies and agreements
And more!
Stay tuned as we continue to release updates and news on the Flexible Checkout system and join us for more meetups on similar topics!
We set out to hiring Magento developers by attending:
The Silicon Alley Talent Fair took place at the 69th Regiment Armory on a warm NYC day of June 15th.
Hara Partners was joined by over 150 other companies to scout and pull talent that showed up at the fair.
And the turn out was not a disappointment with over 60 great interviewees in this ‘speed dating’ scenario!
Vernon and Shanel represented Hara Partners at the Armory.
To keep Vernon and Shanel going for the crazy and fun full-day event, SATF offered food, drinks & beer, ping pong tournaments, and great music. Thank you SATF!
“the recent surge of entrepreneurial activity in New York has created a surge in hiring.
Now is the time to join some of New York’s most creative and industrious minds to bring the next wave of computer products and services to the forefront of daily use.
Join us on June 16th at the Armory for a Startup Talent Fair, where
you’ll have plenty of time to meet with exciting new startups and network with other talented individuals like yourself.”
Get a little karazy with drinks, dance, DJ, lounge,
& quasi-competitive ping pong tourney (for charity!)
Register for this event and all details now!
Once you are registered, you may then register for the after party!
Here’s a quick sample of a working with ‘what we’ve gots’. Pants didn’t fit quite right and budget was a concern.
Solution? Holla holla at us and we’ll work it.
Seriously, give us a call as we aim to please all of our clients.
In case of photo shoot emergency, break down our door!
OK… don’t really break down our door, but do come knocking like B.Moss Clothing Company when they had to do a few one-off shots of products that were missed in theirmain commercial shoot.
Fashion Tower Studios, wholly-owned by Hara Partners, shot model Marianna Tumasova for 2 tops and 1 accessory for B.Moss Clothing Company. It was a great session as the beautiful Marianna came in fresh with a super positive attitude…
I mean really, Marianna and the BMoss brand just looks wonderful on each other.
Check out our friends and make sure you mention us as a reference!
Hunter Dixon arrived at Fashion Tower Studios on Thursday, January 6th to shoot their upcoming lookbook. It was Hara Partners first photo shoot of the new year. Their beautiful warm summery outfits were a breathe of fresh air from the dreary rained soaked January day.
The session started in the late afternoon with Hara Partner’s own Vernon Fong and David Klewicki behind the lense snapping away.
Head designer Hunter Bell and her hard working staff kept the shoot rolling assisting in art direction and outfit changes.
The talented Kerry Crawford did an amazing hair and make-up job for the fresh faced model Caroline West. Both helped make the time constrained shoot a success with their skills and professionalism. Thanks to everyone for a great photo shoot to start off the new year!
On the evening of Wednesday January 11th Hara Partners held its first event of the new year by sponsoring a trunk sale for the fabulous Hunter Dixon clothing line. It was a night of shopping, desserts, and good music to cure the Wednesday “humpday” blues! The studio space at Fashion Tower Studios was packed with beautiful exclusive samples available for sale to the public. Many patrons trugged through the leftover blizzard snow and were well rewarded with savings up to 70% off!
Hara Partner client and good neighbor, Macaron Café stopped by and provided free samples of their delicious macaroons for the many hungry shoppers that steadily came through the doors throught the evening.
Hara Partners would like to thank Hunter Dixon, Macaron Café, and especially everyone who braved the inclement weather to make a great first event of the year! To learn more about future events sign up for our mailing list.
The New York chapter of the Magento Meetup group met on the evening of December 8, 2010. A frigid winter night did not keep away a well-received turn out of returning attendees along with a crop of new faces. From seasoned pros to entreprenuers, all arrived ready to share their knowledge and discuss possible solutions to their specific questions.
Hara Partners lead Project Manager and Software Architect, Mai Erne & Jun Zhao,
discussed differences of the Enterprise edition and the formatting of
Magento in the most efficient MVC (Model – View -Controller) hierarchy.
The lights went low and the knowledge was turned on.
Attendees left with a great perspective on the subject matter from a warm, programmer-friendly ambiance.
Our moderators are always conscious of the programming community and we welcome any ideas or suggestions.
Dont miss out on attending the next NY Magento Meet Up!
Visit and sign up at http://www.meetup.com/New-York-Magento-Group/ as we are always open for topic and workshop suggestions.