IPL Biologicals E-Commerce
IPL Biologicals WooCommerce store and corporate site on a custom Oxygen Builder theme, built by Mohit Goyal in 2023 and maintained on a retainer since 2025, including the Grow Organic sub-brand.
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About the project
IPL Biologicals (International Panaacea Ltd) makes biofertilisers and biopesticides. It needed one site that worked as a company website and an online shop for its agri products. The product range covers bio-fertilisers, bio-fungicides, bio-insecticides and bio-stimulants, plus B2B lines. The audience splits in two: farmers who browse on mobile and distributors who research on desktop. The site had to serve both from one catalogue, carry the company's corporate content, careers, media and knowledge-centre sections, and sell online. The main build ran from September to December 2023, with maintenance through April 2024. Since 2025 the marketing team has needed a developer on call for a steady stream of changes, which is the retainer. I built the site on WordPress and WooCommerce with a custom theme on Oxygen Builder and Advanced Custom Fields (ACF). It has customised product pages that read well on mobile and desktop, category landing pages, a careers section with job listings, media and knowledge-centre sections, promotional coupons and on-page SEO. On the retainer I added phone-OTP (one-time code) login for customers and admins over SMS, bulk MRP updates from a sheet and a replacement catalogue PDF. I published News posts for the Mitsui and AgSmart Philippines distribution partnership and the Bernard Blum Awards 2025 bronze. Stock rules mark fertiliser SKUs above 1 kg out of stock while keeping size dropdowns uniform, so sizes show as unavailable rather than vanishing. I also fixed the homepage banner autoplay, repaired the video tutorials page and added Hindi tutorials for a multilingual section. I restored order emails after the company moved from Gmail to Outlook, fixed WooCommerce Analytics order reporting, supported the Amazon Seller Central listing and built an international business page with a world map. In 2025 I also launched Grow Organic, IPL's consumer urban-gardening sub-brand, inside the same store. From the marketing team's Figma brief I built the landing page at iplbiologicals.com/grow-organic and the Neem Kavach product page on Oxygen Builder, with the sub-brand's own logo, colours and menu tab, fixed image specs so new products drop in without re-cropping, and an Amazon call to action. Building it inside the existing install kept orders, stock and admin in one place. The stack is WordPress, WooCommerce, Oxygen Builder, Advanced Custom Fields, PHP, SMS OTP and Amazon Seller Central. A custom theme on Oxygen was the right call for a catalogue where product pages differ by type and need structured fields rather than free-form layouts. SMS OTP login removed login friction for customers who mostly log in from a phone. The stock rule was implemented as a rule rather than by deleting variations, so the size dropdown stays uniform across products. No performance or traffic metrics were measured for this work. The marketing team can now update prices in bulk, publish news, manage stock by size, give customers and admins a phone login and track orders in WooCommerce Analytics, with a developer on retainer for the rest. The site is live at iplbiologicals.com. Need a developer on retainer for a WooCommerce store that keeps changing? Tell me what the backlog looks like and I will reply with a plan.