Adobe Commerce, engineered for education at scale.

What it doesMigrated products, customers, and orders off an end-of-life Magento 1 platform onto Adobe Commerce Cloud, validating the migration code and running roughly 110 regression scenarios across homepage, category, product, cart, search, and account flows.

Why from scratchThe legacy platform was past end-of-life. The migration had to preserve catalog, customers, order history, and SEO while moving onto a modern, supported, scalable foundation.

What it doesAuthorize.Net Customer Information Manager for tokenized card storage and PCI-compliant repeat purchasing across the storefront.

Why from scratchReturning learners and institutions re-enroll often. Tokenized card storage removes checkout friction without taking on card-data liability.

What it doesLets Extension staff place and pay for an order on a learner's behalf directly from the admin.

Why from scratchPhone and assisted enrollments are common in an education setting, so staff needed a first-class way to transact for a learner.

What it doesPenn State identity single sign-on so users authenticate once and carry that session across the ecosystem.

Why from scratchLearners move between Extension and other Penn State systems. One identity removes repeated logins and unifies the account.

What it doesSocial login and account linking to reduce registration friction for new learners.

Why from scratchA large share of visitors are first-time, anonymous users. Social sign-on lowers the barrier to creating an account and enrolling.

What it doesBidirectional sync of customers, orders, and products into Salesforce Sales Cloud and Marketing Cloud, unifying profile data that previously lived in separate systems.

Why from scratchEnrollment, CRM, and marketing data were fragmented. Connecting Adobe Commerce to Salesforce made the learner profile a single source of truth.

What it doesElasticsearch-powered site search and merchandising that returns relevant results across thousands of articles, courses, and webinars.

Why from scratchWith a content-and-commerce catalog this large, native search was not enough. Relevant, fast discovery directly drives enrollment.

What it doesFaceted filtering by education format, such as article, online course, webinar, workshop, or publication, so learners find the right modality fast.

Why from scratchExtension sells the same topic in many formats. Format became a first-class facet so a learner can choose how they want to learn.

What it doesCustom course and webinar product handling tied to Open edX, including the cart-level registration form and access-link key handling for webinars.

Why from scratchCourses and webinars are not standard products. They need registration data, access links, and an LMS handoff that off-the-shelf Magento does not provide.

What it doesA directory of Penn State Extension's county offices, one in each of Pennsylvania's 67 counties, with dedicated county detail pages.

Why from scratchExtension is a statewide, county-based network. The site had to map that structure so people can find and connect with their local office.

What it doesSelf-service interest and communication-preference management that feeds Marketing Cloud opt-ins.

Why from scratchLearners want control over what they hear about. Preference management keeps subscriptions compliant and relevant.

What it doesA custom mega-navigation and content-hub layout organizing free content, publications, courses, and events by topic.

Why from scratchA catalog this broad needs navigation that exposes depth without overwhelming. The mega-menu maps the topic hubs Extension is built around.

What it doesGoogle-API-backed address validation and type-ahead autocomplete at checkout and in the course registration form, extended to validate billing addresses and bypass non-US addresses for digital-only buyers.

Why from scratchBad addresses break fulfillment and reporting. Inline validation and autocomplete cut errors at the point of entry, including places native Magento does not validate.

What it doesEnabled Adobe Commerce Advanced Reporting across all stores and built a custom admin Purchase Order report (order number, date, payment method, PO number, line items, totals, CSV export) filtered to PO orders.

Why from scratchInstitutional buyers pay by purchase order, and finance needed clean reporting on those orders that native reports did not provide.

What it doesA custom credit-based purchasing model: companies and individuals buy redeemable credits in tiers, pay for courses, workshops, and webinars with credits or a credit-plus-card split, share credits with colleagues, and track balance and history, with full storefront, admin, email, and API support.

Why from scratchOrganizations wanted to pre-purchase training in bulk and distribute it. We built the credit currency, the redemption and sharing flows, and the admin and reporting around a new enrollment model.

What it doesAn ongoing program to make the catalog discoverable by AI crawlers and answer engines: semantic HTML and schema, an llms.txt implementation, robots rules for AI bots, and validation against AI overviews and assistant browsing.

Why from scratchDiscovery is shifting to AI answer engines. Structuring the content so assistants can find and cite it protects Extension's reach as search changes.