The old gift card balance check system was running on borrowed time ... for years. Each brand needed a way for customers to check their gift card balance on-page, providing a seamless user experience consistent with the rest of the site. Instead, all three brands were using a pop-up window from their gift card provider with minimal branding and styles because there was no way to access the vendor backend data. This looked bad, didn't provide a very unified user experience, and the code was managed separately; one did it one way, and another did it another way. Development nightmare to say the least.
Engineering a Unified, Secure API Proxy Module.
After switching gift card vendors to one that was able to provide a secure API, I engineered a custom Drupal module that obliterated the complexity. Instead of building three distinct clients and having to update the same functionality multiple times, I centralized the logic into a single, high-security API proxy. This approach not only slashed codebase redundancy by 66% but fundamentally changed how the client will manage future brand rollouts; moving them from a fragile setup to a near bulletproof architecture.
Multi-Brand Implementation
The core technical achievement; a single, secure Drupal module, powers the gift card balance check forms across all three distinct restaurant brands, guaranteeing uniform functionality and real-time results.
Personal Reflection
The real victory wasn't the code, to me, it was designing something that was robust, resuable, and self-contained it essentially manages itself. I walked away from this project knowing I had built a piece of architecture that won't just hold up, it will scale for years to come.
Do you need to tame a complex third-party API or unify multiple systems under Drupal? My specialty is building seamless, high-performance integrations that solve your business's biggest bottlenecks.