Taking over a B2B ordering portal after the agency closed
An industrial parts distributor’s customers order through a web portal built by an agency that has shut down. The code lives in the agency’s accounts, errors are rising, and the framework is past end of support.
- Type
- Example project · sample data
- Stack found
- Angular 12, .NET 6, SQL Server
- Hosting
- Agency-owned Azure account
- Plan
- Review, stabilize, upgrade
Partsway and its data are samples created to show how a takeover like this would run. It is not a client project.
The week-two report
Access moved into the company’s accounts, and every risk listed with a severity and a plan.
Sample design · sample data
Get the keys back
- Code moved from the agency’s repository into the company’s GitHub
- Azure subscription and domain transferred
- Former agency accounts removed
- A database backup taken and a restore tested
Stop the bleeding
- Error monitoring added so problems are seen before customers report them
- Checkout timeouts and a silent price-import failure fixed
- The outdated payment API upgraded
- Deployment automated and written down
Upgrade without a rewrite
The portal moves to a supported framework one module at a time: catalog, orders, quotes, account. Each module is checked side by side with the old one before release, and the business keeps taking orders throughout.
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