About Z9

Company

Z9 Digital was originally founded in 2006 as AllMerchants, LLC and later renamed to Z9 Digital, LLC in 2015.

Team

Allan Vest
Owner / Digital Architect

Computer Engineering degree from Michigan State University.
7 years as technical team leader and project manager working for web development agencies.
Started web development company specializing in ecommerce in 2004.
10 years as acting CTO with Sprocket Express building ecommerce order fulfillment platform.

Zeeshan Elahi
Senior Developer

Computer science degree.
Started working together in 2016.
17 years of experience.
Lead developer for Z9 Digital.
Performs system management and tech support.

Misson Statement / Philosophy

The roots of Z9 Digital are in building custom Enterprise level web applications.

Over the years we have specialized in building custom content management systems, training systems and e-commerce applications.

Our mission is to help companies leverage web technology to their advantage.

We are always "consultants first" and developers second.

Our philosophy is to work closely with our clients to build solutions that work for thier business.

We have systems that have been running for 15+ years.

History

2004
Built a tool called FastPitch that helped us quickly setup web servers so we could better better manage client web servers.

2006
Z9 Digital is officially founded. Z9 Digital specializes in building custom e-commerce sites.

2008-2016
Z9 Digital worked with a print company to build a system that spins up individually branded online catalog sites for each of their print customers.

2010
Z9 Digital builds our first company brand store site for a promotional product distributor.

2011-2020
Z9 Digital worked with an e-commerce fulfillment company to build a multi-channel order management system. The system harvests orders from hundreds of stores each hour, pushes the orders into an internal fulfillment system, and then updates the stores with current inventory and shipment information several times a day.

2011
Z9 Digital works with WIT (witinc.com) as part of the teams that builds and maintains the DWC Training site (dwctraining.com). The DWC Training site has helped 68K+ mental health workers in Detroit/Wayne county take over 3 million online courses required for job compliance.

2018
Z9 Digital focuses our e-commerce expertise on building a solution that can better manage company brand stores at scale. We start with a clean sheet of paper with a goal to design a system that can setup and manage hundreds of company brand stores.

2020
Z9 Digital pilots our "Z9 Commerce 2.0" software. This release includes a Multi-Channel Order Management System that allows for managing orders from multiple stores in one admin.

Detroit Wayne Integrated Health Network (DWIHN) goes lives using our "Z9 Engine" Content Management System.

2021
Z9 Digital releases a Site Management System that allows for quickly spinning up company brand stores, automatic generation of branded product images (virtuals), and automatic update of product availability and pricing across sites.

2022
Z9 Digital releases Popup Shop functionality to build Employee Reward sites.

Z9 Digital creates a 100% Do-It-Yourself site setup process eliminating the need for tech support when setting up a new site.

2023
Z9 Digital adds support for Promo Standards integration to automate product availability and pricing updates from suppliers.

Z9 Digital releases Server Automation Manager (SAM) as a license product to better manage web server setup, system documentation, application error alerts, backups, system monitoring, jobs, databases, and server/site inventory.

2024
Z9 Digital releases a "hosted" version of the Z9 Commerce system.

Remote First

Z9 Digital is headquartered in metro Detroit.

Because our clients are spread out across the country and the services we provide are hosted in the cloud, Z9 Digital has a "remote first" philosophy.

With today's online collaboration tools, our development team can work together in real time as long as they have a computer, a phone, and a reliable Internet connection.

Z9 Digital's "remote first" philosophy improves the balance between work and family for our team members and allows Z9 Digital access to a larger talent pool.

Sincerely,