CostaDelHome / EXISTING RAILS APP + NEW FEATURES

More flexible property management. Zero downtime

Enabled multiple managers per property with zero-downtime data and relationship migrations, preserving the existing app and user experience.

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CostaDelHome: Added advanced functionality to the CRM

ClientCostaDelHome

Work deliveredCRM Development & Data Migration

Business resultZero · Migration downtime

THE EXISTING PRODUCT

More flexible property management, without downtime

CostaDelHome’s existing developer was busy with other work, so the team needed help delivering changes to its live Rails application. We stepped in to get the work moving, bringing Stripe and performance expertise alongside the technical maturity needed to migrate relationships safely and preserve existing users’ workflows.

We expanded CostaDelHome's CRM so a property could be associated with multiple managers instead of just one. Data and relationship migrations happened without downtime or disruption to existing users.

Keep your product moving with new features in the existing Rails application. A staged relationship migration preserved the business’s data and kept the CRM available to its users.

THE BUSINESS CHALLENGE

CRM relationship migration for CostaDelHome

The CRM needed to support more flexible relationships between properties and managers. We changed the single-manager selection into a multiple-manager workflow while preserving existing assignments and keeping the production application available.

What needed to change

A property could have only one selected manager. Supporting multiple managers required changes to the database, application associations and selection interface in a live system that existing users depended on.

CRM Development & Data Migration for CostaDelHome

THE WORK WE DELIVERED

Improve the product. Keep the business moving

01
Migrate relationships incrementally
We rolled out the migration incrementally: introduced the new relationship structure, kept old and new data structures in sync, and migrated existing assignments before switching the application to the new associations.
02
Switch the interface and retire old associations
We replaced the single-selection interface with multiple checkboxes, then removed the old relationship structure after the application had transitioned. Read the step-by-step migration article.

CostaDelHome: delivered crm development & data migration

VALUE FOR THE BUSINESS

Added advanced functionality to the CRM: the results

Migration downtimeZero

Managers per propertyMultiple

Disruption to existing usersZero

The CRM now supports multiple managers per property. Existing data and relationships were migrated with zero downtime and no disruption to existing users, allowing the business to add functionality while keeping its production application running.

THE ENGINEERING DETAILS

More about the work

From Single drop-down to Multiple check-boxes

A step-by-step approach to changing database relationships and selection interfaces in a live Rails application.

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