📚 KhannaBooks
Academic Publishing eCommerce Platform
Who We Built This For
Khanna Book Publishing Company Pvt. Ltd. was established in 1962 and has grown into one of India's premier academic and technical publishers. Their catalog covers engineering, science, and technology textbooks — many of which are AICTE-prescribed curriculum texts used across India's leading institutions including IITs and NITs. With 1 billion+ books in circulation and a 3-acre warehouse in Delhi, they are a trusted institution in Indian technical education.
What We Set Out to Build
KhannaBooks digitised Khanna Book Publishing Company — a premier Indian academic textbook publisher since 1962 — taking their catalog of thousands of engineering and technical titles fully online for the first time. The platform serves students, professors, and institutions across all of India in 9+ regional languages.
The store itself is built on WooCommerce, but the real complexity sat behind the scenes: migrating decades of catalog data with AICTE-prescribed and university-recommended tags intact, then layering WPML translation across nine regional languages so a student in Chennai or Kolkata could browse in their own language rather than English alone.
Beyond the storefront, two workflows that used to run entirely over phone and email moved online — colleges requesting bulk institutional pricing now get an automated quote instead of a back-and-forth email thread, and faculty requesting specimen review copies submit the request directly through the platform. An author portal closed the loop on the other side of the business, giving contributing authors visibility into manuscript status and royalties for the first time.
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India's most respected technical publisher had zero digital presence. Students couldn't discover or order books without visiting stores or calling offices. Institutional bulk orders from colleges were managed entirely over phone and email. The multilingual audience of 9+ states had no regional-language access to their own AICTE curriculum books.
A publisher with 60+ years of heritage and 1 billion+ books in circulation had zero digital presence
Institutional bulk orders from colleges and universities were managed entirely over phone and email
Students from 9 linguistic regions could only find books in English — a massive accessibility gap
The author manuscript submission and royalty process was paper-based with no online visibility
How We Tackled It
Requirements & Platform Selection
Analysed the 60-year catalog structure, institutional buying patterns, and multilingual requirements. Selected WooCommerce with WPML as the optimal stack.
Catalog Migration
Structured and migrated thousands of SKUs with full metadata, AICTE category tags, university-recommendation flags, and cover images.
Multilingual Implementation
Deployed WPML across 9 Indian regional languages with full content translation and language-based navigation.
Institutional Features
Built tiered bulk discount pricing with automated quote generation and a digital specimen copy request workflow for faculty.
Author Portal & Launch
Developed the author manuscript submission portal, integrated Razorpay + PayU payment gateways, and connected pan-India logistics partners.
What We Built
Full Catalog Store
Complete WooCommerce catalog with AICTE-prescribed, university-recommended, and emerging technology textbooks.
9-Language Support
WPML multilingual implementation across Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Assamese, and Malayalam.
Institutional Pricing
Tiered bulk discount system with automated quote generation for colleges and universities placing large orders.
Specimen Request System
Digital faculty examination copy request workflow — professors can request review copies directly from the platform.
Author Portal
Manuscript submission system with publication progress tracking and royalty visibility for contributing authors.
Payment & Logistics
Razorpay and PayU payment gateways integrated with pan-India logistics partners for nationwide student delivery.
Results That Speak for Themselves
Full Scope of Work
Built a full WooCommerce store with custom catalog supporting AICTE-prescribed and university-recommended textbooks
Implemented WPML multilingual support across 9 Indian languages (Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Assamese, Malayalam)
Developed tiered institutional pricing with automated bulk discount calculation and quote generation for colleges
Created an author portal for manuscript submission, publication progress tracking, and royalty visibility
Integrated Razorpay and PayU payment gateways with pan-India logistics partners for nationwide delivery
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