GIT

Turning an informative website into a functional online marketplace with a focus on expansion and business growth.

contentauthor — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 10:03:03 +0000

Turning an informative website into a functional online marketplace with a focus on expansion and business growth. contentauthor Tue, 09/05/2023 - 10:03

How we designed a feature-rich e-commerce store, giving shape to an incomplete business motion.

Dubai

The client initialized our collaboration by joining our product discovery workshop to get their project analyzed from a technical as well as business standpoint. On assessing their specific requirements, our team proceeded to demonstrate their skills and expertise with respect to the same. The client decided to move forward with our team for the building of their website after being impressed by our technological expertise and e-commerce tactics.

A resolute marketplace for Beauty, Fitness & Wellness providers. It is the ideal online store to access the world of salons, spas, fitness centers, dental & dermatology clinics, trainers, instructors, and much more. They drive consumer value by offering unparalleled convenience and opportunities to save and earn in the beauty, fitness, and wellness industry.

The client contacted us during a product discovery phase where they asked us to conduct technical and business analysis for their online business. They aimed to build a structured and profitable website to help them reach their audience more effectively. Our expertise in E-commerce Strategy & implementation enabled us to suggest the development of a website with all the features of a mobile app. Owing to our technical proficiency, we transformed their project and helped the client achieve product-market fit.

Here's how we handled the challenges we encountered when working together and communicating constantly :

The client had envisioned revamping the category layers on their website, where the addition of category layers was not the only requirement. They also wanted to organize and declutter the existing categories. Keeping their preferences in mind, our team made constructive changes to the existing database. To achieve this, we had to alter the entire database structure, which was not an easy task.
We helped the client recognize the importance of customer opinions, which motivated them to include customer-oriented features in their website. Our team efficiently designed functionalities like an open customer forum, quick FAQs, blogs, reviews, and more. These features were aimed at keeping customers updated and inviting their valuable feedback.
Reasonably, there was a large flow of information on the store’s detail page. A large amount of data was being pulled from multiple pages concerning service details, staff details, product details, and more. To address this, our team designed a dedicated gallery in addition to videos. However, this resulted in the slow loading of the website. Our team intelligently rectified this and optimized the speed by focusing on parameters like lazy load, code optimization, and the posting of media on the S3 bucket.
The product listing and offer listing pages had to display a huge amount of information, which was mostly dynamic in nature. It largely depended on the parameters people put forth while searching for products or services. Our team did a stellar job optimizing the customer queries and providing the best details.
Handling the matrix for shop timings was not an easy task. It was a combination of shop opening and closing times, staff presence and absence, in addition to the number of orders placed. Our team dealt with this in a streamlined manner while also being extra mindful of slot management tactics.
Being a service-based product, it was vital to maneuver notifications and reminders for customers. We designed a mechanism that would update customers on upcoming events via email, SMS, and website notifications.
A seamless user experience is pivotal to any online business. To ensure a smooth user journey, our team developed three types of Search options for customers. We ensured search flexibility by enabling customers to search for single services, multiple services, or directly find their destination.
Initially, the creation of commission tiers was a static process. Admins were unable to create separate tiers for separate levels. We solved this problem once and for all by devising an option in the backend structure for adding and modifying commission tiers by admins. We also included editing and deleting options for the same. Our team was extremely careful not to have the edit and delete options affect existing orders.
The client wanted to incorporate a mechanism through which users would be able to gift services to their loved ones. For this, we started by creating a separate page where the user would be able to select the service category for their gift. This would redirect them to the landing page of the selected service category. The user is then supposed to select the service they wish to make a gift of and proceed to checkout. On checkout, the user would be asked for the details of the receiver, such as their name and contact information. Once the order is placed, the client's team would reach out to the receiver, inviting them to avail the service gifted to them.
Our knowledge of digital development enabled us to understand the significance of responsive web design, particularly for e-commerce companies. Recognizing the importance of having a mobile-first approach for an online marketplace, our team put extra emphasis on responsiveness.
The client's current website lacked SEO-friendly content and conformity with web standards. We made the decision to start from scratch in order to guarantee the same. As a result, they were able to obtain better search engine positioning and more leads.

Our team developed a respectable e-commerce website with improved functionality and responsiveness, perfectly adhering to the client's requirements while significantly exceeding their expectations. Here are some of the highlights of our partnership :

A quick, easy-to-use website that guarantees vendor and client retention.
An easy-to-use user interface and a smooth user journey.
Guaranteed compliance with the newest web standards and SEO friendliness.

We are grateful that our entire professional collaboration together allowed us to establish a solid working rapport with this client. The client made a wise decision to focus their energy and resources on marketing their website.

Beutics Testimonial

The client had an existing e-commerce website, which was extremely unrefined and more informative than it was functional. They also had an existing application for the same. However, the website and application lacked any substantial connection between them. They wanted to launch a sturdy and productive website for their business to reach their target audience more efficiently. Our Dedicated Teams supported the client’s proposal by leveraging our professional expertise in Web Development, UI Design and Implementation, E-Commerce Strategy & Implementation, Digital Design & Branding, and more.
Through a functioning e-commerce website, we eventually succeeded in turning the client's ideas into reality.

2+ years

Beutics Testimonial 2

Developing a website for an online marketplace is neither simple nor undemanding. Here are some challenges we ran through when working with the customer :

Adding and modifying the category layers in the backend structure.
Building a feature-rich website that values customer feedback.
Streamlining the complex structure of the store’s detail page.
Presenting a lot of information on the product listing and offer listing pages.
Dealing with the complex structure of shop timings.
Building the notifications option.
Handling the Advanced Search & Filter option.
Changing the structure of commission tiers.
Creating gifting options for services.
Ensuring a mobile-first approach.
Ensuring SEO-friendliness and web standard compatibility.

Heading

21% Boost in Conversion Rates

Outcome

We were able to help the client make a 21% jump in conversion rates.

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100+ Vendors Onboarded Till date

Outcome

Our robust strategies facilitated the onboarding and retention of more than 100 vendors to date.

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999+ Acquired Customers

Outcome

Our delivery of a seamless e-commerce store has facilitated the acquisition of more than 999 customers.

API & Microservices

Cloud & DevOps

DXP Strategy & Consulting

E-Commerce Strategy & Implementation

Product Design Strategy

Product-Market Fit

UI Design & Implementation

Web Development

Amazon AWS

Browserstack

CSS

GIT

HTML

jQuery

Laravel

Postman

Beauty, Lifestlye and Healthcare

Creating a social media center that integrates a database with facts and figures about films and TV shows.

contentauthor — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 08:14:00 +0000

Creating a social media center that integrates a database with facts and figures about films and TV shows. contentauthor Tue, 09/05/2023 - 08:14

How we built an application to divulge information on movies and TV shows while facilitating communication between fans of entertainment.

India

The client contacted us to transform his undeveloped idea into an MVP. We performed a product discovery workshop where we showcased our proficiency in Product Design Strategy and Web Development to better comprehend the client's requirements. We illustrated our thoughts with a wireframe that we used to present them. We highlighted the significance of a seamless user journey by drawing on our expertise in MVP Development and Performance Optimization. The client was highly impressed by this and decided to work with us to bring their ideas to life as a result.

A collection of cast and crew listings, story descriptions, and ratings for films and TV episodes that can be accessed online. They set out to build a comprehensive application to solve the WHAT, WHERE, & WHEN to WATCH conundrum for OTT and movie consumers. They even plan to provide a unique forum for discussion on films and TV shows. This application was created with the goal of assisting users in selecting the appropriate entertainment. Additionally, they aim to be the best platform in India and the world for connecting fans with the same enthusiasm for a particular movie or television show.

The client's initial idea was for an OTT guide that would provide information about films and other entertainment programs. They also intended the design to represent a social media platform where users could connect and communicate about these films and TV episodes. Our technical expertise and our talented design team worked together to make the client's dream a reality.

By working together and being generally engaged, we helped them overcome a number of business obstacles. Among them, the following stand out:

The project's most crucial component was data management. The enormous database related to the entertainment sector was the main worry. We took care of this by steadily and methodically extracting information from the IMDb (Internet Movie Database). The inspection of X-Rated films and television programs followed. The main problem was those motion pictures and television programs rated "X" in India but not in other nations. As a result, it was challenging to filter the data that was being fed into our platform. To effectively address this, our group came up with the concept of including nation-specific criteria and filters.
Our project required a sizable server to handle the volume of data associated with it. Our experienced staff initially recognized the impracticality of real-time data import. To fix this, we divided the data importation procedure into two phases, each of which dealt with the data on the listing page and the detail page individually.
Due to the numerous factors at play, we understood the significance of controlling the load time for the property, listing, detail, and timeline pages. We used the following fixes for each page in question.—

Homepage: Here, information was supposed to be imported based on many criteria, including top-rated films, recently released films, and more. The lengthy loading time of the page was adversely affected by the abundance of films and entertainment programs. This problem was fixed by limiting the number of videos that are fetched to the site for each parameter to 20. We added a lazy load to maintain speed and enable a simple user experience.

Listing Page: The search results were excessive, even with our option for advanced filters. This forced us to present the data in 20-item batches, displaying the following batch on each scroll. Our goal pace was attained, and by keeping customers from becoming irritated, we successfully increased client retention.

Detail Page: As the name implies, this page supports a lot of information, such as movie information, comments, reviews, etc. Actions like "Watchlist," "Seen," "Book Tickets," and others were also featured. The main reason for the longer load time was information on "Related Movies ."To combat this, we included section-wise lazy loading, and batch data fetching.

Timeline Page: The problem with this page was also resolved via lazy loading. We avoided compromising real-time data by displaying fixed comments underneath each article.

Our team paid particular attention to developing a strong review system to provide all user feedback in a structured way. We proceeded with a bifurcation in accordance with the reviewers because the reviews were more challenging and uncomplicated than we had thought. We now have four categories: "You," "Everyone," "Friends," and "Critics." Here, "You" highlighted user-provided reviews, "Everyone" highlighted all user-provided reviews collectively, "Friends" highlighted user-provided reviews from friends and connections, and "Critics" highlighted user-provided reviews from movie critics.
Our technological know-how and design expertise allowed us to finish the client's OTT guide platform development within the allotted time frame. We developed a social platform with the client's specifications in mind, allowing users to have individual profiles, followers, and more. By creating specific custom categories like "Topics of the Day," "Trending Movies," etc., we made it easier for the information to be shown in the right way. Additionally, we incorporated certain automated features like "Top Reviewer of the Month," which would encourage user interaction and support long-term retention.

By creating the OTT guide solution exactly how they imagined it, we successfully assisted the customer in turning their idea into reality. Some of the highlights are as follows:

A smooth application providing information about films and TV shows for entertainment fans.
A user-friendly app with smooth navigation and quick loading.
A social media platform that enables individuals to connect around a shared interest in entertainment.

An established and trustworthy professional relationship with the client was made possible by our cooperation. Major changes were postponed in order to concentrate on finding a Product-Market Fit. Our team has been given the responsibility of managing Continuous Monitoring and Performance Optimization in the interim.

Flicksbuddy (App) Testimonial

The client had envisioned an online application that would act as a guide to OTT platforms for users and enthusiasts of the entertainment industry. They sought to create a digital app that would enable users to choose what movie or TV show to watch and the best time and OTT platform for doing so. Another goal was a safe environment where movie aficionados or other fans of entertainment may interact and connect, similar to social media platforms. We were successful in creating the client's suggested product thanks to our proficiency in DXP Strategy and Consulting, MVP Development, UI Design and Implementation, and Web Development.

1 year of Core Development followed by Application Development

Flicksbuddy (App) Testimonial 2

Every company encounters unique difficulties that could decrease its effectiveness or responsiveness. Here are a few instances of challenges we had while working on this project and overcame.

Systematically collecting, organizing, and presenting information.
Importing big amounts of data without impeding user experience.
Developing and maintaining the homepage, listing page, detail page, and timeline page load times.
Displaying reviews in an organized manner.
Creating a complete, feature-rich application within the allotted time frame.

Heading

38.5% Increase in Customer Engagement

Outcome

User engagement increased by 38.5% as a result of our emphasis on building a social area for them.

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18.2% User Retention

Outcome

User retention increased significantly as a result of our focus on providing an ideal user experience.

Heading

Audience Expansion

Outcome

Our social media platform helped the customer significantly increase the number of audiences, which was very beneficial.

API & Microservices

Continuous Monitoring

Dedicated Teams

Digital Design & Branding

Digital Prototyping

DXP Strategy & Consulting

Mobile App Development

MVP Development

Performance Optimization

Product Design Strategy

Product-Market Fit

Support & Maintenance

UI Design & Implementation

Web Development

Amazon AWS

Browserstack

Drupal 8

Flutter

GIT

Postman

Media, Entertainment & Publishing

Designing a Loyalty Rewards Application to Attract and Retain painters while organizing the business database.

contentauthor — Mon, 01 May 2023 05:16:44 +0000

Designing a Loyalty Rewards Application to Attract and Retain painters while organizing the business database. contentauthor Mon, 05/01/2023 - 05:16

How we developed a Product Design Strategy to create an internal application to expand the client's business through a Loyalty Rewards program.

India

Originally, the client approached us to conduct a detailed interpretation of their business idea. Our team held a discovery workshop to evaluate the client's needs and demonstrate our analytical expertise. Our extensive professional experience, in addition to the proven capabilities of our competent business analyst, positively affected the client's impression of us, which pushed them to partner with us for the development of their loyalty program.

A company that is known in the paint industry for its quality and innovative products. They offer painting services for your homes that are well-known on a worldwide scale without negatively impacting the environment or our planet. In this age of modernization, they yearn to provide their customers with paint products of the highest quality available that are well worth the money spent on them. Therefore, they pursued the best painting options available, blending foreign know-how with Indian heartedness to find the ones that best suited Indian climatic conditions and customers. It goes without saying the clients were adamant on broadening their business horizons through a rewards program for the painters.

The client already had an offline coupon system in place when they approached us for this project. However, the data was stored in such a scattered manner that their primary purpose was not being fulfilled. This pushed them to come up with the idea of building an online loyalty rewards program to keep track of their painters while attracting them more efficiently. In addition to the contractors, we had to acknowledge the importance of the distributors as well.

After much deliberation, our team designed a mechanism to divide the cities where the business was operative according to specific Tiers. Based on the city's production and sales level, it would be assigned a tier. This helped us build an effective and customized loyalty system.

We supported the client in overcoming several business challenges thanks to our collaboration and regular communication. Here's how we approached it—

We began the development process by building a complete mechanism for the end-to-end handling of coupons. We designated the generation of coupons to the backend structure while attaching the scanning of coupons to the front end. Initial testing showed issues with the accessibility of the scanning option as most of the workers involved were unskilled. To address this, our team built additional options for the manual entering of coupons.
We were required to designate a single button for the "Log In" and the "Sign Up" option, and we achieved this without jeopardizing the response time of the application. Again, we enlisted the power of our skilled developers to take care of this. They handled it proficiently and without letting the speed hinder the user experience.
At first, we proceeded with the APIs suggested by the client itself. However, that turned out to be inefficient, and the response time was longer. The importance of an appropriate API was attached to the procurement of Aadhaar information. This prompted us to conduct in-depth research to select the best-suited API, which we then suggested to the client and acquired approval.
We automated the collection of data when building the "Sign Up" process and displayed the final calculated value in the backend structure. Additionally, we verified KYC information and clarified signup points before submission. This effectively prevented data duplication and the submission of false information.
We designed a system that would classify the cities into tiers according to their production levels and sales. The reasoning behind this was to provide more scanning options and retain more contractors. Our team efficiently executed the development of this system, thereby promoting retention levels.
The client required us to build a mechanism to renew and bring the loyalty points to zero yearly without influencing the previously stored transactional information. Therefore, we designed the system to carry this out effectively every financial year.
Our development team integrated real-time payment gateways for the redemption of reward points. We also incorporated a capping mechanism that would make sure that redemption is only possible for reward points above 200. According to our system, contractors were issued immediate and upfront payments, while dealers could raise requests for the allocation of credit notes. Here, credit notes were issued to dealers in correspondence with every redemption.
Considering the importance of coordinating dealers and contractors, we designed two different tables, one for the benefit of each. The first table would comprise a comprehensive list of all available dealers. The second table was dedicated to all the relevant information with respect to transactions conducted by the contractors mapped under each dealer. We also added features like CSV and filters to alleviate the admin's workload further. We even designed a "Bulk Update" option for the admin to update multiple transaction statuses in bulk easily.
Considering the large amount of confidential and personal data involved, it became crucial to ensure optimal security. For this, we created separate admin roles where limited people would be able to access confidential information. In addition to working with highly secure encryptions, we even displayed certain extra-sensitive information to the admins in an encrypted format.
In addition to wonderfully incorporated watermarks, our team added numerous design components to ensure a pleasant user journey. We conducted thorough consultation and strategizing to deliver an exceptional user experience. We also made sure to run beta testing before launching the application.

Our team met all of the client's requirements and significantly surpassed their hopes in delivering a comprehensive and valuable loyalty rewards application. Some of the highlights of our collaboration are as follows—

An impeccable and speedy application with a myriad of features.
A user-friendly interface for an effortless user experience.
A solid, protected website that cannot be compromised in terms of data security.

As a result of our diligent collaboration, we value being able to build a reliable working relationship with this client. Pleased and satisfied with the end result delivered by our team, the client requested our additional services in maintaining the integrity of the application.

Ozell Testimonial

The client recognized the chaotic and haphazard nature of the painter's market with regard to the Indian paint industry. This made them want to build an online loyalty system on top of their offline coupon system that was already in place. In addition, they wanted to expand their business and include more workers through coupons and loyalty rewards. Keeping this in mind, they approached our team with the notion of developing an online application that would help them grow their database and expand their business. Our technical proficiency and professional experience enabled us to recognize their particular requirements and build a program to help the client connect with their painters and reward them with various offers to further advance their business.

9 months of core development, followed by on-demand feature enhancements

Ozell Testimonial 2

Businesses often encounter a few difficulties as they embark on their digital development journeys. Here are some issues that surfaced during our cooperation—

Developing a complete solution for scanning and generating coupon codes.
Expediting the building of a single button for both "Log In" and "Sign Up."
Using third-party API to get aadhaar information and conduct verification.
Ensuring that bonus points are handled automatically in frontend development and manually in backend development.
Dividing cities per production and sales levels to offer multiple scanning options which would help retain more contractors.
Renewing reward points every year without affecting previous transactional information.
Incorporating two types of payments–immediate payments and credit notes.
Building a mechanism for the release of credit notes for the dealers based on their respective cities.
Ensuring an optimum level of security considering the amount of confidential information involved.
Delivering a speedy and seamless user experience.

Heading

25% boost in contractor’s database

Outcome

Our online loyalty program helped the client expand their contractor's database by 25%.

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10000 Points Redeemed

Outcome

The reward points program witnessed the redemption of a whopping 10000 points.

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20% increase in dealer retention

Outcome

We were able to enhance dealer retention by 20%, owing to our constant and robust strategies.

API & Microservices

Content Development & Marketing

Digital Design & Branding

DXP Strategy & Consulting

Mobile App Development

Product Design Strategy

Product Scaling

Product-Market Fit

UI Design & Implementation

Amazon AWS

Browserstack

Drupal 8

Flutter

GIT

Postman

Construction & Manufacturing

Design and development of a blockchain-based crypto currency platform

admin — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 22:03:37 +0000

Design and development of a blockchain-based crypto currency platform admin Tue, 01/10/2023 - 22:03

Design and development of a blockchain-based crypto currency platform with sophisticated AML/KYC mechanism & an advanced translation interface

Fintech

Netherlands, UK, Germany

Deep blockchain integration

Complex banking integration

Automated AML/KYC verification

Backend development

Frontend development

Product strategy

UI/UX development

Drupal 8

Sum&Sum KYC

BUNQ Integration

ARDOR Blockchain

Docker

Digital Ocean Droplets

Browserstack

Bitbucket

We got introduced to this project right from the product innovation stage, when the client team was still brainstorming and finalizing the product concepts based on customer needs, concept testing, and market research. We started with a single page information website development, and gradually came on board as technical consultant team for the product. We were selected after several rounds of meetings, and after the client was convinced that we can not only execute the initial requirement, which was a simple task, but we shall be able to provide an in-depth technical consultation and can act as a technical expert during the upcoming complex development phases. And indeed, we perfectly fulfilled the expectation. Over next 2 years, we remained a steady technical partner, and oversaw the project from a simple one page site, to a fully funded growing startup in the blockchain space.

The client represents a group of real estate professionals and blockchain enthusiasts with multiple years of experience in real estate financing, real estate fund structuring and project development. The company was founded in 2016 in Netherlands, and they expanded from a 2 member team to a 36 member team in about 5 years. They have raised several rounds of funding and continue to scale up their business and have since then expanded to other geographies like US, UK, Germany, Australia and New Zealand.

The project is being developed as a advanced blockchain-based crypto currency platform. As the assets are created on the blockchain, they will of course be 100% transparent and liquid. The childchain decentralises the trade of assets and places rental agreements, purchase agreements, property management tasks and more on the blockchain. Through this website, a user can create his/her account and buy tokens and enter in to the world of Crypto currency market. The user can also earn referrals by introducing others to this platform, by providing them with his/her unique referral link. Moreover, product is underwritten by a portfolio of property assets generating an income and ensuring the future development and maintenance of the platform.

Phase I

The purpose of this phase was to get us a basic platform.The main site was to be designed and then followed by a dashboard. Following that basic registration and AML / KYC procedures needed to be set up.

Design of The Front-end Site and The Back-end Platform

The main challenge was to design an extremely impressive landing page. The client was concerned because they needed to put in and convey a lot of information, but they didn't want to make the design boring. He wanted to make it extremely appealing and trendy, while not losing out on the opportunity to display the necessary information. Our designing team did an excellent job on this, and after a lot of deliberation, discussion, and going back and forth, finally, we came up with a design that was appealing, interactive, and informative. Next began the dashboard design. This needed to be simple, easy flowing, and readable without too flashy elements and complications. Our designing team worked tirelessly on this and was able to come up with a great layout. This would be modified time and again in the coming days, as more and more sections would be built.

User Registration & Initial Steps

The main target at this point was to get people to start registering as soon as possible. We needed to have 2 registration types, company, and individual. Each of them will have a separate set of fields to fill out later on. As soon as users register, a verification link would be sent over through email. Once confirmed, they would log in and set a password. As soon as the password is set, they would be asked to do mobile verification (this would be changed later on in favor of 2FA). This was a mandatory step and users would not be allowed to navigate elsewhere without completing this. SMS code would be sent to their mobile number and the user needed to add the code and validate it. Once done, users would be redirected to their dashboard and asked to be AML/KYC.

Support Ticketing System

The next very important step was to make users submit their AML / KYC. But before that, we needed an in-depth support ticketing system, since the AML/ KYC submission and approval would be tied to this. We built this system from the ground up and implemented every single thing that was needed as per plan for this AML / KYC procedure, as well as for its general functioning. This included the admin tools like statistics on the ticket movement and an in-depth status system for easy manipulation of the submitted tickets. Once the registration was live, the client foresaw that this will be very crucial for his data team and we needed to make this absolutely flawless.

AML / KYC Procedure

Finally, it’s the last main bit for Phase I - AML / KYC Procedure. First of all, this would have 3 stages - Clearance Level I, II, and III. Each has an extensive number of fields. The users would submit for one Clearance Level and then the admin would be able to review, approve, reject or request a change, based on what they have submitted. If any change was requested, then users would be notified and they would have to re-submit the documentation. Once approved of one clearance level, users can apply for the next clearance and so on. This entire process was tied to the support ticketing system and the entire system was a pain to build and test. But we were really amazed how good it turned out to be, once this was all completed, and people started to use it.

Phase II

The purpose of this phase was to build ourselves some very necessary tools before actually starting to implement ITO and Pre ITO features which were next in line. The three main extensive requirements for this were an in-depth translation system, a solid notification system, and an extensive referral system.

Translation Mechanism Enhancement

With registrations flowing in from all over the world, thanks to the client's ambitious marketing efforts, we soon had users from almost 120 countries. With this, came the need to be able to translate the site into all possible languages. And this was not one man's job. The client wanted to appoint translators from various countries who would translate everything in the site to that language - website content, document links like pitch deck and white paper, email contents, etc. Going forward this needs to be extended to other things that are built like a newsletter, order form, etc. We looked at Drupal's core translation system. Though it was an excellent base, it was nothing compared to what was needed in order to achieve this. We understood that we need to come up with an extremely creative and robust solution by using what was available and then building the remaining on top of it. After months of work, we did it, and it was really a proud moment for the entire team. We have been using that system everywhere for the last 8 months and it's functioning perfectly. With almost 110 translators using the system every day, it is capable of translating each new content into hundreds of different languages.

Newsletter & Notification System

Next in the line was the development of an in-depth notification and newsletter system. The client wanted to build this system from the grounds up in order to be able to send newsletter notifications to all its registered users, which by now, in just a span of a few months has grown to over 40,000. He wanted to send almost 2 batches of newsletters daily which means almost 80,000 emails going out. He wanted to also achieve a send-out rate of 20,000 per hour. After due research, we agreed to use the Amazon SES service as SMTP. We were already using AWS for hosting and this served as a perfect fit. We did extensive coding for the entire newsletter system ensuring seamless use by the client's data team. We also had to make sure that they could create newsletters and easily choose through the interface the target recipient groups based on the wizard and then send the newsletter out. We used the concept of a multi concurrency queue in this case and used it as a Drush command. Another mission well accomplished!

Referral Programme

The next and last bit, before we could move ahead with the ITO and pre ITO sale set up was the implementation of an in-depth referral program. Even though the client's marketing campaigns have been super successful, he really wanted to push the pedal and wanted to spread out as much as possible. One great way of doing this was an extensive referral program. The referral program would work by giving a unique referral link to potential users and once other users registered using that link, certain tokens would be awarded as a referral bonus. Once the blockchain would go live, users would be able to withdraw these tokens. The referral program though looks simple outwardly. However, behind the scene, we coded two other major aspects of it. One was an in-depth statistics report which would show which referrer referred how many users and then charts showing per country and per timeframe divisions, so that client's backend team would be able to track the progress and take various corrective measures. And last but not the least, we needed to devise an in-depth mechanism of withdrawal mechanism for the amount that users got. We did solid foundation work for this but postponed it for later as we realized this would be used more only after Pre ITO and ITO sales.

Phase III

Pre ITO and ITO sales mechanisms needed to be coded, so users could actually purchase tokens.

Asset Creation and Sub-account Creation

We detailed out the entire flow and then started with the asset creation steps. Though initially, only asset needed to be created, but for later, this would be used by others to create their own assets. Hence it was important to get this foundation right. We also needed to set up the approval process of this. Finally through the implemented mechanism we created. With asset creation, we needed to create concept for sub accounts. So in a nutshell, the total coin offering would be broken down into sub accounts, like Pre ITO, ITO etc and then a price would be attached to it. Some sub accounts were created which was not sellable, and only admin could transfer tokes from and to that sub account. These were all accompanied by detailed logs , support tickets and email integration.

Order Forms

The next step was to set up order forms where users could purchase the tokens. This needed an in depth currency conversion mechanism we we implemented a 3rd party API for this. This also needed a dynamic price switcher, as the sell was on, from pre ITO to ITO Phase I to ITO Phase II and so on, the prices of the tokens would change and the pay out needed to be calculated dynamically. This involved huge amount of complexity and an extensive handling of cub cases that branched out as we were going forward with the flow. Finally, after quite a few months of extensive effort all were sotted, and we finally made Pre ITO live, which was a huge success. Son ITO phases were launched and they were success as well.

Phase IV (ongoing)

This is the most important phase. Now that people have purchased tokens and all going well, we are in the process of connecting the system to the blockchain. The client entered into an agreement with ARDOR and we would be implementing the ARDOR API. Starting from waller creation to node handlers all will he handled through the API. Extensive work is in progress regarding this, and we are hopeful in coming days this will be released out to public.

We have overseen the project right from its inception days when this was just a pen and paper concept. And today, the portal has almost 85,000 users and has sold exceptionally well, for its pre-ITO phases and ongoing ITO phases. Needless to say, this has been a very strong bond with the client and their team and we are still growing strong. Just like any big task, we have had our share of challenges, but together, with hard work, dedication, talent, and clear communication, we have kept moving forward. We continue to develop the upcoming phases and maintain the portal.

The project was concluded with staggering success. As of now, we shall be in charge of maintaining the site. We are already developing the next big plan for this project, which is an extensive fundraising & investing platform. This crowdfunding platform will be used to raise funds for property investment and all the complex will be handled on the platform. The development roadmap is approximately 2 years but will include phased releases.

Maxcrowdfund Testimonial

From the initial days of the project, the client relied deeply on our knowledge of the blockchain and technical competence in general, and we participated in the product conceptualization and creation of an effective development roadmap. We oversaw this project from a simple one page information website, to an advance portal with deep blockchain integration. Our technical expertise, in-depth blockchain knowledge and rational planning resulted in accelerated user registration, smooth backend operation & effective translation interface for global market penetration.

2.5 years, ongoing

Maxcrowdfund Testimonial II

This project was not a simple one-dimensional project. It had multiple layers and staged rollout plans. The initial goal of the project was to set up a basic platform for people to register and put in all their details, complete and submit KYC, and then be able to browse some data like properties, charities, etc. They also get access to the dashboard where they show them the key matrices. At this point, the client planned to start in-depth and extensive advertising campaigns reaching out to as many users as possible across the globe and get them on board. For this, they needed an email newsletter campaign builder, capable of sending 20,000 emails per day, based on customized templates and selecting recipients based on certain criteria. Also, they needed an extensive translation system, which was simply not possible with Drupal's native translation interface, though it definitely was a good base. Next in line was an in-depth referral system. The client wanted to further reach out and lure users to refer others who would then join the platform using the referral.

Referral benefits were provided in the form of tokens that users were able to withdraw when the currency went live. While these things were happening and the user registering and referral program was becoming more and more successful day by day, we started to work on the main aspect of the site - the token order sell. The Pre ITO and ITO phases were upcoming and we allocated a section of the team to dedicatedly work on these aspects. We devised a well-thought-out sell procedure based on extremely complicated conditions and restrictions. Pre ITO arrived and ITO arrived, both a huge hit. Next up, was the blockchain integration which is at present underway. We are discussing the architecture and integrating the ARDOR API for this and making steady progress day by day. In addition, there is constant monitoring work going on behind the scene and a section of our team is steadily working on making small fixes and maintenance polish-ups, ensuring the site remains perfect and performant.

Heading

85,000 registered users

Outcome

In a very short time, the number of registered users reached it's peak, and that to with a very less marketing budget allocation.

Heading

ITO phases subscribed in days

Outcome

The pre-ITO and ITO phases were subscribed in days, much faster than the planned stipulated timeline for each subscription phase.

Heading

High Customer Engagement

Outcome

Overall, the portal has shown high customer engagement and positive feedbacks from the users aollected through surveys and feedbacks.

API & Microservices

Cloud & DevOps

Continuous Monitoring

Enterprise Drupal Development

Incident Management

Minor Enhancements & Bug Fixes

MVP Development

Performance Optimization

Product Design Strategy

Product Scaling

Product-Market Fit

Support & Maintenance

Team Augmentation

UI Design & Implementation

UX Consulting & Audit

Web Development

Apache SOLR

Browserstack

CSS

Docker

Drupal 9

GIT

Headless Drupal

HTML

JIRA

JMeter

jQuery

Kubernetes

MySQL

Postman

Selenium

Vue.js

Fintech & BFSI

Implementation of an online portal for shipment & transportation company

admin — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 21:57:37 +0000

Implementation of an online portal for shipment & transportation company admin Tue, 01/10/2023 - 21:57

Implementation of an online portal for shipment & transportation company for end-to-end job management and advanced Quickbooks integration

Logistics & Transportation

Australia, New Zealand

Complete end-to-end shipment order management and fulfilment mechanism implementation

Intricate price calculation based on weight and size of shipment

Barcode scanning mechanism for orders

Solutions design

Backend development

Frontend development

Drupal 8

Quickbooks integration

Amazon AWS

Apache SOLR

Browserstack

We were referred to this client by one of our past clients, who had an extremely positive experience with us. But nevertheless, he did a detailed review of our past case studies and technical capabilities. A series of meetings were set up, and finally we were able to convince him and his partners to engage with us.

Wards Transportation is a shipment & transportation management company based in Queensland, Australia. The company was founded in 2003 and since then has been successfully serving freight and transportation management systems across a diverse range of industries.

At the point the client contacted us, their main business was handled offline through a very primitive booking system. This was causing huge issues to their expansion plan. They came to us with a vision to create a full-blown back office management system for their business. This includes the creation of shipment (called jobs), manifests, connotes, scanning of barcodes feature, integration with QuickBooks API, and a host of other features. A systematic transition from one phase to another needed to be achieved which helps in smooth transit between different branches along with the detailed record-keeping and job sheet creations through barcode scanning feature which we implemented.

20 years of operation

2000+ customers served

4 fulfillment locations

The main goal of the project was to build a complete back-office management system for the client's growing transportation and shipment business. This would need to accommodate literally everything they do in their day-to-day business, which till that time would happen in pen and paper mode. They wanted to convert this to web-based handling which they could then use in their various branches and checkpoints. The feature set needed was job creation, price calculation based on set pricing and weight rules, branch to branch transition, connote and manifest creation, PDF generation, barcode scanning, and Quickbooks integration. The project was huge and there were complications at various levels, which our team discussed during the discovery phase. We spoke to the client, got clarity, made suggestions, and finally came up with a working plan.

The main implementational requirements were as follows:

Job Creation

The basic unit was called ‘Job’. This would contain customer reference, sender and origin branch reference, and around 42 fields conditionally displaying which collect various information about the job and later helps in tracking and finally a field collection with the actual job items. The most complicated part was the validation and calculation. Each job item, based on the selected pricing plan and weight mode needed to be validated against set criteria, and the price needed to be calculated through AJAX. Forms API, Field API, AJAX API, and validation handlers we heavily utilized and every single logical channel was handled with care keeping the performance parameter in mind. The client wanted each calculation and validation to not take more than a few sec and we needed to implement heavy performance tuning in order to achieve this.

Customer Creation

Customers were referenced at various points in job creation - customer, sender, and receiver. The customer content type had about 54 fields taking inputs on various information about the customer. It was neatly organized into various tabs through field collection tabs and field collection ajax modules. For a customer, there would be a few pricing plans attached which would decide how the pricing rules will be applied to the jobs.

Pricing Plan Creation

The pricing plan content type was designed to add prices. In addition to some fields collecting general information about the plan, it was of 2 main types; Pricing by Weight and Pricing by PL SPC. So it will have rows. For each row, you mention sender and origin branch and then you set price by PL SPC and/or weight. When you set prices, you would need to set them in chunks, say 0 - 10, 10 - 20, 20 - 40, etc. When pricing would be calculated in the jobs content type, the weight, origin, and destination branch would be passed and the right price would be returned. This was a very complicated mechanism and needed a huge amount of calculation and validation checks.

Getting Jobs, Customers & Pricing to Play Well Together

These 3 entities needed a lot of coworking. Jobs are where these 3 things are integrated. In jobs, you would select the customer, pricing plan would be deduced and combining it with sender and receiver branch and weight ranges, the price would be calculated. There were several other conditions like once automatic calculation kicks in, users can override the value through manual entry. However, for that, a marker needs to be set which would show up during the job view. Safe to say, these three things were extremely complicated parts of the project, but other features were not too far behind!

Manifests & Connotes

When a job passes from branch to branch, various manifests and connotes are created. Each manifest and connote can hold multiple jobs as a part of the shipment. We employed and created a full blow custom field type and custom selection widget for this as the client had in mind a very specific way of doing this and we were to do it exactly like that.

Job, Manifests, Connote PDF Generation

At each stage, Jobs, Manifests and Connotes needed to be exported as PDFs. These PDFs needed to look exactly like what they used to use, which was detailed tabular structure and a custom barcode printed against each. We made use of MPDF library with some patches and custom enhancements in order to set certain style elements into the PDF. The process of setting this was very time consuming and complicated, but we managed it very well in the end.

Bar Code Scanning

Client wanted a mechanism through which the PDFs generated would need to be scanned, and there would be an interface, which would allow bulk updating of certain properties. For example, a client would open the interface, scan a few manifests and connotes and then mention what change was needed, for example updating the branch and check in status. Once done and saved, all those properties for the manifests and connotes for which barcodes were scanned would update all together. This was again a very complicated process.

Quickbooks Integration

Finally, the entire system was to be integrated with the Quickbooks software which the client used to keep his finance and accounts. This means export of customers, pricing plans, jobs pricing and status, connotes and manifests data. This was again a huge and very lengthy task, in which we needed to custom code the API and finally check and fix the calculation errors through a det of dummy data. The nature of the data was very varied and there were an extremely large number of parameters that needed to be taken into consideration.

Admin Management Screens for Customers, Jobs, Pricing Plans, Manifests and Connotes

The Client needed a detailed management area where they could view these data based on certain filters and complex combinations of display parameters. For example, jobs which passed a certain date would be colour coded for better display and filtering.

From the client’s perspective, the main success of this portal has been the ease of managing a business which till that point was extremely difficult as things were mainly manual. Also, the various stakeholders involved (customers, warehouse managers, drivers) were extremely satisfied not only with this entire thing being managed and operated online but also the extremely intuitive and easy-to-use UI/UX, especially some of them not being very tech-savvy.

This was a very complex project, and as they say, the more the complexity, the sweeter the success tastes. We were finally relieved to see that the client was extremely satisfied and pleasantly surprised by some of the features that we implemented, the client was not even sure that it could be implemented in a usable fashion. End result, happy customer and happy us!

Wards Testimonial

The project was conceived as an effort to replace manual operations with an online automated system. The project demanded a deep understanding of the company operations and freight handling, in order to be able to suggest effective solutions. Through our discovery workshops, we were able to discuss and work around various challenges posed, and we were able to deliver a solution that reduced backend operation cost by 25%, reduced error margin by a staggering 65% and improved profit margin by about 12%.

2 years of development, ongoing maintenance

Wards Testimonial II

The main challenge of the project was to gain an in-depth understanding of the entire business operations and workflow. Since this project required an in-depth solutions design, our team needed to understand exactly how the offline operations are carried out and grasp the challenges they were facing in each step. Once we absorbed the workflow, we needed to design an efficient solution that would be robust enough to handle the traffic and job load.

Heading

Reduced backend operation cost by 25%

Outcome

With the cumbersome offline processes replaced with streamlines online processes, the backend operations cost reduced drastically

Heading

Reduced error margin by 65%

Outcome

Online operations introduced automations, thereby reducing the manual errors drastically making the system more efficient.

Heading

Improved profit margin by about 12%

Outcome

With reduced timeline and improved efficiency, the profit margin increased significantly.

Cloud & DevOps

Digital Prototyping

Enterprise Drupal Development

MVP Development

Product-Market Fit

UI Design & Implementation

Web Development

Amazon AWS

Browserstack

Confluence

CSS

Drupal 8

GIT

HTML

JIRA

jQuery

MySQL

PHP

Postman

Transportation & Logistics

Implementation of Online Auction and RFQ Platform for Iron Steel Products

admin — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 21:39:58 +0000

Implementation of Online Auction and RFQ Platform for Iron Steel Products admin Tue, 01/10/2023 - 21:39

Implementation of online auction and RFQ platform for Iron & steel products including detailed portfolio management

Construction & Manufacturing

Middle East

Extensive portfolio management functionality

Online auction implementation

Products and RFQ management

UI/UX development

Performance optimization

Drupal 8/9

Apache SOLR

Bitbucket

Amazon AWS

The client reached out to us with a partially built site, as their development team was not able to complete the remaining work due to some issues. The client was looking for a development team to pick up the development, instead of building from scratch. The client had a limited timeline, as they were already behind schedule and they planned to launch the site in one of the largest construction and manufacturing expos in the country. They reached out to a number of teams, but none were keep to pick up on an existing codebase. Our team, however, were up for the challenge. We did a detailed discovery workshop, and laid down a clear development plan that included enough time for code review and reverse engineering.

The portal is a marketplace for Iron and Steel products - to connect sellers and buyers together. The goal of the website is to bridge the gap between sellers and buyers of iron and steel products in micro (C2C) or macro (B2B) scales. Service Providers register on the site and can create Products, Auctions, RFQs, Tender Sales. There are various intricate interactions between these three components, and a detailed membership module delegating permissions based on membership levels. Also the site needed to be fully bi lingual, in Farsi (RTL) and English. This is Phase I of the project which we completed. There will be 3 more phases, which we shall start working on, which includes email / SMS based notification alert and custom subscription creation, full blown E-commerce and marketplace feature and Social Media Integration. All these considerations needed to be kept in mind while building the structure and the background work.

The major requirements of the site can be mainly grouped into the following:

User Account Creation & Registration Mechanism

Users should be able to create accounts. We had to replace the email based registration system to a phone number based registration system. The users need to add their phone numbers and OTP will be sent to them. Once they add in the OTP, they will be asked to set their password and get in. To change the password also, they need to add in Phone Number and validate the OTP. We used Twillio as OTP service for the supported countries, and used a private SMS service for Iran, which the client preferred. Once in, users can set their profile data and can use start to create products and other entities.

Products

This is the main building block of the other entities - RFQs, Tender Sales and Auctions. User needs to add at least one product before they can create other entities. The product had a huge number of specification fields, and they needed to organised as cleanly as possible. We employed Field Collection, Field Collection tables and host of other modules for this, in total we had around 46 fields to be created in the product content type itself. We also employed google Maps and reverse geocoding for the Load Location field.

RFQs

Sellers could then, once they had added some products, create RFQs or Request for Quotes. This had a complicated feature of either choosing a product, or be able to custom product right in that content type, which needed to be multivalued. Main complication was that the number of fields were huge, around 46. We solved this problem using Inline Entity form and Field Collection AJAX modules. The RFQs also had an end date, and users could bid on the RFQ till the end date. The RFQ bid feature was implemented using the comments entity on the RFQ node and a few custom tables to track pricing.

Auctions

The Auction feature had all the features of normal auction. Sellers could create auction and mention the products he wants to auction (that the seller created). He would also mention an end date of the auction and a base price. The users will then bid on the auction. This bid feature was fully custom implemented, and users can only bid an amount that is greater than the last bid. At the end of the timeframe, the user with highest bid amount will be the winner.

Membership Feature

We used membership Entity as the base for this feature and then extended the work through our custom modules. The membership Entity module declares everything through Entity API making it very much extendible. We implemented additional permission checks and associated roles to award and revoke membership. Also, the membership page is integrated to registration. As user sets their password, they are taken to membership page, asking them if they would subscribe. They have the option to skip this step though.

Private Chat

The chat feature was implemented using the Drupalchat module. We used the code and forked the module to add our necessary customisations. Need to heavily customise it, but nevertheless the base work has been very helpful and time saver. In Phase II plan is to use nodejs and the chat driver, right now it's using ajax polling method.

The project was extremely complicated. It had lots of layers and main challenge was to keep it steering ahead without creating logical blobs for us. The architecture needed to be very robust to be able to handle the features of not just this phase, but also upcoming 3 Phases, which the client has already briefed us beforehand. We did careful planning and divided the tasks into sprints. Each and every architectural decision was carefully evaluated ensuring it will play well long term and it will not conflict with a future solution that we need to implement. Eventually all turned out to be good, and the client was extremely happy with the functionalities, backend and overall communication and responsiveness of out team. The project was a success! Time to get moving with the rest of the phases which we are already into.

Foolad 24 Testimonial

Initiating a project from scratch and completing it with perfection is challenging. But getting involved in a project midway, with minimal documentation and in limited time is a completely different challenge. Throughout this project, our team demonstrated skill, commitment and technical expertise as they were able to complete the project in stipulated timeline and budget, even though they faced an uphill battle in assimilating the existing codebase and workflow, especially without any proper documentation.

Fixed Scope, ongoing maintenance

Foolad 24 Testimonial II

The main challenge of the project was the the fact that we needed to pick up and work on a half built set up. The existing development team also left behind minimum documentation and we needed to reverse engineer a lot of the features in order to deconstruct the working. The goal of the project was to create a marketplace for Iron and Steel products. The Service Providers will be able to register, and create their profile. Once done, they can create products, RFQs, Auctions and Tender Sales. Buyers can come and search these, and contact the sellers directory through call/chat. If they need to place the bids on the RFQs or Auctions, they need to create an account in the site. The sellers will need to subscribe to membership levels and based on that, they would have certain access to certain features of the site.

Cloud & DevOps

Digital Prototyping

MVP Development

Product Design Strategy

Support & Maintenance

Team Augmentation

UI Design & Implementation

Web Development

Amazon AWS

Apache SOLR

Browserstack

CSS

Drupal 8

Drupal 9

GIT

HTML

jQuery

MySQL

PHP

Selenium

Construction & Manufacturing

Digital product scaling and team augmentation of a reputed online publishing company

admin — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 21:33:44 +0000

Digital product scaling and team augmentation of a reputed online publishing company admin Tue, 01/10/2023 - 21:33

Digital product scaling and team augmentation of a reputed online publishing company through effective DXP strategy & consulting

Online Publishing

USA, Canada

In depth CMS implementation, content moderation flow, advertisement module

Drupal 8

Domain Access Suite

Elasticsuite

Docker

Digital Ocean

Github

Confluence

The client is a reputed online publishing and business listing company. They were running sites with primitive proprietary CMSs and was facing increasing difficulty to maintain these websites. Particularly the three above mentioned websites were different versions of the same website as these are affiliate sites of the same parent company. There were three major focuses on the development - Ease of content editing, a very advanced advertising management feature and an impressive look and feel with interactive elements.

The website was running with primitive proprietary CMS and content editors were facing difficulty to maintain the content publishing to individual sub-sites. Particularly those websites were different versions of the same website (multisite) and were affiliated sites of the parent company.

Advance Content Management Features

The client wanted to have advanced content management features which shall be able to publish content in one or different sites (we call domains) by simply selecting while creating the content.

Detailed Content Flow

Also, there was supposed to be a detailed content flow wherein editors were able to create contents and submit for approval. Then an approver can go in make recommendations to the editors and this process can go on back and forth till all is good and the the publisher can go forward and publish the content to the site, at this point the content becomes actually visible to the end users.

Content Storage

Also each and every change made to a piece of content was to be stored as revisions. When required, publishers could revert back to an old revision.

Advanced Advertisement Module

There was an advanced advertisement module we created. The client had different 3rd party paid ads from various categories. Each of those ads had various tags. We needed to pull those ads which belongs to the ads in the present page being viewed and being able to be dynamically pulled in. So at a particular page, only the most relevant ads were supposed to be displayed.

We built a CMS with features like publishing content in different domains and implemented the facility where content can be stored as a revision and can be reverted back to old revision, advertising management feature, advanced advertisement module and an elegant look and feel with interactive elements. The website had different 3rd party paid ads from various categories where every ad had various tags. We required to pull those ads which belonged to the ads in the present page being viewed and being able to be dynamically pulled in. So at a particular page, only the most relevant ads were supposed to be displayed.

Storebrand Testimonial

Once you have found the product-market fit, it's time to scale up your product. By virtue of our team's extensive knowledge in digital product scaling, we were able to effectively assist the client to grow their online publishing platform into a mature product. Their team lacked technical expertise and knowledge and we were able to commission a dedicated development team for them in a matter of days, which helped them to achieve significant organic traffic growth, increase in customer retention and growth in advertisement revenues through our consulting & digital strategy.

2+ years of continuous development, ongoing support & maintenance

Storebrand Testimonial II

Cloud & DevOps

Continuous Monitoring

Digital Design & Branding

Enterprise Drupal Development

Incident Management

Minor Enhancements & Bug Fixes

Performance Optimization

Product Scaling

Support & Maintenance

Team Augmentation

UX Consulting & Audit

Web Development

Angular

Apache SOLR

Browserstack

Confluence

Docker

Drupal 8

Elasticsearch

GIT

Headless Drupal

JIRA

MySQL

Postman

Media, Entertainment & Publishing

Implementation of legal compliance assessment portal

admin — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 17:42:20 +0000

Implementation of legal compliance assessment portal admin Tue, 01/10/2023 - 17:42

Implementation of a legal compliance assessment portal, that includes an in-depth assessment mechanism and graphical reporting insights

Legal & Compliance

In-depth user registration Journey

Statistics & graphical analytics report

Assessment & question bank mechanism implementation

Backend development

Frontend implementation

UI/UX design

SEO & performance optimization

Drupal 8

Amazon AWS

Elasticsearch

Sendgrid

Highcharts Integration

The client contacted us after going through our case studies, and they has a very rough outline of the requirement. But the timeline seemed extremely tight, and to be able to hit it, we needed to move fast. Discussions were done, and everything was finalised fast. We began with a very short discovery workshop, and kickstarted development. The client selected us because of they were extremely impressed with our effective technical suggestions, positive approach and clear communication.

The client was a startup in the compliance space. With over 15 years of AML/Compliance background, the client along with his partner set out to create a revolutionary online assessment portal, that would be used by financial organisations for training and certification of their workforce.

This portal is a legal compliance assessment portal. The main purpose of this portal is to test and measure user's legal compliance knowledge quotient as compared to their competitors in different job roles, age groups, work domains and demographics. The project needed to be ready quickly (MVP was to be launched in a matter on months), as during that time, a few competitors of the client were working in a similar space, and the client wanted to have the early mover advantage in the market.

A Question bank, where admin can create questions for use in the test

Questions should have a category (again admin managed), a difficulty quotient (easy, moderate, hard, difficult). Questions can be of different types - like True/False, Image/Video questions, Multi-choice, option mapping etc. Each question was supposed to have different marks for the correct answers and an optional negative marking for wrong answers.

Questions Mapped to Proper Categories

Each Question, as mentioned above were supposed to be mapped to categories. Also, as mentioned above each question had a difficulty quotient. Now difficulty quotient calculation was of two modes - static & dynamic. The static mode was where an admin explicitly selected a difficulty quotient. As the test progresses and a substantial number of users have taken the test, the admin should have an option to select a category and mark questions for dynamic difficulty quotient calculation. Once they flipped a option switch, a dynamic difficulty level was calculated for each questions in each category based on correct response to the number of appearance ratio and all questions from that category were awarded a dynamic difficulty quotient.

In-depth Quiz Roll Out Mechanism

Quiz roll out mechanism needed to be incorporated. Admin could create and roll out quizzes as and when required. Each quiz could be of different types - static questions, where admin picked the questions manually from the question bank, and dynamic questions where questions were assigned to a quiz based on a pattern. For this admin needed to mention the number of categories and number of questions from each category. here there will be a shuffling of difficulty. A dynamic calculation mechanism will allow the quiz to be having varied difficulty level sections for different quizzes. So two users taking a quiz can get a difficult section A and other can get a relatively easy section B, but that will be then compensated by aa easy section B for first user and a difficult section B for second user. SO in other words, users might get sections of varied difficulty but overall difficulty of the test remains constant.

A Detailed Statistics for Admin and Users Based on Various Criteria Like Age Group, Profession and Demographics

Another important part was the statistics part. There was a leaderboard section where an user taking the test can see his ranking. Also, he sees about 15 graphs measuring his score against his peers across different age groups, job roles, educational qualifications and demographics. All test takers fills out the informations related to age groups, job roles etc while they register and then information is used at the end of the test to roll out the statistics.

Advanced Graphical Representation of Data

Also the client required different admin graphs, like questions appearance per category for automated test creation, total tests taken, total number users started the test but not completed it etc. Also, each registered user can access various graphs that would show comparison of their performance across various factors. There graphs are for general test performance, as well as their performance per test.

The project, inspite of having an extremely steep timeline, hit the market earlier than expected. This gave a huge competitive advantage to the client. Also, the client initially did not have much idea regarding the Drupal backend, found it extremely easy to manage. They were very happy with our tech stack suggestion and pleased to see the complete control they had over the questions and assessment management. Also, the little admin testing mechanism we provided proved to be very helpful for the backend team to take various tests and make sure that the quizzes work as expected.

Impressed by our team's technical competence, the association continued. Once the product was live, market testing and user feedbacks revealed more features which we continued to develop in phases. Also, we were in charge of the portal maintenance and provide support to the backend team.

MyCOmplianceIQ Testimonial

During the initial days of the project, we had hit several roadblocks. Since the MVP was supposed to be developed quickly (before one of their competitors launched their product), we were forced to begin the implementation without freezing the complete scope. As a result, we faced real threat of technical debt buildup, and missing the deadline. But our team handled all the challenges maturely and the final product not only fulfilled the scope, but the project was completed before time. The outcome was 15% reduction is overall cost and 3x more customer acquisition through early mover advantage.

15 months of development, ongoing maintenance

MyCOmplianceIQ Testimonial II

There were a lot of challenges we faced with this project. The basis of this project was laid out by the quiz module, which has already done a good job and the module is very flexible as well. Most of the requirements of this project needed us to extend that to a very large extent, in order to provide the necessary complex functionality that the client wanted. For example, they needed that each test will have a certain category and difficulty level composition of questions. So each test will have 25% each from 4 categories, but then all the questions will have a 25% each from each difficulty level. The difficulty level might vary from level to level, but the overall difficulty composition must be the same. So some might have a tough Category A, and others might have a tough category B, but overall test difficulty feels shall remain the same. This is just one instance, and there were numerous such requirements which made the project very challenging. Another challenging feature was the comparison graphs. This site compares a staggering amount of data, and there are around 62 comparison graphs in this. We implemented the awesome Highcharts API for this, but this required a lot of research and computation and some advanced mysql query on our part for getting the data ready to be fed to Highcharts. Also, the Highcharts API was used extensively to change the look and feel of those graphs.

Heading

15% reduction is cost

Outcome

We were able to complete the project earlier than the planned timeline, and hence there was a 15% reduction in overall cost.

Heading

3x more customer acquisition

Outcome

Because of the early mover advantage, the client was able to launch the product before his competitors, resulting in more customer acquisition.

Heading

In-depth assessment mechanism

Outcome

we developed a powerful assessment platform, that could be easily controlled through the backend, giving more flecibility to the overall platform management.

API & Microservices

Cloud & DevOps

Digital Prototyping

MVP Development

Product Design Strategy

Product-Market Fit

Support & Maintenance

UI Design & Implementation

Web Development

Amazon AWS

Browserstack

Confluence

Drupal 8

GIT

Headless Drupal

JIRA

JMeter

MySQL

PHP

Postman

Vue.js

Legal & Compliance

Implementation of an online landlord reference verification system

admin — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 11:46:40 +0000

Implementation of an online landlord reference verification system admin Wed, 01/04/2023 - 11:46

Implementation of an online landlord reference verification system through automation and a centralized rental history database

Real Estate

United States

In depth verification system design

Hassle free user flow

Simplistic UI/UX

Frontend development

Backend implementation

Process design

Drupal 7/8

Bitbucket

Docker

Browserstack

The client came to know about us through Linkedin, and they eventually got in touch with us with their requirement. Our technical team evaluated the requirement, and we held a series of meetings with the client's team in order to finalize the process design. Since MVP delivery timeline was extremely small, the client was especially concerned, and so were we. But as we went along and proposed the solutions, the client, impressed by our technical capabilities, communication and agility, confirmed our collaboration, and we began the work for the project.

The project was about building an online portal for landlord reference check conceived specifically for the single-family and multi-family property management industry. It helps landlords and property managers easily request and provide landlords references about their tenants online. It is a fastest and best-in-class, solution that makes requesting landlord references and providing landlord references extremely fast, simple, and secure.

This portal is an online landlord reference verification system. The client wanted to have a system in place where a landlord can request a reference from the previous landlord of a tenant regarding different security and behavioral aspects of the tenant to make sure the tenant is fit to be allowed to stay at his/her property.

Here's the main workflow of the project, as designed by our architects.

Tenant provides his details and present landlord registers and feeds the data onto the system

The tenant will provide the name and email ID of the past landlord. The present landlord will go into the system and needs to register a request for reference. Once he registers, he can fill out a form with the details of the property, his own contact details and will enter the name and email ID of the landlord he is requesting information from.

Past landlord receives notification and submits a reference

Once he submits the form, an email will be sent to the past landlord. From the email sent, the past landlord can click on the link and come to the site. There are two cases. If the past landlord is already registered, he will see a login form from which he can login and then fill out the verification form. If he is not already registered in the site, he sees an additional verification screen, where he needs to confirm his authenticity by entering the email. This ensures that someone can’t randomly copy the verification link and gain access. once the past landlords completes this step he can then fill out the information form and submit reference. The system then at the end of this step, prompts him to register if he is not already a member of the site.

Detailed search mechanism to view feedbacks by other landlord

There is a detailed site mechanism for the submitted references. Once you search by tenant name, past landlord name or requesting landlord name, you see a stripped down version of the submitted references. To view the details of the submitted references, user needs to enter the date of birth as well. This is done to ensure that one who is searching has a valid reason to do so, and also that he has the legitimate information to access the search results. The references which is either submitted, requested by the current user gets displayed in the full view by default.

Other advanced features

There are other advanced methods like creating a digital signature (which subsequently gets emailed as attachment), a detailed PDF report generation which is emailed to the requester as well as sender.

The project turned out to be great. The backend and configuration flexibility that came with using a framework like drupal shone bright and the client was very happy with the product. There was a month-long beta period for this product and the client received some very positive feedback.

Renterinc Testimonial

Through careful planing and skilful execution, it is possible to execute even the most complex tasks, easily. It is with this belief, our team took up an otherwise impossible task of releasing the MVP for this project in an extremely small timeframe. From UI/UX designing to functionality implementation, the MVP was launched in record time, and the client was able to get the much needed market validation. Eventually, subsequent phases added more features and final product boasts of a simplified user journey, intuitiuve UI/UX and a relatively simple but powerful admin backend.

Fixed scope, ongoing maintenance

Renterinc Testimonial II

The major challenge for the project was the MVP timeline. We needed to be extra planned, and a lot of the project processes needed to happen in parallel. Also, it needed an extremely good communication and our team was up foe the challenge. Out architectural planning team was able to come up with a feasible plan, and out development team ensure that it was followed, and we could roll our the MVP in time. Once MVP was rolled out, rest of the project was developed in phases and we eventually completed the entire project.

Cloud & DevOps

Digital Prototyping

MVP Development

UI Design & Implementation

Web Development

Apache SOLR

Browserstack

CSS

Drupal 8

GIT

HTML

JIRA

JMeter

jQuery

MySQL

PHP

Real Estate

Implementation of an edtech platform for online tutor scheduling

admin — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 11:47:12 +0000

Implementation of an edtech platform for online tutor scheduling admin Mon, 01/02/2023 - 11:47

Implementation of an edtech platform for online tutor scheduling with in-depth live class mechanism

Edtech

Belgium, Netherlands

Ideation & project roadmap development

Drupal custom module development

Drupal site building & frontend

Support & AMC

Performance optimization

Drupal 8

Apache SOLR

Acquia Cloud

GITLabs

JIRA

Confluence

Browserstack

The client's team had several discussions with us where we interpreted the the market feedbacks we had received into feature set, and they engaged us as a technical consultant to their project. Once the requirement set as hardened, and then development roadmap was clearly laid down, we were obviously the first choice as a development team, considering our contribution to the project so far.

The client is a young and dynamic edtech startup that originated from a varied group of tutors and academics who offer tutoring, both online and in-classroom setup. Headquartered in Ghent, they are active throughout Belgium and the Netherlands. Since 2013, this platform brings students and tutors together. More than 16,000 students have already found a private tutor through their platform.

The portal is an online platform for students to book classes from various tutors of diverse backgrounds. Students can search for tutors and classes based on various filters and criteria. These classes can be both online via web conference, or home tutoring.

This project was meant to be a website for students to book classes from various tutors online. The tutors would register online and fill up various information and their resume. They would then go through an approval process and once verified, their listing would start to appear on the site. Students can search based on different criteria using an extensive filtering mechanism. They can then book the two modes of classes - either online or offline (if a tutor has added this option to his profile).

Then the student makes a payment deposit as per selected tutor as per selected time slot and per hour rate of the tutor. And once done, the payment is escrowed to the tutor, after he enters his bank details, IBAN and BIC details. Another great functionality which we implemented here is the group class feature. Any tutor can start the group class and can mention how many students can be accommodated in one group class. And then students start to register for the class till it is full. There are various complex discount calculations which a student is entitled to if refers another student to the group as there is a feature to get referral discounts for referring other students to the group class. Some of the processes, especially referral discount calculation, were very complex, and our team of experienced backend developers successfully handled those challenges and went above and beyond every expectation.

Here's a gist of some of the functionalities we built grounds up, as per market feedback and analysis, and discussion with the client's product team.

Group Class Mechanism - The client wanted to implement a new feature called group class. So instead of an one on one session, a tutor can create a class at some future date, and allow multiple students to sign up for the same class. This was supposed to be an extension of the existing class system, but would need a special wage and fees calculation mechanism in place.
Referral Credits & Discounts - Client also wanted to start a referral mechanism programme. Here, one student can refer another student to join the site. Such users who join in, become the referral of the invitee, and any subsequent classes they purchase will entitle invitee for some discounts on the class the invitee purchases. Also, this referral mechanism was supposed to be multi level, instead of one level. So if a referred student further refers to another one, the invitee of this referred student also gains a referral credit/discount.
Online Video Conferencing for Online Tutoring Classes - Also, the client needed some enhancements to the online video conferencing feature on top of the existing system.
Design Improvements - There were quite a few pages, which were pretty basic and did not uphold the spirit of the site. The client discussed this matter with our designing team and engaged us to revamp and improve the design elements across the site to make it look more attractive.

The series of features we implemented not only helped the client gain more customers, but it also allowed them to expand to new markets, with considerable revenue boost. We forged a strong professional alliance and continue to support them for all their technical needs,

Bijleshuis Testimonial

While the client already had a MVP launched and they had gained considerable market insights, they needed a technical partner co-work with them to translate these into a solid phased development plan. Our team was able to evaluate the market feedbacks and design robust solutions that transformed customer journey and user experience. The features we implemented led to an overall increase in customer retention by 20%, paid customer conversion by 30% and led to an overall improvement in backend efficiency.

1.5+ years, phased development

Bijleshuis Testimonial II

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Increase in customer retention by 20%

Outcome

With more user friendly process design, the portal became easier to use and the customer retention increased considerably.

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Paid customer conversion by 30%

Outcome

The market analysis revealed some must have features, and once these were implemented, the site saw a surge in paid customer number and overall improved conversion rate.

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Overall improvement in backend efficiency

Outcome

Through the feature optimizations we did, the backend efficiency increases and led to increase in profit.

API & Microservices

Cloud & DevOps

Digital Design & Branding

Digital Prototyping

Performance Optimization

Product Scaling

Support & Maintenance

Team Augmentation

UI Design & Implementation

Web Development

Browserstack

Confluence

Docker

Drupal 9

Elasticsearch

GIT

Google Cloud

Headless Drupal

JIRA

JMeter

MySQL

Postman

React

Selenium

Edtech