Craving Coalitions application aims to offer users the best deals, discounts, and savings on their favourite local places and businesses. It also serves as a platform for vendors to attract more customers by providing them with membership and discount vouchers that can be redeemed in-store.

Project Details

Craving Coalitions is an application that caters to two actors – vendors and customers. The vendor or the business can use the application to manage their main and sub-branches, create memberships and offers, and define the terms and conditions of the membership plan. By purchasing a membership, customers can get unbelievable discounts on their favourite stores. Vendors can create vouchers and promotional offers for customers through the application. On the other hand, customers can buy membership plans or vouchers and avail of discounts in their preferred stores or places. They can redeem the offer by providing the invoice ID or showing a QR code to the business. Furthermore, customers can also earn money by offering referral codes to different businesses.

Project Idea

Our clients want to create a platform for different businesses including restaurants, gyms, spas, and retail stores to manage their main and sub-branch operations to generate more revenue by offering membership and discounted vouchers to the customers.

• Build an application that allows the app users to save money and manage their payments through a digital wallet.
• To manage different branches, we need the best vendor management practices.
• An interactive app design that helps the user to search for the best deals and discounts.

Project Challenges

• Creation of deals and discount applications from scratch.
• Build long-term partnerships for app enhancement.
• Developed an app using UI/ UX and best deals & discounts practices.
• Provide the best analytics strategy to the business to observe user interaction with offers and deals.
• Providing the customer best technical support for app enhancement, market analysis, and IT consultants.
• Empower the user to onboard thousands of businesses and customers on the application.
• Successful cooperation for application growth by providing the best technical consult and dev team.

Results

• Businesses can manage offers on different branches.
• Businesses have a strong check and balance on his earnings.
• Customers can earn money by referrals to the new business
• Businesses and customers can manage their payments through digital wallets.
• Businesses can redeem the offer by scanning the QR code.

Challenges:

Technical challenges:

Developing a complex application like Craving Coalitions can be a challenging task. The system will require integrating various technologies, such as payment gateways, membership management systems, QR code generation, and more. Ensuring that all these technologies work seamlessly can be challenging.

User adoption:

The success of the application depends on how well it is adopted by vendors and customers. Getting vendors to sign up for the application can be a challenge initially, especially if they are not familiar with the technology. Customers may also be reluctant to use the application if they are not comfortable with the payment methods or redemption process.

Competition:

There are several similar applications in the market that offer membership plans and discounts to customers. Craving Coalitions will need to have a competitive pricing strategy and offer unique features to attract vendors and customers.

Security:

The application will need to ensure the security of customer data and payment information. This includes implementing secure payment gateways, data encryption, and protecting against cyber-attacks.

Scalability:

As the application gains popularity, it will need to be scalable to accommodate an increasing number of users. This includes optimising the system architecture and infrastructure to handle a large volume of traffic and data.

Craving Coalitions Development Phases:

UI (User Interface):

Our team at Assort Tech has developed a brand-new user interface, with a focus on streamlining the mobile experience. Our specialists, who specialise in responsive design, have ensured that the visual aesthetic of the user interface is consistent with the client’s vision and fully retained.

Front-end

Our development team utilised a variety of appropriate technologies, including Flutter, .Net, and Dart, to create the platform within a seven-month timeframe. Throughout the development process, we prioritised cross-platform capabilities to optimise the user experience for all users. This involved rebuilding the Android and iOS apps from scratch, as well as creating a new app version that followed best practices and patterns for software development.

Payment Methodes

Our team also performed integrations with Stripe for payment transactions, and FCM to enable notifications. We handled all critical business logic and application integrations, including the interaction between the backend and frontend. In addition, our DevOps specialists introduced the AWS Services platform to provide back-office services.

Back-end:

We utilised the .NET framework to create an admin panel with integrated functions for our mobile application. Our web app admin panel allows administrators to manage users and access a variety of features. The admin panel is divided into several different areas, including content management, package management, payment management, and user administration sections.

QA & Testing:

The Craving Coalitions application has developed with top priorities in mind: security, functionality, usability, compatibility, and performance. Security measures are implemented and the application is tested for vulnerabilities to protect user data and privacy. Extensive testing is also conducted to ensure that all features work as intended and that any bugs or glitches are promptly identified and fixed. Usability is tested to make the application user-friendly and easy to navigate. Compatibility is also ensured by testing on different devices and platforms, while performance is evaluated to provide a smooth user experience.

Deployment:

Following appropriate verification and data management, the application was then launched on both the App Store and Play Store.

Core Technologies

1. Flutter
2. Dart
3. .NET Framework

The app has developed using Flutter, a popular mobile app development framework, and relies on Firebase services for backend functionality.

Craving Coalitions Goals:

This platform provides businesses with the opportunity to attract more customers by offering exclusive membership and discount vouchers. By leveraging these tools, businesses can potentially increase their sales and grow their customer base.

With our vendor management feature, business owners can easily keep track of earnings from all their branches in one place, eliminating the need for multiple reports. Additionally, our platform offers a built-in digital wallet that enables businesses to manage their payments conveniently and securely.

In addition to offering exclusive deals and savings, our platform rewards loyal customers for inviting more businesses to join our network. By referring their favourite local businesses to our platform, users can earn cash rewards and help their community discover new places to shop, eat, and relax.