Location based Offers - Discounts Mobile App & Portal Development

About the Client

Location Denmark

Industry Travel & Lifestyle

GO DISCOVER is an award winning mobile app portal for Copenhagen which gives you inspiration and access to some of the very best offers and discounts.

Services we offered

mobile app development
portal development

The Challenge

The principal aim of the client was to create a travel & lifestyle location-based mobile application. It was for the local people of Copenhagen, Denmark. The client wants to disclose hidden gems of the best offers with attractive discounts available in the vicinity.

The client wishes that recommendations must come from the locals and insiders. Therefore, it can prove highly reliable & with no manipulation by the marketers. Thus, the app can inspire shoppers to grab any buying opportunity available in the vicinity even while they are on the go.

Project Scope

We have evaluated client requirements by allocating our business analysts team and found following features and functionality were essential for satisfaction of the client.They wanted to include features like

Employees Essentials

The recommendations must come from the locals and insiders.

The recommendations should highly reliable & with no manipulation by the marketers.

The app has to inspire shoppers to grab any buying opportunity available in the vicinity even while they are on the go.

App must be intuitive to use and inspiring to accomplish app goals.

Project Manager Requirements

Client was expecting features and functionality according to design and user experience standards prevailing on the platforms like iOS and Android.

Lightweight UIs needed to enhance the app performance for fast screen loading and rapid interaction.

Great user experiences were demanded by client through design, programming, and integration of 3rd party services.

Integration of Location-based Services was prime expectations.

Integration of weather kit also in need.

Our iOS app development and Android app development teams have approached the project with an aim to design an exclusive user interface using rich graphics and targeting the excellent user experiences through design and programming strategies. We also have to make a strategy for managing a high data volume.

Requirement Analysis & Segregation

We have analyzed the client’s requirements precisely and broken down the system accordingly to expectations.

Planning

We have created a project plan according to requirements and defined milestones & deliverables according to modules.

Architecture

We have to put diligent efforts to define the architectures for both mobile platforms individually keeping the same elements on focus.

Design & Development

We have preferred lightweight UIs for both platforms for fast performance and great user experiences.

Solution

Our Journey towards the Solution was pretty interesting throughout the life cycle of both apps. We have faced challenges and achieved goals successfully, such as

Location-based push notifications

We have enabled location-based push notifications to provide real-time info regarding deals, offers, and discounts available for travel and lifestyle related stuff/products in the vicinity within a defined radius.

Location Tracking

We have introduced the latest location tracking technologies including GPS, wireless, Bluetooth, and others to get precision and accuracy for location data as well as Geo-fencing for the 200-meter radius.

Weather Kit

We have implemented a weather kit to acknowledge the latest weather conditions and forecasts based on real-time location changes. It is because Denmark is known for sudden weather changes in Europe.

Full Stack Solutions

We have provided full stack solutions for both platforms. Our full-stack developers have attained tasks right from front-end UI design to back-end CMS and hefty data management challenges for real-time delivery.

Support & Maintenance

We also have offered comprehensive support and post-development maintenance services to ensure high ROI.

Technologies
We Used

Objective-C
Swift
HTML5
CakePHP
Ajax
JQuery
MySQL

Results

Milestones & Deliverables

We have defined milestones and deliverables. It brought accountability to keep project cost within given budget and timeline without any payment delay at all.