Ecommerce With Social Networking - Pegpay Case Study

E-commerce With Social Networking - Pegpay Case Study

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Case Study – Pegpay

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Table of Contents

The Client 3

Requirements 3

Radix Approach 4

The Solution 5

Star Features 7

Technologies Employed 8

The Wrap Up 8

About Radix 9



The Client

Our client, an enterprising one, has been into business for a noteworthy

period of time. Having a sound understanding of local market dynamics, our

client came up with a unique idea called Pegpay for local businesses. Pegpay

is a store credit system that allows local businesses to offer discounted rates

to their loyal customers. Quite pioneering in vision and innovative in

concept, our client developed the Pegpay system to allow local businesses to

offer exclusive discounts to loyal customers without shaving off their profit

margins. It is also a great way of holding on to your existing customer base

and keeping them happy and satisfied.

Requirements

When the client came to us, he first of all explained the concept of Pegpay to

the Radix team. Once we had a clear understanding of what his vision was

and what he was looking to do, we started analyzing Radix’s role in the

scheme of things. Our scope of involvement spanned across designing,

developing, testing, and deploying the solution. We further broke down this

scope into individual requirements as follows:

The client wanted Radix to develop a user friendly system within the

prescribed timeframe and budgetary specifications.

The system should combine the features of e-commerce and social

networking platform in a simple but extensive manner.

The system should connect service seekers with service providers.

The system should involve a short and simple registration process.

The system users should be able to maintain their profile as either a

service seeker or a service provider.



The system should have a unique pegging and time constraint

feature for the services.

The system should allow service seekers and service providers to

interact within themselves.

The system should display the service providers based on their service

location.

The client wanted the system admin to be able to have user

management capabilities.

The admin should be able to manage the services and offers provided

by the service providers of the system.

The admin should have control over the content of the system.

Radix Approach

Once the requirement gathering was done, we focused our attention on

analyzing the requirements. We got our team of business analysts together

to review the scope of efforts involved. They started out by first of all

understanding the client’s business objective. Based on this they studied the

system requirements and suggested a few things. They identified the critical

system features based on their business implications. Our project

management team identified the ideal resources to handle these

requirements. They divided the whole development project into phases to

better manage them. Each of these phases was handed over to the best

suitable resource. Thus, we had a well outlined strategic approach in place

for the project.



The Solution

With all ambiguities out of way, the Radix development team had a clear and

concise idea of what was to be done. They immediately started working on

the module wise features that were identified in the analysis phase. Finally,

what we were able to deliver to the client was marked by the following:

First of all, we successfully developed the Pegpay system within

prescribed timelines and budget constraints.

We developed Pegpay to act as a platform for marketing and accessing

services and products.

The system has a very simple look and feel as demanded by the client.



The system requires the users to undergo a registration process

which once they are done with requires them to log into the system.

The system classifies the users into three roles – service providers,

service seekers, and admin.

The system allows a user to be a service seeker and a service provider

simultaneously.

As demanded by the client, the system displays service providers

based on their service location.

The system offers a unique pegging feature to the service seekers that

they can use to lock offers in the system for future use.

The system supports every offer with coupons that decrease in number

with more and more users pegging.

With every peg, the system adds the offer into service seeker’s

account for specific time to allow him time for purchase decision.

The service seekers of the site can interact with their counterparts.

The system further acts as a community portal and allows the users to

add friends into the system and gives out alert notifications with every

friend update.

A user can maintain his profile and manage his account on the system

which includes peg balance, store, coupons, products, etc.



The merchants of the system can issue coupons, bundles, and gift

certificates to facilitate sales.

The system further offers search functionality to the system users.

The site admin controls the different user modules from the backend

admin panel.

The system integrates a content management system to allow the site

admin to control the content.

Star Features

Radix has earned a reputation for developing solutions that not only address

business challenges but also drive growth. While our team focuses on the

client requirements, they also use their multiple industry experience to draw

out special highlights that can add value to the solution. We call these

special highlights our star features. In this case the star features were as

follows:

User management module to manage the different users of the

system.

Ability to manage users from member perspective.

Management of online stores by the service providers.

Ability to generate coupons and promote bundle offers and gift

certificates.

Ability to add friends and manage them.

Comprehensive seller directory.



Category management for services.

Location management for service providers or merchants.

A dynamic form to collect feedback, ideas, suggestions, and

complaints.

Generation of various business relevant reports.

Management of payment received from the online channel.

Technologies Employed

Ruby on Rails

MySQL

The Wrap Up

Radix considers the Peypay project an important milestone in its growth

story. It gave us an opportunity to test our e-commerce development skills

and combine them with social networking capabilities. It was also an

opportunity for us to study a different business model altogether. What we

delivered to the client has been absolutely gratifying. We are mighty proud

of our association with Pegpay and look forward to having a longstanding

business association.



About Radix

Radix is an IT outsourcing company that leverages the potential of

technology to deliver effective, reliable, and consistent IT services

with cost savings. But we do not simply deliver economies of

scale. Our multi-technology and multi-domain exposure enables

us to add to your bottom-line.

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Ecommerce With Social Networking - Pegpay Case Study