Bespoke Auction and E-commerce Platform for Versatile Needs - Techment

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Bespoke Auction and E-commerce Platform for Versatile Needs

Background

Online auctioning and e-commerce has become an integral part of our lives. With this, the expectation of customers regarding the shopping experience has become quite high. It takes a state-of-the-art website to enable users to easily navigate through millions of products to purchase, to find and bid the right one.

Our client needed a bespoke auction and e-commerce platform, designed as one of the best in its category. Their existing platform was a prestigious one that ranked as one of the top 500 Franchises by Entrepreneur’s Franchise offers services like Senior Relocation, Downsizing, and Estate Sale Services. They approached us to give a radical upgrade to their web platform.

Challenges and Opportunities

The client needed a customizable and responsive auctioning and e-commerce platform, which was advanced enough to integrate cutting-edge technology and yet remained easy to use. The core challenges were:

To integrate diverse functionality into applications

Ensuring Cross-Platform Compatibility

Providing the Platform With Easy and Intuitive Navigation

Creation of a User Friendly Auctioning and Buying Process

Endowing the E-Commerce Platform With Latest Features

Integrating Social Media Sharing Functionality

Our Solution

At Techment, we focus intensely on your pain points, and they become the epicenter around which we create our tech solutions. Well endowed with excellent functionality and user experience, our two-fold solution comprised:

Auction Application
CE-commerce Application

We delivered an easy to use mobile app designed for both Android and iOS devices to create listings for sellers; a web application for the Seller and Buyer, and a Web portal for admin to manage the platform.

Auction Application

Our elegantly designed Customer Auction Portal (CAP) system cared for the implementation of proxy bidding, multi-tenancy & real-time notification for bidders. It helped them address various pain points areas, such as:

Provide efficient ways of Listing and analyzing the entire auction.
More mobilized internal management.
Reverse Bidding Feature
Staggered Bidding Process
Automatic Bidding Feature With Live Auctions and Proxy Bidding
Bid History

Enabled the Sellers to Set the Items for Sales Directly.
App and Browser Compatible Platform
Facilitated Multiple Uploading of Items
Multiple Payment Gateway Support
Email Management
SMS and Social Media Gateway Integration
Feedback and Reviews

E-Commerce Platform

It was designed so that both the applications complement each other. The key features are:

Mobile and Browser Based Ordering
Streamlined Registration and Checkout
Item Procurement Tracking
Builtin Shipping Estimator
Multiple Payment Gateway Support

Ticketing and Table Management
Live Scoreboards
Search Engine Optimized Code and Layout
Reporting Tools
Social Media Integrations

Technology Stack

Technology

Bootstrap 3

HTML 5

CSS3

Hibernate

MySQL

AngularJS(1)

Java

Platform

Web/Desktop

Android

iOS

Impact & Business value

There are scores of solutions available in the market but, each business is so unique that only an application that is designed to address their problems, as well as aspirations can help them most effectively.

For our client, we did just that and helped them grow and scale. In this era of hyper-competition and of tech giants like Amazon, auction portals provide a more competitive bidding arena enabling sellers to reach out to a broader spectrum of buyers, thereby increasing the sales. Our client experienced a rise in sales, as well as a positive word of mouth for the delightful experience customers had.

With this project, we have displayed, yet again, that we deliver world-class bespoke solutions within challenging timelines.

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