We’re looking to build a social buying site that’s similar to Groupon.com and LivingSocial.com. There will be several key distinctions that makes ours a unique product, but here’s an outline of what may be needed (based off of another posting to make it
easy):
*Strong preference for those who already have a working social buying script/site.
Functionality:
• Similar to LivingSocial.com and Groupon.com. Check those sites for reference.
+ Additional:
• A drop down menu to select city you
want to subscribe to (pls. see groupon.com ). Have a button that they can X
out in top right hand corner and have it disappear.
+ About the other features and functions what can not be visible in the
reference website:
1. Flexible Back-end System:
• The ability to control the site through an interface, with a secure login, so
that an administrator can login remotely and update anytime (content management
system).
• The ability to create multiple administration accounts with different rights
/ privileges.
• The ability for an administrator to create a new Deal for the City for which
they have permission through the content management system.
• The ability for an administrator to create a deal by filling some
details(discussed more below in Deal Features) such as starting date, duration
of the deal (in hours, could be more than 24h), price, number of buyers required
(optional, if needed).
• The ability for an administrator to schedule at least 20 deals for further
dates. Scheduled deals will be shown at “Today’s deal” page on provided date for
each cities.
• The ability for an administrator to remove a previous deal for the City.
• The ability to specify key terms and conditions (cost per coupon, quantity of
coupons available, etc.)
• The ability to view all members, their contact details, and coupons
purchased.
2. Manage CMS contents:
• Built-in WYSIWYG HTML editor to manage contents of the site like about us,
contact us, terms of use pages. What you see is what you get HTML editor
creates and edits your documents just like you were writing a document in a
word-processor. Add tables, images and formatted text without any knowledge of
HTML.
3. Product Management & Deal Features:
• The ability to create separate Deals or coupons for each City.
• Required buying quantity (with quota): The ability to set a minimum number of
coupons that need to be sold before the ‘Deal’ becomes available. If members
purchase a ‘Deal’ that does not reach the minimum, they are automatically sent
an email stating that the ‘Deal’ did not tip and that they will not be charged.
• No required buying quantity(without quota): The ability not to set a minimum
number of coupons that need to be sold before the ‘Deal’ becomes available.
• Each coupon will need the following fields: Picture; Price Paid (by the
member); % Savings; Purchased; Short Description; Logo, Address of the Business
and Phone Number, Remaining Time, Share deal through email, Facebook, Twitter
functionality; Address of the Business (with small Google Map integration tied
to the address with ability to zoom in and out.), Key Terms & Conditions (pls.
see livingsocial.com under “fine print”)
• The ability to restrict the time period for which ‘Deal’ is available
(typically 24 hrs to 7 days).
• One the side, the ability to post a ‘Bonus Deal’ or ‘Side Deal’. This
functionality would be hidden in the beginning (may be some time later).
• Coupon generator that will randomly generate serial numbers of 10 digits
or/and letters, which will be given to the customer before they get their
products or services from vendors.
4. E-Commerce Functionality:
• The ability to facilitate payment options with direct credit card
transactions (no payment information should be stored on our servers).
• Payment Confirmation email once cards are charged sent to the user’s email
address with the amount being charged (e.g. an invoice/receipt)
• The ability for members to securely purchase coupons once logged in without
reentering credit card or shipping address information.
• The ability for members to login to the site to view and print coupons
purchased (with serial numbers of 10 digits or/and letters), personal details
(name, contact details).
5. Order tracking
• The status of your customer orders are notified through the email as soon as
the order status changes (payment confirmation email)
• When a deal reaches its threshold (not a MUST, optional for deal, which is
also an another option of our system), all customers who entered their credit
card information for that deal should be charged and issued their coupon. And as
other purchase, they will be charged and issued their coupon immediately.
6. Email list Management:
• The ability to create an auto-generated HTML email with stylized
graphics-included coupon upon purchase completion, which is sent to all members
who opted in for either a site wide or specific category email, alerting them of
each day’s ‘Deal’.
• The ability to create an auto-generated HTML email, which is sent to the
member post-purchase, with a link to where they can login and print out any
coupons purchased.
• The ability to create an auto-generated HTML email with stylized graphics, if
the customer has not been to the website since 20 days.
7. Tracking Referrals (by issuing customers a unique referral link)
• Ability to note the new user signing up after clicking the referral link
• Ability to manually issue amount paid for deal (by new customer) to the
user’s account who referred the deal (friend referral feature will automatically
do this in the case of a friend signing up and making a first purchase, but in
case of a refund, we need to be able to manually do this).
8. Sales Reports
• The ability to monitor sales activity using detailed sales reporting tools.
Generate sales summary, sales detail and product sales reports.
• The ability to view number of sales, and contact information for all buyers
of that particular “product” offer save buyer info into a CSV file segmented by
each deal.
• Ability of admin to get a list of tracking Ids (coupon numbers) for specific
deal, handed to the Vendor (B2B Merchant) for the purpose of preventing abuse
(printable version and specific account for merchant)
9. Site Statistics:
• Ability to see how many shoppers are viewing our site and how many shoppers
have logged on the site for viewing is known. Google Analytics integration
(super easy piece of code to throw in)
• Ability of admin to manage list of deals, cancel scheduled or active deals.
• Ability of admin to view a printable list of purchased coupons for specific
deal.
• The ability to download data into a CSV file for any ‘Deal’ with Statistics.
• Intergrated with google analytics easy a-b testing for future refinements
10. Expired ‘Deals’:
• The system will show which dead deals to display on a “prior deals” page for
that Region/City.
• For each expired ‘Deal’, the ability to show the client’s logo, date,
optional Sold Out logo, the ‘Deal’ offered, the number of coupons sold, the
total dollars saved.
• Displays only specific information to the expired deal in the prior deal view
but each should be clickable to a special prior deals directory displaying the
normal page but not allowing the item/offer to be purchased.
11. Paying Vendors (B2B Merchants)
• Different than livingsocial.com , vendors will have also their private
accounts in the website which will be given after an agreement for a deal, where
they can follow their deals.
• The ability to enter in payment amounts between vendor accounts and the admin
account to track how much has been paid out to the vendor thus far and how much
we owe to the vendor.
12. Log out
• Landing on page for new visitors based on IP address and matched to our
cities. If that’s not possible, allow us some control that we can set what city
becomes the landing page when people first show up to the site and haven’t yet
selected what city they’d like to see.
• Recognization of current customers when they turn back to website and
regarding cities where they live have to be choosen automatically for them.
13. Other:
• Overall, the website should be flexible in terms of functional amendments. In
the future, the provider may be hired to add certain functions. This will likely
be an interactive and on-going assignment.
• Search Engine Optimization for Google, Yahoo!, and Bing web searches.
• Will provide the logo/pictures/text for the site; the web designer must
provide the overall design and coding as stated above.
• Basic information pages: About Us, Contact Us, FAQ, Terms & Conditions etc.
• The software should setup for allow for easy theme customization, logo
upload, web admin of daily deals and historical archives, etc.
• Code must be easy to read, update and well documented
14. Expired ‘Deals’:
• The system will show which dead deals to display on a “prior deals” page for
that Region/City.
• For each expired ‘Deal’, the ability to show the client’s logo, date,
optional Sold Out logo, the ‘Deal’ offered, the number of coupons sold, the
total dollars saved.
• Displays only specific information to the expired deal in the prior deal view
but each should be clickable to a special prior deals directory displaying the
normal page but not allowing the item/offer to be purchased.
15. Paying Vendors (B2B Merchants)
• Different than livingsocial.com , vendors will have also their private
accounts in the website which will be given after an agreement for a deal, where
they can follow their deals.
• The ability to enter in payment amounts between vendor accounts and the admin
account to track how much has been paid out to the vendor thus far and how much
we owe to the vendor.
16. Log out
• Landing on page for new visitors based on IP address and matched to our
cities. If that’s not possible, allow us some control that we can set what city
becomes the landing page when people first show up to the site and haven’t yet
selected what city they’d like to see.
• Recognization of current customers when they turn back to website and
regarding cities where they live have to be choosen automatically for them.
17. Other:
• Overall, the website should be flexible in terms of functional amendments. In
the future, the provider may be hired to add certain functions. This will likely
be an interactive and on-going assignment.
• Search Engine Optimization for Google, Yahoo!, and Bing web searches.
• Will provide the logo/pictures/text for the site; the web designer must
provide the overall design and coding as stated above.
• Basic information pages: About Us, Contact Us, FAQ, Terms & Conditions etc.
• The software should setup for allow for easy theme customization, logo
upload, web admin of daily deals and historical archives, etc.
We will also need customized design of the site implemented.
Please only bid if you are totally sure that you can build a complete website
like livingsocial.com and groupon.com above additional features and have done similar
projects before(experienced) about the topic. We need to have the site live
asap. We appreciate your sample live websites or Demos.
Additional Info (Added 5/13/2010 at 2:16 EST)…
AGAIN: STRONG PREFERENCE TO THOSE THAT ALREADY HAVE A SIMILAR GROUPON CLONE
