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We are looking for professional web developers. The project is to develop a group buying website that will function similarly to Groupon.com and LivingSocial.com. Functionality and technology would need to be similar so please have a thorough understanding of how Groupon and LivingSocial. We have tried to be detailed in our request below but ultimately it needs to have the same functionalities as Groupon or Living Social.
Development of this project must be very fast and requires developers who already have done similar group buying website projects. We will provide the graphics / layout / coloring and design. There will be slight differences to GroupOn and Living Social, which we will discuss.
HIGH LEVEL REQUIREMENTS:
1) Ability to post new deals with following info: Today’s Deal: Title, Deal info, Blurb on Deal, Reviews on Deal, “Groupon Says” section (additional notes about deal), end date/time, min/max order, Value / Discount % / Savings, and ability to share and discuss the deal in a column on the right side of the page.
2) Categorize deals by city (will launch with one, but need the ability to add cities easily)
3) Option to share the deal on Facebook, Twitter or via individual E-mail and an E-mail List.
4) Allow customers to create accounts, sign-in, bid for deals, provide payment info
5) Facilitate non-users and new customers to sign-up for a daily e-mail alert about the daily deal
6) Generation of digital coupon with unique coupon number and barcode for successful deals
7) Facilitate secure payment option with direct credit card transactions and Paypal
8) Discussion board for users, forums
9) “About us”, “Contact us”, “How the site works” sections …
10) Affiliates & referrals capabilities
11) Gift cards
12) User portal which can allow people to 1) manage their accounts (name, e-mail, password, credit cards or payment info and uploading a profile picture), 2) review their groupons bought, and 3) review their gifts bought.
Below is a more detailed descriptions for this project:
ADMIN WEB CONSOLE AND RIGHTS:
– Ability to control the site through an interface, with a secure login, so that an administrator can login remotely.
– Ability to create multiple administration accounts with different rights / privileges.
– Ability to define multiple cities/platforms, so the user can switch between the cities.
– Ability to create new coupons independently for each city/platform
– Ability for an administrator to create a new ‘Deal’ for the category for which they have permission.
– Ability to specify a start date / time, ending date / time, minimum purchase requirements, maximum purchase requirements, and the key terms and conditions (cost per coupon etc.)
– Ability to view all members, their contact details, and coupons purchased.
– One the side, the ability to post a ‘Bonus Deal’ or ‘Side Deal’. This functionality would be hidden in the beginning.
– For each ‘Deal’, a discussion page in which members can ask questions about the ‘Deal’ and an administrator can login and answer questions for all members to see.
COUPONS:
– Following fields for each coupon: ID, coupon price (that needs to be paid), original price/value of coupon, description, Pictures/collage, website, location of coupon (address), etc (see also groupon.com)
– Ability to set a min/max number of units that can be sold of one coupon. If the limit is reached before the coupon runs out, the deal closes and additional coupons cannot be purchased
– every coupon should have a start date when the offer is opened to the public and an end date, when the deal closes (including a timer counting down the remaining time to buy the coupon)
– When a deal is over or sold out before, it is displayed on the main page, but users cannot buy it anymore
– Extract/export buyer information into a CSV file
– Site needs to allow user to select one column or two columns to display prior deals and total displayed.
– 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.
– 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’ closed.
– Need template driven front end (customer facing)
PREVIOUS DEALS:
– Ability to select certain expired ‘Deals’ to show on a “Prior Deals” page.
– For each expired ‘Deal’, the ability to show the client’s logo, the ‘Deal’ offered, the number of coupons sold, the total dollars saved.
EMAILS:
– Ability to create an auto-generated HTML email, 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’.
– When a member signs up for emails to be sent to them, they should fill out their email address and select which category they would like ‘Deals’ for.
– 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.
– Ability to create an HTML email and .pdf attachment, which is sent to all buyers of a coupon, that includes the full name of the buyer and their email address. The email will be used to print it out and show to the shop owner to get the discount.
E-COMMERCE FUNCTIONALITIES:
– Ability to facilitate payment options with direct credit card transactions, PayPal, Google Checkout.
– Ability to store credit card information for members so that coupons can be purchased once they are logged in.
MEMBER LOGIN:
– 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.
– Recognition of current customers when they turn back to website and regarding cities where they live have to be chosen automatically for them.
– Ability for members to login to the site to view and print coupons purchased, credit card information, personal details (name, contact details).
– Ability to import contacts from Facebook, Hotmail, Twitter etc. and refer contacts to our site.
– Affiliate system that credits customer’s accounts upon the referral of other members (once they make an initial purchase).
– The credit should only be used for the purchase of other offers i.e. cannot be withdrawn for cash.
CLIENT/BUSINESS OWNER LOGIN:
– Ability for clients to login to the site and see total coupons purchased for their specific ‘Deal’.
– Ability to check-off coupons that have already been claimed by a member.
– Ability to print a list of coupons outstanding (not yet redeemed).
DATA COLLECTION:
– Ability to collect data for each ‘Deal’: the number of members that viewed the ‘Deal’; the number of coupons sold.
– Ability to download data into a CSV file for any ‘Deal’.
– Report to see through the console, all buyers and their contact details of any coupon
INTEGRATION:
– Ability to integrate the ‘Deal’ each day with Facebook, Twitter and email.
– Search Engine Optimization for Google, Yahoo!, and Bing web searches.
SUGGESTIONS’ SECTION:
– Ability for members to suggest deals that they would like to see.
OTHERS:
– 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.
– Basic information pages: About Us, Contact Us, FAQ, Terms & Conditions etc.
– The software should 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. Also, we would like a programmer who could be available for tweaks and glitch repair in the first few weeks (for which there would be additional payment).
We will provide the logos, text, and design (mockups) for the site.
Please send demo including front-end, admin console, user and demo links.
Thank you
