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Duty-Free Price-Comparison, Booking Platform & Reseller App Development

Services Covered:

Website Development • E-commerce Development • Mobile Application Development

Industry

E-commerce & Retail

Duration

137 months

Budget

200K - 999K

Start Date

1 March 2015

Team Size

Confidential

Engagement Model

Onshore

Project Capability Score (PCS)

72/100

Good

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Client

Flemingo Duty Free

Mumbai, India

Project Summary

Sun Dew Solutions rebuilt and custom-developed a duty-free price-comparison site using the Laravel framework and delivered end-to-end development for two additional products: a free booking platform and a reseller mobile app. The price-comparison platform is stable and receives between 2,500 and 3,000 hits per day (about one million users per year). The mobile app effort has progressed more slowly due to the vendor's relative inexperience in app development. The client is a travel retail company specializing in airport duty-free stores.

Key Challenges

Find a single vendor capable of handling multiple projects end to end.
Build a price-comparison tool that handles price variance across different airports.
Implement allowance rules that vary by nationality and detect user location for booking limits.

Project Deliverables

Dutyfree.buzz price-comparison website
Crawling feature for listings on other websites
Couponing/offer mechanism for operators
Free booking e-commerce-like platform with location-based allowance rules
Proxy mobile application connecting buyers and sellers with in-app messaging

Project Solution

Sun Dew Solutions developed dutyfree.buzz, a price-comparison website that lets users select airports and products and receive comparative offers; they added features such as coupons and a crawler to aggregate listings from other sites. They custom-developed the current site version using the Laravel PHP framework and built a free booking platform with location- and nationality-based allowance checks and buyer-push notifications. They also developed Proxy, a mobile app enabling buyers and sellers to connect via in-app messaging. The engagement included ongoing development, a dedicated project head, and a monthly fixed-cost arrangement.

Project Outcome

The price-comparison site receives between 2,500 and 3,000 hits per day (approximately one million users per year).
The booking site generated around $700,000 in sales in 2016.
The primary site has been stable with no major uptime issues since initial bug fixes.
Sun Dew provided a dedicated team and project head; vendor delivery was reported to meet commitments with about 80% accuracy.

Platforms

Web
Mobile

Tech Stack

Laravel
HTML

Client Endorsement

Overall Review Rating

4.63

Timeliness

Cost Rating

Willing to Refer

Quality of Deliverables

“The launched price comparison platform is stable and has thousands of hits daily, which shows the quality of Sun Dew’s output. Due to the team’s inexperience, the mobile app dev is proceeding at a slower than expected pace. Sun Dew does offer competitive pricing and smooth project management.”
Karan Ahuja
Operations Head India
Date: 05/17/2017