Bacagora – Classifieds App

Business Challenge

The first version was intended to be released for iOS and the application had to go to the promotion stage of various marketing methods. After attracting a certain audience to use the application, the customer planned to move to the second stage – expanding its target audience by releasing a version for devices with the Android OS.

Solution

Our engineers were involved in consulting and building an information, communication platform with over 8000 categories in different areas. The application is designed to showcase businesses, products, startups, events, services, hotels, bars, online stores, B2B offers and to find customers or buyers. International information platform gives users the opportunity to present themselves free of charge with their own products, services, shops, or as retailers.

The development team has implemented a classifieds app for goods, services, and trade from scratch. The developed Xamarin app consists of different modules and has various functionality:

• Registration on the platform is possible either via Facebook or by filling out a common registration form with common fields like Name, Surname, Company, Password, and Confirm Password.
• After login user proceeds to his Profile page, where he can add and configure some additional information about his company/shop (f.e. Add logo, company description, main directions in the activities of the firm)
• The company owner has the option to post the products that he wants to sell in his area. Users may upload up to 10 photos of the article and add such custom information as new/used products, product descriptions, and location. It is also possible to enable and disable products if necessary.
• Search for goods is available in 2 variants. The first one is the product list. In the list view app users may see the product names and images overview; by clicking on the product block users are redirected to the product details, where is also displayed contact information of the seller. Buyers may contact the seller using standard installed messengers like Skype, Viber, and WhatsApp. The list of products also can be filtered by different values (f.e. categories etc.). The second type of search for goods – is search using the map. If the user switches to the map view, he can see all the articles that are available in the selected location.
• All the goods can be added to the list of Favorites. These are interesting products that the person likes and possibly will purchase in the future.
• German is the primary language of the application. The ability to localize the app was added as well.

Business Impact

All the development tasks were successfully done according to the deadlines. The classifieds app was delivered and was ready to be used by the local retailers and manufacturers. Thanks to the idea of the customer, local sellers were able to expand the ways and methods of selling their products and expand the audience of their buyers.