Launch of Property Rental Mobile App Spurts to High Revenue for Dubai Based Realtor
About
The client is a Dubai based a leading property dealer company with presence in Sharjah, Abu Dhabi, and London as well. The client contains a renting portal that acts as a bridge between both tenants and landlords. The aim of the business is to provide affordable housing and commercial solution to the people who need it and can’t spare a time on searching physically. In addition to that, the portal gives landlords a gateway to reach out to maximum users without spending a single penny on the promotion. Brainvire crafted a web application for the client and being completely satisfied with it, the client contacted Brainvire again for its mobile application.
Project Highlights
The product is a mobile application that acts as a portal between property owners and property seekers. The application contains two separate modes for both tenants and landlords, such as the property showcase, information editing, profiles etc. The mobile application is crafted in a way that the person from anywhere in the world can look into the details and search the right property before actually shifting to the place.
For Property Owners
Cross compatibility with both Android and iOS
A functionality to add, edit and delete properties with all the fields such as area, price, room details, amenities around the property, and much more
Country wise various subscription plan configuration
Details of each property such as no of customer views, likes, calls, or meetings scheduled
Image upload from real-time camera or from the storage
Integration with YouTube videos
Integration with all payment gateways
Social media sharing
For Property Seekers
Google and Facebook based authentication system
Various category based search and sort criteria to find out the correct properties
Mannual and geo-location based search mechanism
List and map view of search results
Set preference and schedule meeting options
Communication via calls, in-built chat, and emails
Push notifications and newsletters
Reviews and feedback system
The Challenges
- Payment Systems Establishment for iOSFor the purchase payment transactions, iOS gives an access but for subscription, common payment gateways such as PayPal and Payfort can’t be used in iOS. iOS provides its own payment gateway but that charges more commission per transaction which isn’t at all an affordable solution.
- Diversified Categories for search and Geolocation searchThe property search consisted of a lot of categories included. Fetching data from the database was a time-consuming task. Moreover, if the user clicks on geo-location search, the portal should take the live locations around and search accordingly.
- Issues implementing Payfort integrationApart from PayPal, PayFort was also supposed to be integrated with the mobile application. But it was giving troubles crafting in PhoneGap based mobile app. This payment gateway was unavoidable as it was trending payment system in Middle East countries.
- Display of each result in clickable dots on Google MapOnce a user searches for particular properties, the results can come both the ways: list view and map view. The client wanted to display search result, in map view where the result can be shown as clickable dot point on the map. On clicking, it takes a user to property detail page.
Tech Stack
Android
IOS
ionic
CORDOVA
Result
On-the-go portal for tenants and landlords
One platform provides options for the required details and exposure to post details at fingertipExposed to a larger audience of mCommerce
Fully functional mobile app attracted lot of users towards the businessHigher revenue generation through mobile app
Mobile app brought higher revenues than the web application in few months onlyA platform for personalized marketing
The user's search doesn’t end with application browsing. Users get notified new properties matching search criteria
