Our Solution

Our Solution

Connecting Pet Lovers with Their Furry Friends

Our Solution

Skooby provides an easy way for animals to find loving homes by connecting them with reputable and vetted suppliers, and organisations who care about their well-being just as much or even more than you do!

In addition to that you can also find branded products, book pet care services, explore new animal arrivals, purchase pet insurance, and get personalised recommendations for pet needs. Sellers on this platform can create ads for the animals they want to sell, putting them on platform free of charge but if they use premium services then it will increase the visibility of their ad which draws more users' attention to it.

In addition to diet suggestions and recommendations, pet owners can get recommendations for health, insurance, and different services for their animals. If you have questions about your animal plans, you can directly communicate with the service provider or consultant. You will receive notifications about the actions taken on your ads.

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Key Components

Key Features
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User registration and profile management

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Animal ads

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Animal insurance

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Messenger

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Product/Service Management

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Payment gateway

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API development and Server

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Admin panel

Tech Stack

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Programming Language (PHP)

Back-end

PHP is an open-source programming language that is widely used for websites/web applications. PHP minimizes server workload and increases performance by using its own memory. PHP supports all leading databases (MySQL, SQLite, ODBC), and can be further supported by PHP frameworks (Laravel, CodeIgniter, Symfony) and many well-stocked and vetted libraries. This allows users to runs website on six different platforms at once. Among them are Windows, Linux, and, Mac.

Back-end framework, Logic

Back-end

The back end was developed using PHP CodeIgniter, which makes it easy to edit and upload content. In addition to full-text indexing and memory caches. MySQL DB is designed for high-performance websites. Our API was developed and was integrated with the database. The API logic called pets data from the server to the user interface.

Social Login

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With social APIs, users can gain access to website functionality more easily. Facebook and Google logins are integrated into Skooby's website so users do not have to enter excessive credentials and can bypass cumbersome registration procedures.

PayPal Payment APIs

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PayPal offers secure and simple online payment methods that are internationally acclaimed. PayPal payment was integrated to protect users' transactions from current and future security threats. Idempotency issues as well as online payments can be handled effortlessly with a PayPal account.

Firebase Push Notification

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We have integrated firebase push notifications in order to remind users about new animal ad postings, products launch, insurance scheme arrivals, messages, payments, and others. The FCM is required to handle messages other than receiving notifications in the background.

Subscriptions

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Digital services can be purchased within a website. To highlight Skooby user ads, we have integrated paid ads subscription packages for 7 days, 17 days, and 30 days.

Admin Panel

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Skooby's admin panel allows the admin to view and edit users' profiles, ads plans, total ads, revenue, notifications, manage animal categories, and manage locations. In addition, admins can view charts, financial statements, and error detection for all users.

How Vitec Archived The Project Goal?

Client goal

It was essential to determine what our partner's goals was in order to communicate them through features, benefits, and advantages in an authentic way. Our main focus was handling relationships between buyers/sellers, and insurance companies providing coverage for pets through different types such policies & services available around town.

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We focus more on the solution design. How can we transform requirements into user flows, how can we build a strong design pattern using MVC and how can we establish a performant user data flow. We focused on the UI/UX and which libraries would be needed to implement the design and features. The better the conceptual work is done here, the easier and more predictable the next steps will be.

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We implemented the website feature by feature based on the previously defined architecture MVC. Especially important was the focus on responsiveness and low loading times, as a lot of data should be displayed. To ensure reusability and sustainability, we used reusable components and a strong database design.

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The features were accepted through testing by our QA team upon completion. We ensured the quality of the overall solution in terms of functionality, security and performance using a full E2E test.

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A CI/CD process was used to publish the website to the server.
Websites/backends should always be staged to ensure that only working code is pushed to servers. We have gone through quality control to ensure that our website meets our 360° Software Development promise.

With Skooby IT Solution, thousands of animals were given into loving hands.

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Main Functionalities

Functionalities
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Account Management

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The latest news is available to users. They can also see details about their ads, such as title/date, price, impressions, days left, favorites, and chat requests. They can highlight the ads subscription plan if they wish to change it. Users can edit and delete published ads.

Users can see their wish lists of ads. Users can update their personal information, contact information, and location. In addition to that, users can also view their orders and check their notifications.

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Offer Animal Ads

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Selling an animal can be stressful, but it doesn't have to be with skooby's "Create Animal Ads" feature.

Creating an animal ad on skooby is simple and straightforward. Just follow these steps:
1. Log in to your skooby account and navigate to the "Create Animal Ad" page.
2. Enter the relevant information about your animal, including species, title, brief description about animal, breed, age, location details, gender, weight, etc.
3. Upload a photo of your animal. [up to 4]
4. Choose a price type such as fixed, negotiable or free and set a price for your animal.
5. Preview ad or click on "submit."

Once user creates their animal ad, it will be automatically posted to skooby’s marketplace for potential buyers to see. Customers who buy premium services will be more likely to see their animal ads at the top, allowing more and more people to see them. From there, all you have to do is wait for someone to purchase your adoreable pet!

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Offer Service Ads

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Users can advertise different types of animal care services, including Maintenance, Barber, Walkies, Pairing, Pension, Sitting, Training, and Instruction.

To create the ad, simply log in to the skooby account and click on the "Service" tab. From there, user will be able to select the type of animal and service they're offering and can fill out all of the relevant information such as title, service description, location details, photos, price types. Once user is happy with their ad, they can click on the "Submit" button and their ad will go live! Just like animal ads, customers who buy premium services will be more likely to see their service ads at the top, allowing more and more people to see them.

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Animal Insurance & Product

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Skooby allows users to buy animal insurance for their pets. A wide range of animals is covered by Skooby's coverage, including aquatics, dogs, cats, small pets, horses, and birds.

Having pet insurance will provide you with financial security in case of your pet's illness, hospitalization, theft, etc. Insurance for pets can be purchased in three forms: liability insurance, health insurance, and surgical insurance

On Skooby, you can also find the best products for pets.

Biggest challenge

Biggest challenge and our journey of overcoming

Biggest challenge

One of the main challenges we faced while working on Skooby was implementing the membership function that allows users to push their pet ad to the top of the list. It was difficult to handle multiple ads of different users and determine which ad to show at the top. In the end, we decided to iterate placement if there are multiple ads.

We also had a challenge implementing the different membership levels that allow users to have different options for pushing their ads, and also changing their visual presentation on a monthly base subscription process.

Overall, it was a little bit challenging but rewarding project for us to work on!

Most special moment in
our journey

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The most special step was the nature of the project. The idea of building a platform for animals without homes or the ability to give them a new home was inspirational. Usually, unwanted pets are left in the middle of nowhere or are brought to special animal centers where they don't experience the love of humans.

With that platform, it is easy to find a new home for an animal instead of leaving them in a place where they don't experience love. It gives national exposure compared to just local exposure. To work on this type of project is very special for each member of our organization and us. We are endlessly thankful for getting the chance to be the partner of Skooby!

We are enlighted when we can build a partnership through digital products that are on the same page and in line with our own vision & values. Indeed, Skooby is one of them. If you want to know more about partnership of Vitec GmbH with Skooby.

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Marc

Marc Roset, CEO at Vitec, loves working with people around the world to develop trend-setting and innovative IT concepts. His working methodology can be summarized as follows: "Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships."

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