409266 LivingSocial similar / Groupon

Hello, We are going to launch a website which will be %99 the same (design and functionality) as [login to view URL] in our market (not english spoken). That is why we are looking for a experienced web developer who is going to build a whole new website like www.livingsocial.com. The website has exactly the same idea behind groupon.com. However, we are NOT looking for a ready clone script/template of groupon.com. The website has to look %99 like [login to view URL] and also has to be have same functions. Project includes the design and coding of the regarding website. Therefore, the website's design and features have to be completely the same as [login to view URL] except some unimportant details such as city names and background pictures etc. Translation of language will be done by our self. Functionality: • As not to lengthen this plan, we don't see any reason to write a long list of functions here what can be also seen by your side in the reference website. Lots of functions have to be completely the same as livingsocial.com. Therefore, you should not overlook any details in regarding reference website. + Additional: • On the top, not as [login to view URL], a drop down menu to select city you want to subscribe to (pls. see [login to view URL]). Have a button that they can X out in top right hand corner and have it disappear. • No iphone application option + About the other features and functions what can not be visible in the reference website: 1. Flexible Back-end System: • The ability to control the site through an interface, with a secure login, so that an administrator can login remotely and update anytime (content management system). • The ability to create multiple administration accounts with different rights / privileges. • The ability for an administrator to create a new Deal for the City for which they have permission through the content management system. • The ability for an administrator to create a deal by filling some details(discussed more below in Deal Features) such as starting date, duration of the deal (in hours, could be more than 24h), price, number of buyers required (optional, if needed). • The ability for an administrator to schedule at least 20 deals for further dates. Scheduled deals will be shown at “Today's deal” page on provided date for each cities. • The ability for an administrator to remove a previous deal for the City. • The ability to specify key terms and conditions (cost per coupon, quantity of coupons available, etc.) • The ability to view all members, their contact details, and coupons purchased. 2. Manage CMS contents: • Built-in WYSIWYG HTML editor to manage contents of the site like about us, contact us, terms of use pages. What you see is what you get HTML editor creates and edits your documents just like you were writing a document in a word-processor. Add tables, images and formatted text without any knowledge of HTML. 3. Product Management & Deal Features: • The ability to create separate Deals or coupons for each City. • Required buying quantity (with quota): The 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' did not tip and that they will not be charged. • No required buying quantity(without quota): The ability not to set a minimum number of coupons that need to be sold before the ‘Deal' becomes available. • Each coupon will need the following fields: Picture; Price Paid (by the member); % Savings; Purchased; Short Description; Logo, Address of the Business and Phone Number, Remaining Time, Share deal through email, Facebook, Twitter functionality; Address of the Business (with small Google Map integration tied to the address with ability to zoom in and out.), Key Terms & Conditions (pls. see [login to view URL] under “fine print”) • The ability to restrict the time period for which ‘Deal' is available (typically 24 hrs to 7 days). • One the side, the ability to post a ‘Bonus Deal' or ‘Side Deal'. This functionality would be hidden in the beginning (may be some time later). • Coupon generator that will randomly generate serial numbers of 10 digits or/and letters, which will be given to the customer before they get their products or services from vendors. 4. E-Commerce Functionality: • The ability to facilitate payment options with direct credit card transactions (no payment information should be stored on our servers). • Payment Confirmation email once cards are charged sent to the user's email address with the amount being charged (e.g. an invoice/receipt) • The ability for members to securely purchase coupons once logged in without reentering credit card or shipping address information. • The ability for members to login to the site to view and print coupons purchased (with serial numbers of 10 digits or/and letters), personal details (name, contact details). 5. Order tracking • The status of your customer orders are notified through the email as soon as the order status changes (payment confirmation email) • When a deal reaches its threshold (not a MUST, optional for deal, which is also an another option of our system), all customers who entered their credit card information for that deal should be charged and issued their coupon. And as other purchase, they will be charged and issued their coupon immediately. 6. Email list Management: • The ability to create an auto-generated HTML email with stylized graphics-included coupon upon purchase completion, 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'. • The 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. • The ability to create an auto-generated HTML email with stylized graphics, if the customer has not been to the website since 20 days. 7. Tracking Referrals (by issuing customers a unique referral link) • Ability to note the new user signing up after clicking the referral link • Ability to manually issue amount paid for deal (by new customer) to the user's account who referred the deal (friend referral feature will automatically do this in the case of a friend signing up and making a first purchase, but in case of a refund, we need to be able to manually do this). 8. Sales Reports • The ability to monitor sales activity using detailed sales reporting tools. Generate sales summary, sales detail and product sales reports. • The ability to view number of sales, and contact information for all buyers of that particular "product" offer save buyer info into a CSV file segmented by each deal. • Ability of admin to get a list of tracking Ids (coupon numbers) for specific deal, handed to the Vendor (B2B Merchant) for the purpose of preventing abuse (printable version and specific account for merchant) 9. Site Statistics: • Ability to see how many shoppers are viewing our site and how many shoppers have logged on the site for viewing is known. Google Analytics integration (super easy piece of code to throw in) • Ability of admin to manage list of deals, cancel scheduled or active deals. • Ability of admin to view a printable list of purchased coupons for specific deal. • The ability to download data into a CSV file for any ‘Deal' with Statistics. • Intergrated with google analytics easy a-b testing for future refinements 10. Expired ‘Deals': • The system will show which dead deals to display on a "prior deals" page for that Region/City. • For each expired ‘Deal', the ability to show the client's logo, date, optional Sold Out logo, the ‘Deal' offered, the number of coupons sold, the total dollars saved. • 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. 11. Paying Vendors (B2B Merchants) • Different than [login to view URL], vendors will have also their private accounts in the website which will be given after an agreement for a deal, where they can follow their deals. • The ability to enter in payment amounts between vendor accounts and the admin account to track how much has been paid out to the vendor thus far and how much we owe to the vendor. 12. Log out • 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. • Recognization of current customers when they turn back to website and regarding cities where they live have to be choosen automatically for them. 13. Other: • 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. • Search Engine Optimization for Google, Yahoo!, and Bing web searches. • Will provide the logo/pictures/text for the site; the web designer must provide the overall design and coding as stated above. • Basic information pages: About Us, Contact Us, FAQ, Terms & Conditions etc. • The software should setup for 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 14. Expired ‘Deals': • The system will show which dead deals to display on a "prior deals" page for that Region/City. • For each expired ‘Deal', the ability to show the client's logo, date, optional Sold Out logo, the ‘Deal' offered, the number of coupons sold, the total dollars saved. • 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. 15. Paying Vendors (B2B Merchants) • Different than [login to view URL], vendors will have also their private accounts in the website which will be given after an agreement for a deal, where they can follow their deals. • The ability to enter in payment amounts between vendor accounts and the admin account to track how much has been paid out to the vendor thus far and how much we owe to the vendor. 16. Log out • 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. • Recognization of current customers when they turn back to website and regarding cities where they live have to be choosen automatically for them. 17. Other: • 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. • Search Engine Optimization for Google, Yahoo!, and Bing web searches. • Will provide the logo/pictures/text for the site; the web designer must provide the overall design and coding as stated above. • Basic information pages: About Us, Contact Us, FAQ, Terms & Conditions etc. • The software should setup for allow for easy theme customization, logo upload, web admin of daily deals and historical archives, etc. Please only bid if you are totally sure that you can build a complete website like [login to view URL] + above additional features and have done similar projects before(experienced) about the topic. We need to have the site live asap. We appreciate your sample live websites or Demos. P.S. pls see attachments. Best Regards,