US’ Biggest Online Coupon Platform Earns Good Revenues From Chrome Extension
About
The client is the USA based, well-known online coupon portal. The portal is all about bridging a gap between the shopping stores and the users. It provides a variety of coupon codes of various ecommerce stores and the printable coupons for the physical stores. Since its inception before 12 years, the client is now one of the biggest coupon platforms in the USA with 50,000+ stores and 158,000+ offers to date. After Brainvire customized and enhanced its web application, the client came to Brainvire to construct its chrome extension.
Project Highlights
Brainvire successfully created and integrated chrome extension for the coupon platform, which works as a coupon provider tool when a user browses a merchant’s website. For example, if a user has downloaded this extension in the browser and tries to explore XYZ.com website, the extension will fetch all the offers available for that website in a list format in a small window and display them to the user. Plus, it automatically applies the coupons on cart’s page. Moreover, if the specific website is not registered with the extension, it doesn’t display its offers at all.
Each offer is displayed as per the given terms and conditions such as cashback offers, warranty offers, coupon codes etc. which can vary vendor to vendor. To avail the cashback, the extension is integrated with the e-wallet system. The users can get the cash back in e-wallet after the successful purchase of the product.
The Challenges
- Extension should get automatically enabled once user visits vendor’s websiteChallenge: Extension should get automatically enabled once user visits vendor’s website
- Fetching all the offers of vendor website and applying them on shopping cart’s pageThe extension was required to fetch all the offers available with promo codes such as discounts, warranty offers, cash-backs etc. from the merchant’s website. In addition to that, the extension automatically applies the relevant promo codes on the carts page.
- Cashback system Integration with extensionFor coupons which offer cashback, there was a complication of how to integrate the cashback system with the extension. There needed a robust system which can act as a bridge between users and the website.
- A feedback system when coupon codes are not workingThere can be the situation where a merchant’s website doesn’t accept the coupon code. In case of such invalid coupon code scenario, a robust error handling mechanism is needed with a proper feedback system.
Tech Stack
CSS 3
Google Chrome
HTML5
JavaScript
jQuery
MySQL
Result
Automatic coupon codes display
When a user visits the website, all the coupons are displayed automatically!Strengthened Brand
First feature-rich website and now an extension; both strengthened the brand imageIntegration to e-wallet
Cashbacks are effectively implemented with the integration of e-walletIncreased user base and Doubled ROI
The user base and ROI were increased via two ways; a website and an extension, both together resulted in exponential business growth
