Book Exchange Place

Project Type

Book Exchange Place is an online website where It’s a lot easier to find a great price on a second-hand textbook, than it is to sell your used textbook for the same great price. Bookstores and online buyback programs, buy your textbook for under half of what they then sell it for, marking the price up so that they can cover their additional expenses. Post your second-hand textbooks on our site, where students taking the course next can find it and make you an offer for your book. You have the choice to accept an offer that is made, or you can make a counter offer. Once you have both reached an agreeable price, you can arrange to meet on campus.

Key Challenges

• Providing a secure system that prevents unexpected crashes as there was a big database of books in various categories & subcategories.
• To keep the system updated about sold & existing books was also a big concern.

Proposition & Solution

• We developed a solution in book exchange that once a seller receives notice that a listed book has been sold, the seller must notify the buyer via e-mail within 48 hours that the purchase is noted.
• Shipment of the order must be made within 24 hours after the seller sends the notification e-mail. The seller sends a notification to the buyer and system when the shipment is made.

Our Development Process

• The Discovery Phase- Our business analysts performed a lot of research and brainstorming before the app development process. At the end of the discovery phase the “Who, Why, What, When and Where” of the project were thoroughly scrutinized.
• The Execution Phase- After gathering all the nuts and bolts to proceed, it was time for project execution. Our designers, developers and quality analysts followed agile development process for execution and worked side-by-side to achieve the project aims. Our project managers also did regular reviews to check the progress of the project went smoothly and according to the time.
• Sprint Base Project Delivery-We took client’s feedback on each stage of development and applied the feedback in the project. It helped us to meet the client’s expectations in the best possible manner.
• The Deployment Phase- Now, app was ready to be unleashed to the world after rigorous development & testing period. We deployed the app in the appstore.

Salient Features

• People who want to buy books come to the site and search for the books they want. When they decide to buy, they must open an account with a credit card to pay for the books. The system maintains all of this information on secure servers.
• When a purchase is made, system sends an e-mail notice to the seller of the book that was chosen as well as payment information. It also marks the book as sold.

Results & Benefits