Toll payment app (online portal + mobile app) | Plata RCA

THE CONTEXT

Market’s needs & expectations

Toll payments are as necessary as time-consuming. To respect current legislation and avoid financial penalties, drivers must track the validity data of several tolls (including the RCA insurance) and pay on time for the policy renewal. In the absence of an application within reach, the drivers had to go to the insurance companies or brokers whenever the policy expired.

THE SOLUTION

In order to respond to the market’s trends and needs, we’ve developed a complete toll payment app (online portal + mobile app) to place (literally and figuratively) everything at the end-users’ fingertips.

By using the complete solution, the end-users (now) can:

• calculate online the RCA’s price (with a few clicks only) - available on both Online Portal & Mobile App;
• set alerts for various tolls types (ITP, vignette, RCA) - using the Mobile App;
• access the payment history for every vehicle - using the Mobile App;
• compare RCA offers;
• obtain offers and get in touch with the brokers (not only for RCA but for other insurance products also: CASCO, house insurance for individuals, property, and buildings, travel medical insurance);
• online RCA ordering - available on both Online Portal & Mobile App.

Online Portal

Online Portal allows the customers to find suitable insurance for their cars, searching in all the major insurance companies from Romania.

The website compares the quotes from various insurance companies in real-time and allows them to order and pay online for any RCA product they want.

The website interrogates the insurance databases consuming web services, aggregates and filters the results.

We have done a lot of speed optimization so the portal can handle high traffic and a large number of simultaneous users/requests.

The admin panel is as complex as intuitive and includes several modules:

• User management;
• Order management;
• Content Management;
• Sales Reports;
• Email marketing.

TECHNOLOGIES:

The website has been built in PHP with MySQL as a database and jQuery for the front end.

Mobile App

The mobile app Plata RCA was built to extend the Online Portal's functionality (www.plata-rca.ro) and enable users to find (directly from their mobile devices) the insurance offers that best fit their needs.

The app also allows users to set-up alerts for expiring tolls (periodic technical inspections and controls, vignette, RCA) so they can safely avoid financial penalties.

Technologies

For the Android app:

• XML content type structure;
• Alarm Manager;
• SQLite local database using GreenDAO ORM;
• presentation layer: XML Android

For the iOS app:

• XML content type structure;
• Local Notifications SQLite local database;
• iOS

Features & functionalities:

• each user profile is designed to support/ include multiple cars and owners;
• based on the ordering history, users are notified when they need to renew their insurance;
• user-friendly design;
• iOS app runs also on iOS 6 and 6+.