QuoteRunner - Instant business energy quotes online
How do you provide a simple way for SMEs to manage their energy supplies?
You provide a platform for businesses to compare the best deals. Avoiding the having to call round suppliers or brokers or having to deal with brokers trying the hard sell just to then spend 30 minutes on the phone sorting out the contract.
The challenge
Cost Advice Services Limited wanted a new end-to-end method for SME customers to search, compare, select and importantly sign contracts for energy deals.
Invently know how to make software projects a success. The first step is to get a shared vision and understanding of the project and use our technical knowledge to analyse what is possible and feasible to get a product to market as quickly as possible.
We built a mobile app that works on Android and iOS. The app is integrated with various 3rd party systems & data providers to show customer deals that best meet their business requirements.
As well as providing a list of the best energy deals, the app needed to provide the easiest way for businesses to manage their supplies and sites. As well as screens to manually enter these details we used native mobile functionality for customers to also take photos of existing bills and contracts to be used to set up their sites & supplies for them.
The Invently team integrated with a tried & tested document signing provider provided an easy way for customers to sign contracts for their chosen deal without leaving the app.
How we helped
Discovery
The first step in all our projects is to get the key stakeholders in a room for the purpose of ideating and defining expected outcomes. Off the back of this meeting, we defined the scope and our technical team reviewed numerous document signing providers such as DocuSign, Adobe Sign & Zoho Sign to find best fit for the QuoteRunner product.
Third-Party Integrations
Integrating with third-party systems is something our technical team do best. As well as integrating with a document signing provider, we integrated with various other systems to retrieve available prices, generate contract documents for signing, as well as provide lookups for MPAN/MPR numbers, addresses and bank account information.
Mobile Apps
The QuoteRunner app needed to be accessible to as many SMEs as possible. We therefore published the app to the Google Play Store, Apple App Store as well as provided a web version.
Admin system
A back-office admin system was created to allow admin staff to manage customers, in app content, view generated documents, such a contracts and letters of authority and manage commissions generated.
Technologies used
- .NET Core
- VueJS
- Capacitor
- Azure
It was fantastic to collaborate with Invently on this project.
Their work is highly professional, and their technical experience shined though making light work of the app's complex technical requirements.