Challenge Overview
The client of this application is Hera. They produce various financial services to consumers for improving money decisions and making the most efficient selection of service providers.
The current project relates to the Hera Autos service, and more precisely, to the "DEALER QUOTE" part of that web-site. It allows consumers to choose needed car model/make/year, get the list of car dealers selling that car and locating nearby the consumer location. Then the application sends leads to the selected dealers (with information about consumer car choice and contacts) and performs billing of dealers for delivered leads. The dealer receives the lead and deliver a quote to the consumer (like by e-mail or phone). The dealer is charged for this service, but the service is fully free to consumers.
Previously, the business process was based on just one dealer (though quite large and represented in many places of USA) and has many manual interactions of Admins with the dealer (for accounting, billing, reporting, change dealer data, etc.). A lot of code changes were required to add even one more dealer to the application.
The primary goal of the project is to support self-registration of multiple dealers to the application and automated processing of most their actions with the application business owners. Thousands of dealers are expected to compete each other for consumers by offering better services, prices, etc.
Final Submission Guidelines
Please see the wii for the full requirements:
http://www.topcoder.com/wiki/display/docs/Hera+Auto+Dealer+Network+Frontend+Assembly+2