Challenge Overview
Hera would like a to implement a widget that allows a user to find out interest rates for auto loans based on a users state, credit rating, and loan type. The widget will be embedded on a number of high profile sites and we will also define functionality for a user to generate HTML so they can embed the widget on any site
Widget requirements
1) The widget should be able to live on any website (LendingtreeAutos.com, MSN.com, yahoo.com)
2) The default rates will be the lowest rates available at the time.
3) The widget will collect consumer zip code, loan type, and consumer credit rating.
4) Loan rates will be pulled from DB based on criteria above and displayed to consumer on the result page.
5) The consumer will get in touch with the lender via phone or lender's website (or both). Therefore, on the result page, we'll have to provide hyperlink(s) to display those. Each link click will be tracked for billing purposes.
6) Need to be able to track consumer source and actions
7) Rate data in DB will be provided to us by several partners; therefore, we'll need to have a way for them to do that through REST-based web services
8) Some partners will require us to pull the data from them instead, so we'll have to have a mechanism to do that. We don't have specifics on this now, but this should be covered in the specification
9) We also need the ability to easily change the colors of the widget. For example, if the widget is on yahoo.com, the colors can be changed to go with their theme.
Final Submission Guidelines
Please see the wiki for the full requirements:
http://www.topcoder.com/wiki/display/docs/Hera+Lending+Tree+Autos+Rate+Widget+Module+Architecture