Buy now, pay later app

Product Management

A client wanted to create a "Buy now, pay later" app in Bulgaria. We began research from a successful app in that department - Klarna.
Having done research, our focus was to implement a feature that will help users to save products from all kinds of eCommerce shops. And get notified for price changes. With a couple of iterations between me, the client and the third party designers, we've managed to be set our eyes on a final design.

We decided to create the apps natively and have an admin panel to manage shop information. With these details, we started the development phase and I led a team of 5 people for the creation of the app:

  • 1 Android developer
  • 1 iOS developer
  • 2 Backend developers
  • 1 Frontend developer
  • 1 Designer

Together with the client we decided which information they needed to have the ability to change and update. Having discussed that, I created wireframes for the admin panel and gave them to the designer. With a couple of iterations with the designer and approval from the client we started work on the admin panel with the frontend developer.

Before starting work with the backend developer, I created an API documentation and the architecture of the database, so the developer would have solid ground on which to step on.

One of the biggest challenges here was the extraction of product data of the different eCommerce shops. My software engineering experience really came in handy. Having done my fair share of scraping websites, I knew that if we used a general approach of scrapping product data, we would have difficulties scraping product prices. So I did research and decided to use xpath selectors for the sites that the general rules didn't work. We needed a friendly interface for these rules, so we included the so-called scraping rules in the admin panel.

We've managed to deliver the fully working application in 20 sprints. Now it's live in the Google Play Store and Apple's App Store. I'm really happy with this product and the team I worked with. We passed all the cycles in creating from research to delivery.