The Tour Now Network
The Situation
The Tour Now Network was a startup with a vision to make online home buying easier. Virtual home tours were beginning to make a splash on the Web, allowing potential buyers to view different scenes of a faraway home without leaving their own. The business plan was simple--allow any real estate agent to create these tours for their clients in a few easy steps online, using any digital camera. A comprehensive suite of tools to create, manage and market these home tours was needed, and Igadea was the architect.
The Challenge
Design, develop, and deploy a web-based software suite allowing non-technical real estate agents to intuitively create, manage, and market virtual home tours for their clients.
The Solution
Designing the workflow for a system with over 100 screens targeting multiple audiences succeeds only with proper planning. System requirements were defined and interfaces were conceptualized before a single line of code was written. To accommodate their ambitious business plan, the application had to be flexible enough to handle single agent accounts, brokerage accounts, reseller packages, and distributor accounts. Igadea built a custom framework that delivers fast, reliable performance to support this model. After six months of system development, Tour Now's clients could create virtual home tours, print marketing flyers, link tours to major web sites, track leads, and more--all from a unified web application.