We connected with Naif Balaula from Saudi Arabia to fulfil their mobile app development requirements. We developed an on-demand beautician booking application. It features a list of different beauticians and artists that can make themselves available for beauty service on-demand.
What is the purpose of this project?
On-demand beauticians’ service provider application assists users by offering beauty services at their doorstep. Two participants of this application are – The Customers and the Artists. This app is free to download from Google Play Store or Apple Store.
Its offerings include (1) Beauty services at the doorstep, (2) Hiring beauty professionals for a specific occasion, (3) Delivering beauty products at home, (4) Booking appointments for beauty salons, (5) Skin-care and hair-care services at home.
The artists list the service screen for select services. Customers get to select from it. This app is online and requires internet and GPS to display results on the screen;
Prime Features of On-Demand Beauticians Service App
User Panel
- Signup/Login
- Scan through beauty services
- Browse and select stylists
- Browse and select a beauty salon
- Hire professional beautician
- Schedule appointment
- Integrated Payment and Checkout
- Rate and Review beauticians
- View past bookings
- Schedule future bookings
- View and choose subscription packages
- Live Chat with the beautician
Beauty Salon Owner Panel
- Register via email-id
- View user requests
- Manage Catalogue
- Manage services
- Book/schedule a stylist
- View ratings and reviews
- Accept/decline user’s request
- Managing the price of services
Individual Beauty Expert Panel
- Register via Social/email id
- View and confirm bookings
- Accept/Reject/Re-schedule user request
- Manage calendar and availability
- Accept payments
- Manage catalogue
- List services and prices
Admin Panel
- Manage stylist/beauty salons/beauticians and end-users
- Report generation
- Manage CMS, payments, subscription packages and marketing channels
- App monetization
Advanced Features
- Signup/ Login
- Service Rating & Review
- Push Notifications
- In-app Chat with Providers
- In-app Call with Number Masking
- In-app Navigation
- Picture in Picture Mode Tracking
- SMS Authentication
- Upload Video Portfolio
- Effective Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
- Efficient Content Management System
- Multiple Mobile Wallet Integration
- Implementing channels for marketing & promotion
- Real-time Dashboard & Analytics
Why should customers look forward to it?
This app is a handy resource for females who seek regular beautician services at home or for any special occasion. It includes face – hair – nails – skin services like hair spa, hair colour, pedicure, manicure, facial, cleansing, hair cut, hair styling etc. The artists get listed according to the selected services. The app aligns one service professional for the requested service. All trained professionals target customer needs and understand customer’s requirements.
Technical Architecture of the Beautician Project
- Frontend: Android (Kotlin)
- Database: MySQL
- Technologies: MVVM, Material Design
- Framework: Laravel
- Payment gateway: Stripe
- Real-time app analytics: Spark, Apache, Cisco
- Push notifications: Firebase cloud messaging and Apple push notifications
- Voice – SMS Verification: Twilio, Sinch, Nexmo
- Data management: Datastax
- In-app Customer Care: QuickBlox Chat
- Cloud Environment: Google and AWS
When Technical Lead and Project Manager pitched in?
Technology Lead propelled the technical vision, gave directions, resolved technical disagreements, and managed the technical quality of team deliverables. They often mentor our engineers in programming languages, specific technologies, frameworks, and soft skills like leadership or conflict management.
Tech Lead’s responsibilities were inclusive of – (1) Code Quality Assurance, (2) providing architectural and design direction, (3) control technical debt, (4) ensuring code review, and (5) promote collaboration and engagement. Project Managers responsibilities let in – (1) Planning the activities, (2) Organizing a project team to perform work, (3) Delegating the teams, (4) Controlling time management, (5) Managing deliverables, (6) Monitoring progress, (7) Establishing Regular Meetings, (8) Communicating the vision with the team, and (9) Managing reports and necessary documentation. However, they don’t fully cover all the responsibilities, not even the technical ones.
It was a constant reshuffling of tasks between the technical leads and the project manager. To align the teams better – (1) they juggled digital tools, (2) resources, (3) schedule optimization, (4) activities, and (5) tasks. They ensured that the risks are in check and do not delay project delivery. We experienced a slight delay during the actual production phase, but it was kept in line with the overall organization and prioritize team tasks for success.
Overall Development Journey
As we focussed on collaboration, business value, and appropriate quality, we kept the cost of this Beauty Service Mobile App within budget. It includes the platform, front end UI/UX, Back-end, app complexity, the number of screens, design complexity, third-party integrations, testing, and maintenance.
Live URL’s
- Android: https://tinyurl.com/tazck96c
- iPhone: https://apple.co/3d6F0TL