PHASE ONE - A TEST RUN OF YOUR FIRM'S Abilities before doing the full project. We are looking to see how "CLEAN" your Coding is, we will have it reviewed by one of our in-house programmers, and if your coding is strong and clear, we will look to proceed with this project in pieces starting simple and moving forward. For first step Test, we would look at a Basic Coupon Page like the site below, with simple geography data and drilldown options.

Development of an online coupon website that would easily managed and administered on a global basis with everything built on a "drill down" type format geographically. Similar to
http://chippewavalleycoupons.com/

Each "Merchant" that is providing coupons would have their own "Page". There needs to be a "Mapping" feature. Data should be able to be parsed by someone using the website by Country/Province/State/City/Zip Code etc. so they can find the geographic area they are looking for.

There should be a back end log in system so individual merchants can manage their "Personal Page" and coupon information. Their coupon should be easily printed off perhaps pdf or some type of easily printed file.

Map Function - Starts with the World, then drills down to city/town where categories are then there to choose from i.e. "Restaurant-Type of Restaurant, Movie theater, Dry Cleaners, etc."

Member login top right corner
Login Ability to edit page and coupon
Some kind of hit counter, or link to google analytics for each page

Needs to be a very attractive website with the ability to support multiple languages. Mobile Phone compatibility is crucial.

Front end functionality:
Coupons would have the option to be emailed and/or sent via sms text message to a cell phone user. Since the coupon is a graphic, the text would strictly be text stating the offer and email would include the graphic.
- Site Users should have the ability to have the coupon sent to their phone by text etc. there would be a need for regional specific logic etc.
- Search Results should be organized by a number of different geographic options, categories, etc.
- Mapping would be important, possibly with Google Maps
- Possible comment system
- Company pages would need to be highly customizeable with the "Coupons" features being the most important, but perhaps a MySpace or Facebook type functionality, maybe WYSIWYG...
- Ability for Users & Merchants to share coupons easily on social sites like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Etc.
- Lots of flexibility in the Fields of categories for coupons

BACK END ADMIN SYSTEM
- Needs strong master account controls
- Needs good individual account controls
- Data Collection Capabilities
- Lots of Reporting Capabilities