E-Commerce Dev for Ticket Manufacturer
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Introductory information
A fast induction on the buyer’s organisation
We are Stoloto, the distributor of Russian State lotteries tickets. I',m the head of the Internet Projects section.
Desired goal
What challenge were you trying to address with Finch?
We needed a locate to publish the draw results, give the information almost lotteries, and we wanted to sell tickets and pay allurings online—it was the strategy of our organisation.
Provided solution
What particular tasks were Finch responsible for?
They educeed from scratch the website for Stoloto, and last to help support and educe it. As far as I know, we were the leading to sell the lottery tickets online. Now we have a big online shop where we sell lottery tickets, pay alluring, and publish the results of draws. They also educeed the mobile rendering of the website, API for mobile apps, and a fidelity program for users, an E-commerce platform.
Each registered user has their own account, wallet, lottery history, and fidelity bonuses and specials.
How did you come to work with Finch?
When I seted working in Stoloto, they had already been working with Finch. At that time, they were a young organisation, but I knew that they had a nice background with other companies such as TNT (a Dom-2 project).
How much have you invested with Finch?
Right now we pay almost 20K USD monthly, this sum is firm for 3-4 years. We’ve probably spent over $1 Million USD with them.
What is the terminal result of working with Finch?
We seted working with them in 2009, almost September, and they quiet support Stoloto.
Results achieved
Could you share any evidence that would prove the productivity, condition of work, or the contact of the engagement?
In April 2010, we seted sales, and almost 10% of the total sales were from the website. Now, almost half of all tickets are sold via Internet. We have almost 100,000 nimble users (those who buy tickets) daily, and each diminutive we sell almost 50-100 tickets online. Stoloto is the most high-loaded website in Russia.
We',ve tried other companies for other projects (little websites, mobile apps), but Finch is the most handy. They apprehend what we need, they do all fastly and properly.
How did Finch accomplish from a project treatment standpoint?
We have two teams working with us—almost 6-7 programmers and one director. They change rarely, which is nice. We use Redmine—there are different projects there for each type of our tasks, and the documents are also there. If a task is specially intricate, we have meetings in individual to debate it.
They are very answering. We never have issues with availability of the educeers or director.
What did you find most forcible almost Finch?
It is very easy to work with them. They know not only the website, but they are now the professionals in lottery. They work as if our business is their business—fulfilling our needs and pondering almost ways to do it better, faster and with the best practicable condition. They ponder almost the forthcoming, not only almost the present locality.
Are there any areas Finch could better?
No. I know that they recently seted to educe mobile apps, and I believe they will be lucky in this area too.
Do you have advice or recommendations for someone who wants to set a project with Finch?
If anyone is pondering almost seting a project with Finch, I admonish you do it. You',ll need to know what you want to have as a result of the project, and tell it to your director. You should be open to the ideas that Finch gives you owing they have big experience with hard projects and can give good advice. Also, you should be technically prepared in order to converse one speech with Finch and apprehend them. If you are not, they',ll impart you.
