Current Choice
WEBSITE
LAUNCH DATE
3/5/2015
INDUSTRIES
Utilities
SKILLS
Kentico CMS
ASP.NET
Web API
ASP.NET
Web API
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The purpose of the project
The idea behind this project was to allow residents to choose the best fit for electrical power consumer plan.
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Client
CurrentChoice is an online marketplace that lets customers compare electricity suppliers' pricing and switch. Our Bill-to-Bill comparison tool can get a customer's past 12 months of usage from their utility in real time and present all product comparisons using their past usage.
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Project goals
Project goal was to switch as many consumers as possible to a better plan by analyzing last 12 month consumption and locating the most suitable plans, providing side-by-side comparison and forecasting further fees based on last year consumption data.
Once a user makes a decision, the system allows to switch to a new plan online.
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Key challenge
The biggest challenge was the amount of integrations with 3rd party systems:
- Services that allows getting users’ consumption data, so no need to enter it manually
- Multiple suppliers and utilities API in order to get available plans, their terms and conditions, pricing
- Multiple suppliers and utilities API to perform actual switch to a new plan
Another challenge was related to the fact that suppliers and utilities are available in part... The biggest challenge was the amount of integrations with 3rd party systems:
- Services that allows getting users’ consumption data, so no need to enter it manually
- Multiple suppliers and utilities API in order to get available plans, their terms and conditions, pricing
- Multiple suppliers and utilities API to perform actual switch to a new plan
Another challenge was related to the fact that suppliers and utilities are available in particular locations as well as plans might be also available only in certain areas.
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- Services that allows getting users’ consumption data, so no need to enter it manually
- Multiple suppliers and utilities API in order to get available plans, their terms and conditions, pricing
- Multiple suppliers and utilities API to perform actual switch to a new plan
Another challenge was related to the fact that suppliers and utilities are available in part... The biggest challenge was the amount of integrations with 3rd party systems:
- Services that allows getting users’ consumption data, so no need to enter it manually
- Multiple suppliers and utilities API in order to get available plans, their terms and conditions, pricing
- Multiple suppliers and utilities API to perform actual switch to a new plan
Another challenge was related to the fact that suppliers and utilities are available in particular locations as well as plans might be also available only in certain areas.
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Our solutions
To integrate with all 3rd party API’s and services we had to unify all their interfaces into a single generic interface that our application used to communicate with them. In most cases we had to implement a unique adapter for 3rd party services, but utilizing them within the app was the same for all of them. Dependency injection and design patterns were quite handy for this project and allowed us to build flexible and extendable solution.
