Umego: Social Experience Platform

Umego is a web-based social experience platform that connects people in Hong Kong, having similar interests in the different activities such as yoga, coffee brewing, and cycling.

How Umego Helps its Users

Umego aims to enhance the online social experience. To make this platform fast and secure, the Yii2 framework is used. One of the highlighting features of this web solution is ‘Umego experiences’ where users share experiences with others based on their interests.

Here are the top benefits this web solution offers.

Book for different activities (also known as ‘experiences’) and enjoy them with like-minded people. The combination of the Yii2 framework and Stripe payment gateway takes this web solution to the next security level
Different features such as wishlist, and features enhances the user experience of users and help to increase conversions
Purchase and instantly activate vouchers directly from your email inbox

Solution Provided

Web Solution

Development Team

7 Team Members

Technologies

PHP | Yii

Time

2 Years

About Umego

Umego’s ultimate goal is to transform social experiences and reconnect with people in real life. Unlike other social networking websites, Umego helps to reconnect people and offers the option to register for different activities.

Apart from activities, you can suggest dating ideas to another person from the app as well. Once you login, suggest ideas like romantic, fitness, adventure, etc. If another user prefers the idea, the person will like that idea and your profile will match. Afterward, chat or video call with your date and discuss things further.

Instant Voucher Delivery via Email

Free Voucher
Exchanges

Multilingual
Support

The Challenges Faced By a Client

Our client wanted to build a solution to explore new places and activities with new people. But not like the other dating apps. Here are the challenges that our client addressed

In Hong Kong, there was no web-based social experience platform connecting people with similar interests in different activities. So he wanted to create one such platform.

On the top dating solutions, he had observed a challenge of fake profiles issue. He wanted a web portal where all the profiles are verified to make the overall user experience safe and secure.

Umego – An Ultimate Social Experience Platform

Technology Stack

To build a data-driven solution that process and execute information smoothly, we selected PHP and its Yii framework. This web technology is easy to scale and provides a robust architecture when it comes to creating a web app. Check the following table to know detailed information about the technology stack we used for Umego.

PHP

Yii

MySQL

AWS

Stripe

Quickblox

Twilio

Features of Umego for Admin

Manage users, owners offering different activities, and promotional activities directly from the dashboard.
Here are the top features of admin included in the Umego.

Category Management

Manage multiple categories of options from the panel. Check different experiences and gift ideas directly from the admin panel. Manage the experience listing, set time duration, and pricing from the same option.

Coupon Management

Promotion management plays a crucial role in marketing and revenue generation. By managing codes, expiration dates, and user-wise promotions, manage your coupons and discounts effectively.

Create Shop Users

Every experience and idea sold on the portal will have shop owners. Create shop users, manage, and monitor their sales performance. Activate, and deactivate shop users’ profiles according to their activities.

Gift Idea Management

List different gift ideas, set prices, and choose location and categories directly from the admin panel. Get the complete flexibility to add, remove and edit any gift ideas. Change the listing according to your preference. Add or remove the filter, occasion according to your choice.

Features of Umego for Users

Here are the top features for users.

Unique Dating Experiences

Are you looking for a group of friends or a person for various activities such as ball games, hikes, or even adventures? Book unique dating experiences with various exciting activities to keep yourself entertained for an extended period of time.

Free Vouchers to Spend With Someone Anonymous

With Umego, you will have anonymous date options. In that, you just have to create a date idea, sit back, and wait for your perfect match! Someone with a similar interest will come to you anonymously.

Gifting Options for Your Potential Partner

Do you love to give surprises to others? Umego gives an ultimate solution for that. Purchase a specific experience card you would like to gift your partner. To gift a voucher, simply share the voucher code with your partner. To avail experience, your partner can simply add that coupon code to his account.

Search Voucher

Searching for the experience vouchers? Umego offers advanced search functionality to help users search for vouchers of their choice. This search functionality even suggests vouchers as per the user’s inputs.

See Who Liked Your Idea

See the list of people who have similar interests as you and like your idea or vouchers. Receive messages from the people interested in your idea, and socialize with them.

Wishlist

Planning to postpone a purchase? Adding favorite vouchers and experiences to your wishlist will help you to remember your potential purchases. Even, special discounts and offers will be directly applied to the products on the wishlist to encourage purchase.

Features of Umego for Shop Owners

Here are the crucial features of shop owners.

Vendor Admin Panel

Shop admin can only monitor the coupons created by the admin and analyze how many users purchased those coupon. Also, the vendor admin can also monitor who exactly bought and redeemed the coupon as well.

Manage Promotional Activities

It is essential to monitor coupon and promotional activities. Shop owners can check the coupon information along with the users to monitor how coupons are availed. Apart from that, there are monthly statistics to show the total numbers of coupons used during that time.

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