Property Tax Savings .NET Application - Case Study

About the Customer

The Client is a real estate appraiser/real estate agent helping the property owners in assessing their home values and reducing their taxes. The client has been in the real estate business for more than 30 years!

Business Situation

The client felt that meeting the property owners in-person or vice versa is a time consuming process and could be expensive for the homeowner. The client wanted to have an automated system that should be an easy, quick, and inexpensive way to help property owners in appealing their taxes.

The Objective

The objective of the project is to develop an end to end web based application where property owners could visit the website and calculate their taxes. The property owners could purchase standard and appraiser reports online! The website being integrated with PayPal helps the property owners to pay online and feel secured. The affiliates registered with the website helps the property owners in approaching the counties and submitting their taxes!

Challenges

The Integration of Tax Savings Calculator would result in calculating market value and assessment value of a particular property. The property owners could enter the property address and tax savings calculator with the help of Zillow and Cyberhomes API, will display assessment value, tax savings and market value.

The application would advise the property owners whether they have to apply for tax appeal. The property owners could register with the website and purchase the report!

The end to end Web based application includes:

• Tax Savings Calculator
• Customer login
• Affiliate login
• Admin login

The customer could download reports at any time by logging in to the system. The affiliates can purchase county so that whenever a report is ordered for that county, he will get appropriate commission.

Enter DCKAP Inc

Having looked at DCKAP proven expertise in developing web services based solution has brought the client to provide this project to DCKAP! DCKAP has integrated various API services in many applications! DCKAP has suggested the client to use Zillow or Cyberhomes API for accurate market values, assessment values and tax calculations! DCKAP has also recommended Paypal Payments Pro for efficient and secure transactions within the website!

DCKAP’s Analysis

A comprehensive study and analysis of the client’s business requirements brought DCKAP the functionalities and features required for the system. The Software Specification Document prepared in the Inception phase of this project development cycle has helped in accommodating quick changes later on!

DCKAP’s Solution

DCKAP has provided:

• Easy to use web based application including customer module and affiliate module
• Feature rich Admin module

Easy to use web based end to end application:

Tax Savings Calculator would evaluate the property’s assessed value and market value with the use of Zillow/Cyberhomes API. The system would instruct the property owner whether he/she is eligible for appealing process!

Customer Module:

The enriched customer login enables to customer to login to the website, purchase reports and view order history! Order history would help the customer to keep track of the reports he has purchased for various properties!

Affiliate Module:

The Affiliate could view the orders that have been made for the counties he has purchased! He could also view the commission that he has received for each report!

Technology Stack:

Web Technologies	: HTML
Server Side Script	: ASP.NET
Client Side Script	: Java Script, AJAX
Language	: C#
RDBMS	: MS SQL Server 2005

Benefits

• Decrease in Cost
  • After implementing web based system developed by DCKAP, the client has achieved dramatic reduction in cost in reaching the property owners!

• Company Growth
  • The web based system developed by DCKAP was a major drive force for the increase of revenue and growth of the client.

• Increase in Revenue
  • The client has doubled its revenue using web based system when compared to manual process that they followed earlier!

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