Ahoy Nestorizalek!
Sorry for our recent silence here on the Nestoria blog but this is definitely a case where good things come to those who wait. We’ve just gone live with a new feature that we think will revolutionise online property search: single click house buying!
After months of development we’re very happy to finally lift the curtain on this one. Here’s a screenshot showing how easy it is to buy a house in Brighton (
click to enlarge).
Many rounds of painstaking usability testing really helped us polish the details, for example, notice how you can jump straight to your shopping cart when you’re ready to check out:
As avid readers of this blog will know we do our best to make things simple. Making the purchase is trivial, just click on the ‘add to cart’ and away you go.
The entire process is just a few easy steps:
As you would expect there is a complete
Twitter and
FriendFeed integration, for those that want to grab a house while on the on the run. Unfortunately we didn’t have time to finish the Skype/VOIP voice recognition tie in, but it is
in beta test and we hope to go live with that later this week.
No doubt a lot of you are wondering about the technology behind this innovation, and I can tell you it was not easy. Billing opens up all sorts of issues like refunding, gift certificates (so you can buy a house for someone else), and supporting multiple delivery options. Luckily we have been doing fairly well lately, and are
saving a bit of money on rent so we’ve finally been able to afford good software rather than relying on our usual unsupported and unprofessional opensource stack.
In closing, a bit of delicious icing on the cake for all our loyal users: anyone who buys more than two houses in a single session in the next day will get a free pack of
moo cards with interior shots of their new home.
Enjoy!
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Nice one - what’s the date today?
A job well done guys, great work. I hope we can all celebrate your success over some drinks at my brand new 2 million pound Chelsea flat I just purchased using e-gold using Nestoria.
p.s. smocks required
Awesome service.
Yeah. I would love to do the same with a burritos vertical search.
I think you guys have come back strongly.Its great that we can buy what ever type of house depending on our budget with just a click.I guess you guys deserve some celebration.