Konker Source Market

What is Konker?

In the beginning, Konker was a site for freelancers to sell their services online. Other sites like Upwork make it difficult for sellers and take a huge cute. That’s not what Alex Becker wanted to do. His idea was to create a marketplace where sellers could have their own page and sell their services freely, while buyers could come to the website to pick and select services that they needed for their marketing and web development teams.

Our team took this information and started to wireframe out their backend of the website. Since the design was already done, our team would be responsible for coding a magnificent user experience for both buyers and sellers.

Creating the Perfect Freelancer Profile Page

The “Sellers” area needed a detailed profile page with the ability to load up a portfolio, picture, descriptions of products, and so forth. There was even a catalog of services that had to be built.

Our client wanted sellers to be able to see how much they were earning as well. Part of the seller’s earnings also came from commissions on other services that the buyer purchased. So it behooved the sellers to recommend Konker as well. So we had to be able to incorporate a code system that would help sellers track their buyers as well.

It was necessary to build out the interface, keeping user experience in mind at every step of the way.

•  Seller or freelancer would sign up, then move into profile creation.
•  After setting up a profile, they would be able to add services, including pictures and descriptions of those services.
•  They got their own profile link to market their services with.
•  They could also post their services to the marketplace on Konker once finalized.
•  Sellers can track their earnings, see views of the profile, and track what services are most popular.

Ultimately, the sellers area is the main selling point. If sellers are able to easily set up their services and their profile pages appeal to buyers, Konker would be a success.

So how does the buyer’s area work?

Getting Businesses to Notice Your Services

There are a ton of marketplaces out there that sell all types of freelance services, but do they actually help anyone get a product done efficiently and fast? There are too many marketplaces out there that can scam you as well.

We set out to create a buyer’s marketplace interface that was polished, clean, and easy-to-use. We wanted buyers to go from sign up to seeing featured freelancers or being able to search for a freelancer.

We used predictive search to help the buyer look for services that pertained to the keywords he was looking for, while also taking into consideration what freelancers were most active and had the best ratings.

•  Buyers sign up on the home page and go into profile creation.
•  Once through with their profile, they can begin searching or browsing through all freelancer profiles and services.
•  The search feature has filters and sorting options to make it easier to find the freelancer that you want.
•  Freelancers have reviews, ratings, and portfolios that buyers can use to determine the quality, but Konker also has a quality score that is built into the algorithm.
•  Once a buyer selects a freelancer, they can purchase a service, message the seller, or create a new project for the seller to work on.
•  Buyers have secure payment options and can checkout in one-click once they find the service they want to buy.
•  Buyers receive notices during every step of the process: when the project is started, when hours are completed on the work, and other milestones are achieved.
•  Once the service is finished, buyers can accept the work or if they are not happy with it, they can receive a refund. They also have the opportunity to rate and review the seller.

We wanted buyers to have a smooth experience from sign up to searching, and we wanted to make it easier for them to find services that are clearly marked and labeled. The structure of the website is meant to direct them to services that they already need.

Navigation and Structure of Konker.io

The site had to be easy to navigate with different menus for buyers and sellers. In this way, the site had to dynamically recognize each other’s classification and serve up the right content.

•  Dynamic and Rich Content: We wanted to make sure that the HTML site would be able to load different sections quickly and dynamically based on the inputs of the user. If a buyer was looking at SEO services, then we wanted him to see all of the possibilities including popular services for SEO, best portfolio work from SEO sellers, and so forth.
•  Dependency Injection: We also wanted to make it easier for components to move with the user wherever they decided to go on the website. This meant that if they had previously browsed a seller or wanted to check on their order history, they could go back and see their own activity on the website.
• Higher Quality Code: With Angular, we were able to create a really organized structure for the website. All of the components are separate but work together, so that you work with child components. This makes future development incredibly easy. We can build and scale Konker depending on what new features our client wants.