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BIT - Banca PSA in tasca_

Mobile app designed for the sales force of Groupe PSA — the Peugeot, Citroen and DS Group

BIT - Banca PSA in tasca
Customer
Banca PSA - Peugeot, Citroen e DS
Year
2019
Technologies
Django
Angular
Ionic
Python
Capacitor

Banca PSA Italia was born in 2016 out of the joint venture between Banque PSA Finance S.A. and Santander Consumer Finance. The bank offers a wide range of financial services in the Automotive sector, supporting the Groupe PSA sales network in the Italian market.

Digital innovation has produced a radical change in the distribution of financial services and the traditional model has been revised to make use of digital channels.

To do this, Banca PSA commissioned Frankhood to create BIT - Banca PSA InTasca, a mobile app for the sales force that can offer financial services sellers the most effective and innovative tools to stimulate sales of the brand's products.

The application supports sellers and customers at all stages of the purchase process through a direct acquisition channel, simplifying the interaction experience and promoting loyalty.

Each seller thus has a range of digital services in their pocket, which allow them to consult documents, technical data sheets and commercial material, view monthly action plans in a new and dynamic way, download forms from the document archive, compare the cost of driving an electric and combustion vehicle, access communities, and manage the seller's personal profile in real-time, updated with the status of courses and qualifications.

In addition, from the navigation bar at the bottom, the new i-Card section can be accessed, allowing one to check the card balance and transactions, calculate the remuneration of a contract, and read FAQs.

Making maximum use of the potential offered by digitalization is now indispensable in the development and strengthening of the relationship with customers. For this reason, in collaboration with Banca PSA, Frankhood has used its expertise in user-oriented development to create a product that would bring real value to the company in terms of efficiency, commercial strength, and brand perception.

The project is part of the services offered by Frankhood to accompany big brands in the digitization process with customized tools and solutions. In this case, Frankhood took care of the development of the mobile app as well as the realization of the UX and UI.

For the creation of the app's backend, Python language and the Django framework were chosen.

For the APIs, Django Rest Framework, a powerful and flexible toolkit for creating web APIs, was selected. The advantages of using the Django Rest Framework are the ability to create APIs that can be browsed on the web, have built-in authentication policies for OAuth1 and OAuth2, support serialization for ORM and non-ORM data sources, allow for extreme customization and have extensive documentation. Django Rest Framework is used and trusted by companies like Mozilla, Red Hat, Heroku, and Eventbrite.

For the creation of the front-end, a cross-platform approach, using Ionic, Capacitor, and Angular was selected. Ionic is a web UI framework that emulates native widgets using web components. Capacitor, on the other hand, is a cross-platform runtime app that simplifies the creation of Web apps run natively on IOS and Android. These apps are called 'Native Progressive Web Apps' and represent the evolution of Hybrids. Specifically, Capacitor offers a set of web-focused APIs that allow the application to remain as close as possible to web development standards while accessing the advanced native features of the devices on the platforms that support them. 

A fundamental characteristic of this project and of the majority of the projects we carry out is that the entire base code is tested with Unit tests and Functional Tests, covering all business logic using a Behavior-driven development (BDD) approach.