Deal Zinger is a start-up web business offering shoppers information about sales and deals at hundreds of leading retailers plus an attractive affiliate program.

Challenge: This web business needed a custom, feature-rich solution capable of databasing thousands of deals and specials daily, presenting this information in a organized and attractive manner, and a means to support thousands of affiliate members including multi-level commission earning and accounting.

Solution: Regency’s web developers created a unique graphical design and dozens of HTML mock up pages to demonstrate the overall functionality of the website prior to programming. The site is based on Regency’s suite of Microsoft .NET web applications plus considerable custom programming to realize all the requisite special features including the following:

• Daily collection and databasing of deals and specials from hundreds of major retailers
• Affiliate registration
• Affiliate extranet with website instance management and preference management
• Daily commission gathering and distribution to affiliates based on multi-level payment rules
• Content management
• Automated weekly newsletter generation and distribution, unique content by member
• Web services interfaces and XML implementation