Business Portal

Local Economy Portal for Local Municipalities

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openup.org.za

openup.org.za

openup.org.za

This document details

• functionality of the business portal tool
• the difference in functionality between the public portal and municipal interface

based on the accompanying mockup of the tool

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Document

Overview

Click here to access the Local Economy

Business Portal mockup

Public portal

Municipal interface

Potential Add-on: not included

Business Portal mockup

The mockup presents the tool as a complete product including the specified functionality (herein) within the given budget.

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Municipal logos may be added, and the colour scheme may be altered in order to fit in with Municipality’s brand identity.

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develop for

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first

Bearing in mind that 45% of South African’s access the internet via their cellphones, OpenUp’s online tool development policy is to “develop for mobile first”

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For this reason the mockup presents the tool in mobile format.

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Placeholder: Municipal branding

Home Page

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First point of entry into the data:

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User types the name of the business or a word contained in the name of the business

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First point of entry into the data:

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User types the name of the business or a word contained in the name of the business

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Search result will include all the companies with the text in the name that was entered in the search bar

Search Page

User selects business to access business profile page

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Second point of entry into the data:

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Users can explore business listings by filtering the data by certain classifications

• Location (town) that they fall within, or
• Sector or industry within which the business operates

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The search result will include all businesses that fall within either the location, or the sector which is selected.

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Search Results

User selects location or sector name to get a listing of businesses within the classification

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Search Results

User selects organisation to see business profile page

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User can refine the search results

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Search Results

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Third point of entry into the data:

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User can explore business listings by choosing one of the top 3 sectors represented within the economy (based on the number of business per sector)

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Fourth point of entry into the data:

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User can explore the data based on businesses located within the vicinity

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This is an optional extra, and we recommend an assessment of the data is conducted before this function is included.

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Usefulness of this function is dependent on

• Integrity & clean-ness of the data
• Accuracy of the geocoding of the data (heavily dependent on accuracy of the physical address information within the data)
• User location settings on their device

Home Page

Potential Add-on

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• Login button for municipal official for download, data editing and administrative permissions
• An option for a public user to add or edit their business’s data through a form submission to the municipality
• An option which will appear only on the Logged-in User’s menu to download the data as pre-defined reports
• A link to enable a user to contact the municipality with any queries

Menu Button

Available to logged-in user only

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Business Profile Page

Users can interact

• Via social media
• Notify the municipality of ownership or management of a business
• Access a form to update the data
• Download the business profile page

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• User can click to see physical address

Business Profile Page

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• User can hover or click to see more information with regard to that field in the data

Business Profile Page

• Only available to logged-in User

Business Profile Page

Available to logged-in user only

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Call-to-action buttons for public interaction

• This feature is not included within the product price
• The usefulness of this function is dependent on
• Integrity & clean-ness of the data
• Accuracy of the geocoding of the data (heavily dependent on accuracy of the physical address information within the data)
• User location settings on their device
• Would allow for in-field auditing of rates allocations

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Business Profile Page

Available to logged-in user only

Potential Add-on

Thank you.

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Chantal Booyse

chantal@openup.org.za

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Julia Renouprez

julia@openup.org.za

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