Demo Webapp
Platform capability overview
A client-facing summary of the platform’s functional coverage, workflows, and operational readiness for this live demonstration environment.
Scope
UK property marketplace
Workflows
Search, browse, save, list
Audience
Consumers + Agents
Environment
Live demo (services active)
Public marketplace
Listings discovery
- Sales and rentals search with location keyword matching.
- Filter foundations: bedrooms, property type, and price bands.
- Dedicated listing details pages with image galleries.
Agent directory
- Browse agents and view an agent profile page.
- Consistent agent identity across listings (contact details, website, description).
Agent portal
The agent experience is designed to support day‑to‑day listing operations with clear ownership, image management, and dashboard insights.
Access & identity
- Agent registration and login with token-based sessions.
- Profile management (description, website, phone, profile image).
Listings management
- Create, update, and remove sales, rentals, and commercial listings.
- Add and remove listing images with managed storage paths.
- Agent-only access enforced for owned inventory.
Personal accounts
Sign-up and sign-in
- Personal registration and login with credential hashing.
- Simple session handling aligned to the demo environment.
Saved properties
- Save and remove sales and rentals listings.
- Saved inventory is user-scoped and ordered by recency.
Lead capture
Valuation requests
Structured capture of valuation enquiries for follow-up workflows (triage, status updates, reporting).
- Validated payloads (core identity + property information).
- Stored as a first-class record for downstream process.
Newsletter opt-in
Subscription capture for investor/landlord and content marketing flows.
- Email uniqueness enforced to prevent duplicates.
- Optional source tagging for attribution.
Commercial & overseas
Commercial property
- Commercial listings with sale/rent split and core filters.
- Agent-managed commercial inventory with images.
Overseas & guides
- Structured navigation and landing pages for content expansion.
- Designed to support SEO-ready information architecture.
Analytics
Agent dashboard insights
- Inventory counts and average price metrics by category.
- Simple chart-ready aggregates (sales by type, rentals by bedrooms).
Reporting-ready data model
- Normalized entities for users, agents, listings, images, and saved items.
- Extensible schema for future reporting, audit, and compliance needs.
Governance & assurance
Enterprise posture (demo environment)
- Authentication: signed JWT sessions with server-side verification on protected routes.
- Security headers: hardened middleware via Helmet; controlled cross-origin policy via CORS.
- Data integrity: schema-validated writes and relational constraints in Postgres.
- Operational tooling: service manager + logs for production-grade deployment workflows.
Next enhancements
The demo environment is operational. The following items are typical next steps for production hardening and stakeholder-specific needs.
Experience
- Advanced search facets, sorting, and saved searches.
- Improved content coverage and structured onboarding flows.
- Accessibility passes (WCAG) and performance tuning (Core Web Vitals).
Operations
- Role-based admin controls and moderation workflows.
- Rate limiting and security monitoring (alerts, audit events).
- Automated QA checks and staged deployments.