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Slide's Location-Based Experiences Powered by Radar's Geo APIs and Geofencing

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Technology Category	Sensors - Autonomous Driving Sensors Sensors - GPS
Applicable Industries	Cement Retail
Use Cases	Geofencing Real-Time Location System (RTLS)
Services	System Integration
Challenge	Raise, a leading mobile payments company, launched the Slide mobile app to provide better savings opportunities for shoppers. The app offers 4% cash back instantly for in-store and online purchases at over 150 partner locations. The challenge was to make it easy for users to identify nearby partner locations, receive cash back reminders as they shop, and identify the correct barcode when they reach checkout. To achieve this, Slide needed a comprehensive location infrastructure solution for their mobile payments app. The solution needed to be robust, cost-effective, and capable of powering all of the app’s location-based experiences. Read More
About Customer	Raise is a leading mobile payments company that enables consumers to save money and earn rewards on every purchase. In pursuit of its mission to provide better savings opportunities for shoppers, Raise launched the Slide mobile app, the most rewarding, contactless way to pay for everyday purchases in-store or online. Slide offers 4% cash back instantly for in-store and online purchases at over 150 partner locations. Slide makes it easy for users to identify nearby partner locations, receive cash back reminders as they shop, and identify the correct barcode when they reach checkout. Read More
Solution	Slide chose Radar as their solution provider. Radar provided Slide with robust geofencing capabilities and flexible geo APIs required to power all of the app’s location-based experiences. The solution included Places for out-of-the-box geofences for all of Slide’s partner locations, Search API querying Radar’s Places database to power nearby partner feed, developer-friendly SDKs & documentation, and integrations with existing tools including Amplitude, Airship, Branch, and Segment. With Radar's Search API, Slide users could find nearby partner locations ahead of their next shopping trip. The Search API allowed Slide to easily search Radar Places and identify partner locations within a configured radius of a location. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Sensors - Autonomous Driving Sensors

Sensors - GPS

Applicable Industries

Cement

Retail

Use Cases

Geofencing

Real-Time Location System (RTLS)

Services

System Integration

Challenge

Raise, a leading mobile payments company, launched the Slide mobile app to provide better savings opportunities for shoppers. The app offers 4% cash back instantly for in-store and online purchases at over 150 partner locations. The challenge was to make it easy for users to identify nearby partner locations, receive cash back reminders as they shop, and identify the correct barcode when they reach checkout. To achieve this, Slide needed a comprehensive location infrastructure solution for their mobile payments app. The solution needed to be robust, cost-effective, and capable of powering all of the app’s location-based experiences.

About Customer

Raise is a leading mobile payments company that enables consumers to save money and earn rewards on every purchase. In pursuit of its mission to provide better savings opportunities for shoppers, Raise launched the Slide mobile app, the most rewarding, contactless way to pay for everyday purchases in-store or online. Slide offers 4% cash back instantly for in-store and online purchases at over 150 partner locations. Slide makes it easy for users to identify nearby partner locations, receive cash back reminders as they shop, and identify the correct barcode when they reach checkout.

Solution

Slide chose Radar as their solution provider. Radar provided Slide with robust geofencing capabilities and flexible geo APIs required to power all of the app’s location-based experiences. The solution included Places for out-of-the-box geofences for all of Slide’s partner locations, Search API querying Radar’s Places database to power nearby partner feed, developer-friendly SDKs & documentation, and integrations with existing tools including Amplitude, Airship, Branch, and Segment. With Radar's Search API, Slide users could find nearby partner locations ahead of their next shopping trip. The Search API allowed Slide to easily search Radar Places and identify partner locations within a configured radius of a location.

Impact #1	By integrating Radar for Geofencing, Slide was able to save significant engineering time that would have been dedicated to building location tracking functionality for both iOS and Android devices, creating and maintaining a POI database that contains all locations of Slide’s 150+ partners, developing the backend infrastructure needed to process location data, and managing event data and creating custom webhooks to send events to Segment and Amplitude. Slide realized additional time and cost savings associated with choosing an all-in-one solution. The Radar platform was a one-stop shop for all of Slide’s location needs, including geofencing and Geo APIs powering Search. Using Radar eliminated the need to manage multiple vendors and integrations. The Slide team was able to design, build, test, and launch a complete location-based product offering in just one month. Radar enabled Slide to accelerate time to value and drive store visits, engagement, and revenue quickly and cost-effectively.

Impact #1

By integrating Radar for Geofencing, Slide was able to save significant engineering time that would have been dedicated to building location tracking functionality for both iOS and Android devices, creating and maintaining a POI database that contains all locations of Slide’s 150+ partners, developing the backend infrastructure needed to process location data, and managing event data and creating custom webhooks to send events to Segment and Amplitude. Slide realized additional time and cost savings associated with choosing an all-in-one solution. The Radar platform was a one-stop shop for all of Slide’s location needs, including geofencing and Geo APIs powering Search. Using Radar eliminated the need to manage multiple vendors and integrations. The Slide team was able to design, build, test, and launch a complete location-based product offering in just one month. Radar enabled Slide to accelerate time to value and drive store visits, engagement, and revenue quickly and cost-effectively.

Benefit #1	Saved over 1,000 hours of engineering time
Benefit #2	Enabled over 150 chains
Benefit #3	Designed, built, tested, and launched a complete location-based product offering in just one month

Benefit #1

Saved over 1,000 hours of engineering time

Benefit #2

Enabled over 150 chains

Benefit #3

Designed, built, tested, and launched a complete location-based product offering in just one month

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Slide's Location-Based Experiences Powered by Radar's Geo APIs and Geofencing

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