LockTrip Recap | October 2018
One more month has passed and we have again achieved great progress on many fronts.
As always, we want to communicate this progress with you in form of a monthly report and thus be as transparent as possible.
October was a very important month for LockTrip, as we prepared for critical milestones such as the fiat payment feature, a major update on the marketplace and other major tasks that are running in parallel.
In the chart below, you can see the number of development tasks that we completed over the past month.
Some of the improvements we have made are listed below:
October 1
- Improved the design of the Register-Transfer-Level for the LockTrip landing page (improves data transfer between registers)
- Bug Fix: Search results with short descriptions were not displayed properly
October 2
- Comply with SafeCharge website requirements
- Bug Fix: Invalid character can be entered in property size field
October 3
- Changed environment variables to match new settings for beta and staging
→ Preparations for the Staging + Beta testing regarding the major marketplace update scheduled for October
- LockTrip announces a strategic partnership that secures 300,000 additional hotels soon to be listed on the marketplace
October 4
- Integrating a mechanism to prevent users from refreshing or leaving the page during transaction handling
- Bug Fix: Property descriptions that are longer than 4 lines get cut off
- LOC gets listed on the Weidex Decentralized Exchange
October 5
- Search-bar styles improved
- Added wallet creation feature to “create listing” and “my wallet” pages
- LockTrip Faucet gets ready for deployment
October 7
- LockTrip Blockchain Devnet goes live
October 8
- Added latest transaction link to “my wallet” page
- Bug Fix: Eliminated invalid dates in dashboard
- LockTrip publishes its first quarterly bookings report.
→ Achieved more than a doubling in the quarterly booking numbers for the second time in a row!
October 9
- Created fast and responsive navigation for the mobile apps
- Bug Fix: Countries are missing in register modal
- Visual improvements on the LockTrip Blockchain Explorer
October 10
- Create custom date-picker component for usage in the whole app (calendar for the mobile apps upgraded)
- Bug Fix: States are not rendered in the “select” menu on the register form
- LockTrip Airdrop distribution starts
October 11
- Add daily home prices for the specific range to get the total price for home reservations (range filter now takes into account individual daily prices for homes)
- Bug Fix: Initializing “exchanger web-socket” creates 2 sessions instead of 1
- Work on the integration of the 300,000 additional hotels starts
October 12
- Mobile Apps can now be searched for 12 months in advance
- Bug Fix: Empty house rules on the “homes” booking page are causing problems
October 15
- Facilities button can now toggle between visible and hidden
- Bug Fix: ‘uploaded-0’ string seen on profile photo upload section
- Bug Fix: Homes ‘selected’ image is hard coded and doesn’t change
October 16
- Rating stars color for “popular properties” is now easier to distinguish
- Bug Fix: Mobile search results are not displayed correctly
October 17
- Fixed the menu styles on the navigation bar
- Bug Fix: Star rating is not resized for mobile view
October 18
- Created conditional rendering of the credit card payment section for not sufficient funds
- Bug Fix: Cancellation fee is not rendered correctly
- Small bug fixes on the LockTrip Blockchain Explorer
October 19
- When initiating a transaction from the built-in wallet, the link to the specific pending transaction on Etherscan is now being displayed
- Bug Fix: “Delete Reservation” in “My Guest” section does not work
October 20
- Release of the MVP-Version of the LockTrip Blockchain
- Published guide to download the LockTrip Wallet and test all available features
- Published guide for the LockTrip Blockchain Explorer
October 22
- Adding feature to auto-send emails for credit card payments
- Bug Fix: Inform backend for booking requests
- Our new CTO Georgi Georgiev starts his work at LockTrip
- MVP version of the blockchain reaches more than 40 nodes among the LockTrip Community
- Received final approval from SafeCharge for integration regarding the fiat payment feature
October 23
- Creating a new responsive component for the profile and dashboard pages
- Bug Fix: Tablet view has cropped results
- Successfully conducted stress tests on the 40+ real nodes (from our community) of the MVP version of our blockchain
October 24
- Improve the socket logic to handle higher LOC rate complexity
- Bug Fix: Infinite amount of error message bubbles possible
October 25
- Create error handling when the quote for the LOC price is expired or not available
- Bug Fix: Pictures for “top hotels/homes” should not be empty
October 26
- Implement automatic quote ID renewal on the front-end → LOC price is updated automatically using a unique ID
- Bug Fix: Visual issues on Internet Explorer
October 29
- “Homes details” page modified
- Bug Fix: For some cases, prices on the “homes” search page were displayed at double the actual rates
- Major upgrade on the marketplace
October 30
- Merging current Staging front-end with Beta. Testing the result on the mainnet
- Bug Fix: Message icon is not working as intended on different resolutions
October 31
- LockTrip Blockchain Explorer gets a new section for charts (click here)
What else?
In addition to the daily tasks presented to you above, we made many stability improvements. One of them included a major upgrade on the hotels search logic across all platforms (Browser, Android and iOS).
We have also added a wallet password recovery feature:
This feature makes it possible to recover your wallet password using your seed words.
The calendar design and usability for the search box was enhanced on all marketplace versions.
One of the most visual features added was the “popular homes and hotels” section. Here we will showcase the properties that were booked frequently and suggest them to customers. In the future, this can be coupled with premium features to increase the visibility of a hotel under a “sponsored” tag.
More options have also been added on the profile section of our marketplace where you can add more info about yourself. This will get a more central role at a later stage when the homes section will become a higher priority.
Last but not least, we have separated the wallet creation step from the registration process. This will now further ease access to the marketplace and improve conversion rates.
Regarding our milestones, we have also made huge progress. In October, we received the final confirmation from SafeCharge for the fiat payment integration and have since launched the feature in early November.
Previously, we used an API from CoinMarketCap for the LOC price on our marketplace, which was vulnerable for price manipulation from certain exchanges or traders.
With the new update, prices are now fetched in real time from the order books of HitBTC. Other exchanges will be added soon.
Prices are now updating every 10 seconds to reflect dynamic changes in the order books.
In early October, we have started the work on on-boarding 300,000 additional hotels on our marketplace and aim to complete this process until the end of the year. Moreover, the integration with air tickets is also in full swing and major components of this module have reached an advanced stage.
Our blockchain team has made great progress and we remain confident that the launch of the official testnet will be towards the end of this year. Not only that, but we have also made some very promising changes on the structure of the blockchain, which we will announce in the near future.
Stay tuned for those updates!
LockTrip is the first marketplace with 0% commission where you can save on average 20% on your hotel and rental bookings compared to anywhere else. Learn how to buy LOC tokens to enable access to our marketplace and its lower prices here!
