Facebook app with SMS & web service integration

2012

Facebook app with SMS & web service integration

Brief

Build a custom Facebook app for a promotional competition for The Good Guys and integrate SMS and clients SOAP API.

Context

Back in when I was first freelancing for Rodeo and other agencies, these sorts of FB jobs came up quite often. It was kind of the wild west on FB compared how limited the platform is now. Back then we were creating FB apps and integrations for most campaigns and micro-sites.

Solution

This one required a fair bit of heavy lifting as it also needed:

  • PSD to HTML/CSS for the front-end
  • jQuery form validation
  • Custom SMS API integration
  • Custom SOAP API integration for TGG internal server
  • Debug of SMS
  • Testing of FB app

It was probably one of the more complicated FB apps I worked on at the time and took about 3-4 weeks in total to complete and test.