VRG Course Service

The VRG Crimen course service is organized by and for students. They sell everything you need for your law or criminology studies. VRG is also one of the largest student association in Belgium.

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The VRG Crimen course service is organized by and for students. They sell everything you need for your law or criminology studies. VRG is also one of the largest student association in Belgium.

Although they’re located in Leuven and all their members attend law Studies at the KULeuven, they sell their books throughout the entire country! Even professors at Ghent University or the University of Brussels refer to the VRG course service.

Client Needs

Because of the 2020 Corona Virus pandemic, VRG was looking into good alternatives to organize their yearly course sales. VRG sells all the books you need to study Law at the University of Leuven. Because of Corona, people are not allowed to come by the store themselves. With the new webshop, people can purchase their products online and select a pick-up date. This makes it so the organization can lock specific dates with a maximum amount of people per day. for example, max 10 people can come pick up their order each hour.

Of course, the entire shop is completely editable by the organization. They can easily manage users, orders, backorders, and products. They can add discounts on the fly or manually edit user-profiles in case someone becomes a member of VRG on the spot and becomes eligible for the member discount)

Authentication

Only students at the KULeuven are allowed to purchase books from the webshop. In order to make sure only students are making a purchase, we required authentication on the webshop through the KULeuven portal. Students can use the same login as they do within the School network to log in to our website. This forces students to have a valid KU-Leuven login before making a purchase.

Every KU-Leuven association has a KULeuven login. This makes it possible for students in Ghent or Brussels to make a purchase as well.

Member Discounts

VRG is one of the largest student association in Belgium. But of course, not all students at the university are a member of the student association. To promote students to become a member of VRG, they can add discounted prices to articles that will apply automatically for their members only.

Their KULeuven account, which they also use to login to the website, will be automatically checked behind the screens to see if their student account is a valid member of the VRG Association. We check if their student number has a matching member-card number. This way we don’t require any extra steps from the user, but they automatically get their discounts applied at checkout if they are a member.

People who aren’t a member will receive a message they are missing a special membership discount if they continue to purchase without membership card.

Result: A beautiful webshop!

This project had a strict deadline of one month and required a lot of external integrations like the authenticating service with the KULeuven and their membership portal. Together with VRG we finetuned the design of the webshop based on their current vrg.be website. Resulting in a beautiful new online store!

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VRG Course Service

Role

Agency

Client Needs

Authentication

Member Discounts

Result: A beautiful webshop!