VIRTUO

JavaScript workshop based on the french startup https://www.govirtuo.com

Table of Contents

• 🐣 Introduction
• 🎯 Objectives
• 👩‍💻 Just tell me what to do
  • Don't forget:
• 🏃‍♀️ Steps to do
  • ⌚ Step 1 - Euro-Kilometers
    • Rental price
    • Just tell me what to do
  • 🍺 Step 2 - Drive more, pay less
    • Decreasing pricing for longer rentals
    • New price rules
    • Just tell me what to do
  • 💰 Step 3 - Give me all your money
    • Commission
    • Just tell me what to do
  • 💸 Step 4 - The famous deductible
    • The deductible
    • Just tell me what to do
  • 💳 Step 5 - Pay the actors
    • The actors
    • Just tell me what to do
• Source and inspiration
• Licence

🐣 Introduction

Virtuo is a French start-up that digitizes the car rental industry across Europe via a Web Application.

The Rental car market is a key sector of the Europe economy:

• 54 billion euros Worldwide in revenue (prediction for 2020)
• 1 billion euros in France in revenue (prediction for 2020)
• Historically time consuming: wasted queuing for the rental desk, paperwork nor pre-rental inspection...

Virtuo is a trusted third party between the premium partners like BMW or Mercedes and the drivers. The application allows:

• the drivers to find a car 24/7
• the drivers to book with an one-click a car for a given period
• the drivers to unlock cars with a seamless mobile-only experience
• the premium partners to maximize their rental rate and therefore the revenue of their business

🎯 Objectives

We focus on this application feature: to book with an one-click a car for a given period.

The workshop goals are to

1. compute the rental price of the driver
2. compute the profit of the partner
3. compute the profit of virtuo

👩‍💻 Just tell me what to do

1. Be sure to have a GitHub account.

If not, you should create a GitHub account then add your ssh to your github profile for a better authentication.

2. Fork the project via github

3. Clone your forked repository project https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/virtuo

❯ cd /path/to/workspace
❯ git clone [email protected]:YOUR_USERNAME/virtuo.git

4. Open the entry point /public/index.html in your browser (that loads the index.js file)

# macos cli
❯ open public/index.html
# linux cli
❯ xdg-open public/index.html

# or by double-clicking in your browser files

5. Check the ouput in your browser console (Use Ctrl + Shift + J or Cmd + Opt + J to focus to your console devtools)
6. Solve each steps inside ./public/index.js file with JavaScript
7. Once a step is solved, commit your modification:

❯ cd /path/to/workspace/virtuo
❯ git add -A && git commit -m "feat(price): decrease pricing according days"

(why following a commit message convention?

8. 5 steps, so ideally 5 commits
9. Don't forget to push before the end of the workshop

❯ git push origin master

Note: if you catch an error about authentication, add your ssh to your github profile.

10. Check that your codebase works by checking the console output
11. If you need some helps on git commands, read git - the simple guide

Don't forget:

• DRY - Don't repeat yourself
• DOT - Do One Thing
• KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid
• LIM - Less Is More
• English only: codebase, variables, comments...

Focus only on coding, forgot the browser display (next workshop!).

Use console.log to display results (for the moment)

🏃‍♀️ Steps to do

🚙 Step 1 - Euro-Kilometers

Rental price

The driver books a car for a specific time range and an approximate distance.

The rental price is the sum of the time component and the distance component with

• time component: the number of rental days multiplied by the car price per day
• distance component: the number of kilometers multiplied by the cars price per km

rental price = time + distance

Just tell me what to do

Write JS code that generates the rental price for each driver from index.js file:

🛣 Step 2 - Drive more, pay less

Decreasing pricing for longer rentals

To be as competitive as possible, Virtuo decide to have a decreasing pricing for longer rentals.

New price rules

price per people

• decreases by 10% after 1 day
• decreases by 30% after 4 days
• decreases by 50% after 10 days

Just tell me what to do

Adapt the rental price computation to take these new rules into account.

💰 Step 3 - Give me all your money

Now, it's time to pay Virtuo

There is a 30% commission on the rental price to cover the costs.

Commission

The commission is split like this:

• insurance: half of commission
• the Treasury: 1€ by day
• Virtuo: the rest

Just tell me what to do

Compute the amount that belongs to the insurance, to the Treasury and to Virtuo.

💸 Step 4 - The famous deductible

In case of an accident/theft, Virtuo applies a 5000€ deductible.

The driver can reduce the deductible amount from 5000€ to 500€ with a deductible option for a few more euros per day.

The deductible

The driver is charged an additional 4€/day when he chooses the deductible reduction option.

The additional charge goes to Virtuo, not to the partner.

Just tell me what to do

Compute the new rental price if the driver subscribed to deductible option.

💳 Step 5 - Pay the actors

The actors

It's time to debit/credit each actor!

• the driver must pay the rental price and the (optional) deductible reduction
• the partner receives the rental price minus the commission
• the insurance receives its part of the commission
• the Treasury receives its part of the tax commission
• Virtuo receives its part of the commission, plus the deductible reduction

Just tell me what to do

• Compute the debit for the driver
• Compute the credit of the partner, insurance, Treasury and Virtuo.

Source and inspiration

• Virtuo
• Getaround EU Challenges (previously Drivy)

Licence

Uncopyrighted