GoodSole

Inventory Analytics
POS sample
Item lookup
Login screen
Shoes database

Inspiration

Our solution is built for small business owners wanting to venture into economical and effective cloud-based inventory management systems. Our application was designed to optimize their point-of-sale systems and take a step towards dynamic cloud-based systems. We used Azure cloud for hosting our web app and the Azure PostgreSQL flexible server.

What it does

Our retail inventory program efficiently manages stock levels, and provides transaction insights for barcode-based product identification, and incorporates customizable search options for customer preferences. This ensures users access quality and affordable products tailored to their search criteria when seeking employee assistance. A web based application allows for cross-compatibility with a variety of different devices and hardware setups.

How we built it

Our application is a python-based dynamic web application. It is a flask web app linked with a PostgreSQL database. This database contains generated user, inventory, and transaction history details for analytics.

Challenges we ran into

Cloud integration is way harder than we thought it would be! We had to pivot last minute (3 hours to deadline!) to try to have an effective project.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Our team came from a wide variety of backgrounds, so our collaboration ensured everyone had an opportunity to participate. Everyone was able to contribute positively to a fun development piece!

What we learned

Our team entered this project with minimal web development and flask knowledge. We had absolutely no knowledge of Azure services and their capabilities. We learned the difficulties of integrating with Azure and general web development, and provided an introduction to the different abilities of Python through Flask!

What's next for GoodSole

Future developments will include more accurate and a wider variety of analytics based on the transaction history table. Due to the short development period, further user testing is required to bring this application to production.