Pressed

Posted on Sunday, December 6th, 2020

Client	Karie Ford
Professor(s)	Reginald Dyer,
Program	Computer Programming
Students	Martin Choy (Team Leader) Zhiqiang Hu Muhammad Arafat Ali Mir Yiren Qiu Thi Anh Hong Tran Abhishek Kumar

Project Description:

Our client is Karie a local restaurant owner of Pressed – Ottawa. Pressed is a neighbourhood gourmet sandwich bar and coffeehouse restaurant frequently hosting performances and events. Due to Covid-19 Karie pivoted her business model to include grocery store like service for her local community. Currently, Karie receives grocery orders/requests through Google Forms and handles payments via e-transfers. The logistics and bookkeeping for the currently implemented system are done all on pen and paper. Making tracking and management a nightmare for her so far. She has requested simply to use an online ordering system that automates her current issues.
The system that we have developed allows customers to order online, send a notification to the owner that an order has been placed with the option of either rejecting or accepting the order. As the owner currently doesn’t require online payment so the monetary transaction would be completed by e-transfer. For inventory management, the owner can use various reports such as sales volume, number of individual items sold, top trending items etc. She can see them as daily, weekly, monthly reports and also has the option to choose dates custom-wise. The owner can also download the report as MS Excel or CSV file. This feature would help her with bookkeeping and also tracks how many items she needs to order for the next delivery/week. The system also has a delivery or pickup option. We also developed an accompanying android app that allows a customer to sign up/sign in and then place an order.
The learning experience for this project has been completely different as we had to overcome the challenges posed by Covid-19. Instead of meeting physically, we had to meet virtually which is a different ballgame entirely. The project has taught us how to communicate with an actual client, understand her requirement and meet her expectations. Each project member has different strengths, and, in this project, we tried to bring the best of each member.