CashCan

Posted on Monday, August 2nd, 2021

Client	Dakota Sinclair
Professor(s)	Adam Jarvis,
Program	Interactive Media Design
Students	Jennifer Lim-Tamkican Kyler Gaboury Gary Wu Trang Le Marilia Gil Pimentel

Project Description:

The client for the CashCan application is Dakota Sinclair. He was inspired by the people in his surrounding environment who lacked the transportation or access to be able to contribute to the recycling process/missing out on the profit for the returns. A lot of his friends are college/university students, who live in areas that are not conveniently located to return depots and that consistently accumulates empties that are just taking up space in their homes.

The users for the application ranges from a seller side consisting of students who don’t have access to return depots or lack the transportation to carry the empties to a depot as well as on the driver side, individuals with access to those resources, with some free time looking to make some extra cash on the side.

The application was designed to combine the selling and the pickup service into one app so users have the choice to participate in either side of the transaction.

CashCan app users can:

As a Driver:
– See seller’s listings on an interactive map
– Guides driver to pickup locations and facilitates the payment transaction for purchasing the empties.
– Purchase empties by either adding funds to their wallet OR a single time charge to their credit card

As a Seller:
– List empties on the application
– Receive credit for successful sale of empties

By connecting the driver and the seller directly in a way that allows sellers to create listings for their empties and drivers to view all the listings in their area, it will facilitate the exchange in order to complete a return.