The client wanted a mobile app that could be used by their Retail Managers to capture a checklist of details on each store visit via survey details, pictures with comments as well as status of previous open tasks. The mobile application was developed for iOS and Android in English and Simplified Chinese languages to cater to both Southeast Asia as well as China markets.
The client is an American multinational footwear company with their regional headquarter in Singapore. The client is a world leader in innovative casual footwear for women, men and children. They offers a broad portfolio of all-season products, while remaining true to its core molded footwear heritage. Their footwear can be found across the globe and in more than 120 styles for men, women and children. With distinct collections, the client offers colourful, lightweight comfort for any occasion and every season.
The application empowered the retail organisation to visit store and have a checklist to review with store personnel. The mobile application includes survey questions that can be filled, and pictures of Visual merchandize, layouts that must be captured, commented and replied to.
The mobile application was developed for both most widely adopted operating systems iOS and Android and developed in both English and Simplified Chinese Languages to cater to various countries in Southeast Asia and China for the surveyor and store employees. It provides a web application for the Admin. Management staff could use either the mobile App or the Web Application.
The App allows the surveyor to conduct the evaluation at the store, providing score and actions against each item in the checklist. The surveyor would be able to take photographs using the phone camera against each action item.
The App also allows the user to select a store to view the action items and details.
Survey viewer has the ability to download the photographs attached to an individual evaluation using the web application. The management can also generate reports in PPT format directly from the application for submission to their management.
The project was successfully designed and developed over a period of 6 months. The App empowered the business users to convert the entire manual survey process to automated process to further improve the speed of survey, high efficiencies in moving from one step to the next to complete surveys. The report generation is also automated to save mush time for the entire business function and management reporting.
The mobile application was developed using Flutter, Python 3.6, HTML5, Angular 8.0, MS SQL Server. The web application was hosted in MS Azure Cloud while the mobile application is available at the Google Play Store and Apple App Store to authorised user only. As the App is available to client’s internal users inly, it is also integrated with their SSO for user authentication.
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