Davis Community Housing Meals and Housing

Inspiration

Davis Community Meals and Housing needs a user-friendly app to manage their inventory, allowing for clear organization by category and features to incentivize donations, creating a streamlined system that benefits both staff and donors.

What it does

The application consists of two roles Donor and DCMH staff (Admin).

Donor: Logs into the application and can see the critical to minimal inventory items priority-wise for donations these factor is based on the available products metric.

Donors, can take an informed decision based on the data represented once a donation is made the donation request will be in the pending queue until admin receives the donation.

Admin: Admin, increases or decreases the inventory items based on their requirement. Further, the admin can see the active requests for donations which helps the admin to decide to accept or reject donation requests. Furthermore, admin can see the entire history of donors made on inventory items.

The application provides guidance on helping the admin to check the recent news and relevant articles.

How we built it

-- We want to develop a easy and effective solution which bridges a seamless relationship between donor and DCMH staff. -- For inventory management, we have scanned all the items provided in the booklet and configured these records into our database. -- We have developed mobile application using REACT Native for Front-End and used Supabase for efficient back-end integration. -- Main emphasis is put on ease of using the software, which helps the donor and DCMH staff to keep track of donations and inventory items by categories.

Challenges we ran into

-- Creating a cross-platform application with responsive UI/UX design. -- Coming up with the design decisions to connect Admin and Donor parties. -- Handling Inventory items count once the donation has occurred. -- Integrating push notifications to notify users and admins when certain actions triggered.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

-- We have developed a minimal viable product that helps users and donors to accept donations with few clicks. -- Successfully, integrated notification system which helps admins and donors to keep in the loop. -- The audit system helps the users and admins to keep track of donations history and admins can contact donors. -- The mobile application makes DCMH staff lives easier to keep track of inventory items and donors.

What we learned

-- Teamwork: We have divided our tasks and actively worked on them to complete the application with the critical features with in 24hrs. -- Tech Stack: We have learned and implemented a new tech stack completely from scratch this is a challenging task for us however our mutual collaboration helped a lot to integrate the work seamlessly.

What's next for Davis Community Housing Meals and Housing

-- We want to make Donors and DCMH staff life easier by keeping track of donation delivery status using tracking metrics. -- A stats dashboard helps to visualize the donations performed, and inventory utilized in span of days, months and year.

** We see substantial potential in this application which helps to make DCMH staff and its customers life easier and we are proud of what we have built and can offer in long term**

Built With

• javascript
• postgresql
• react-native