Dukaan Se

List of shops available nearby
LIst of available products or services in a particular shop.
Checkout screen with the cart items and asking for the convenient time slot for pickup.
Payment Option Screen
Confirmation Screen provided with QR Code

DUKAAN SE

The Term "Dukaan Se" is the Hindi Transalation of English Word "From Shop".

Inspiration

Local business and shops are among one of those who were affected most by the hard times of COVID19. Due to the imposement of lockdown, a large amount of crowd were seen at the shops and some people were buying goods and products which was more than their needs and creating a shortage of the products among the people who actually needed it. As well as crowd was not following any social distancing norms.

Why This App?

In a country like India, where around 80% of the population avail the benefits of local products and services, the local shops and businesses are of utter importance. There are few peak hours in a day when there are crowds at the local shops and businesses including the offering of both products and services. In such a pandemic situation like COVID-19, this crowd not only makes it difficult for the shop owner to maintain the customer base by following the social distancing norms but also endangers the lives of the other people. Also, people waste a lot of time, by waiting on these crowded shops for their turn. Sometimes, people have to return empty-handed even after waiting so much, either because of non-availability of product or the closing time approaches. Even the conditions become worse at the time of festivals.

Advantages of Dukaan Se for Local Shops and Business

This app helps the local shopkeepers and business to schedule their customers and manage the crowd at peak times so that there will not be violation of social distancing norms. It also assists the shop owners by utilizing their free time at which there are less and sometimes no customers, by serving the pickups at that time and boost up their businesses. Also, since the application also allows to search for all the nearby available product and the services locally, hence also promotes the local businesses. Apart from this, it also helps the shop owners in stock management and providing the analytics for the same. So that, they will know about the status of the sale of each of its products. Also, it become really handy for the shop owners to inform the customers in case of any temporarily close via notification.

Advantages of Dukaan Se for Customers

Dukaan Se is a one-step mobile application that allows the users to conveniently avail the benefits of local products and services. It assists the users by schedule their pickups of the products and the appointment of services as per their convenience and slot availability.
Now, no need to check out the products manually and waste your time to fill your cart and wait in the long billing lines. Just select out the items you want to purchase on the application, and the shop owner has your products ready at your convenient time slot.
No more hustle by waiting for your turn to serve at local hair salons, beauty parlours and spas. Just schedule your appointment and went out at your scheduled time and avail the services by avoiding the crowds.
No need to search for a product at multiple shops by roaming around. Just check out the availability of the product you want, at all of the nearby available shops and just schedule and pickup whenever you are free.

How we built the App

We have used flutter development for this solution as it is light weight and cross platform SDK for mobile development. Backend of the solution is handled with the firebase, which is a cloud based platform hence it is way faster than the traditional servers hence providing a seamless and smooth experience to the user.Logistic Regression is used to classify the available slots for the pick up as per crowd timing at the shop.