Home page(Search for shops near by you)
Shop page(Buy items You are looking for)
Product page(show product description and price and enter quantity you want to buy)
add to cart(add product to cart)
payment gateway(make payment through secure gateway)
paypal gateway
your order(see all your orders ans download bill)
about us(know about us)
your products(Add products you want to sell through this web-app)
stock(Manage stock of your products)
your order(see your orders)
blog(educate site)

GrowferGrain

GrowferGrain is an online ecommerce platform which provides opportunity to local grocery and vegetable shop vendors to expand their business and sales online and their near by location. Customer no need to go out for various small items, they can order any grocery through their nearby shop from our platform. In this it help both local vendors and customers.

Inspiration

Problem of local/small vendor->We all known that how many small local vendors suffer due to less sales,material stock management,etc which effect their business.And specially when current situation like pandemic occur then it's almost very difficult for small vendors to manage.And also some local vendors suffer loses due to their lack of knowledge,wrong decision,lack of basic things like price margin ratio,proper presentation of item,customer dealing,all this make local vendors suffer from loss.

Problem of customers->Customers buy their home grocery on the regular basis and we all known how tedious and time taking task is to buy grocery from shop,sometimes stocks are also not their in shops or maybe shop are closed or maybe customer don't have time to buy grocery due to which customer face problem and lots of time waste occur due to this.Also sometimes customer not get the quality what they actually want.

What it does

Solution to vendor by our GrowferGrain->Our platform GrowferGrain helps and make it easy for the grocery/vegetable local vendors to manage their business.Our platform provide them an opportunity to sell things online and also their nearby customers. It also help local vendors to manage their stock of material and when less stock is their it will alert them.Our platform also educate the way of doing business and how to increase sales to local vendors so they can take more useful and effective decisions.Also they can view and analyse what customer actually want and analyse their price base on the market(by comparing his price with others).In this way it help local vendors.

Solution to customers by our GrowferGrain->Why to worry when GrowferGrain is here. GrowferGrain provides the customer services by which they can buy grocery which they want from the their nearst local vendors shops.Even customer can known the status of shop.Even they can compare the prices of various vendor's shops.Customer just need to select and order the item.And while talking about the delivery ,as we all known they are able to buy from their nearest shop so delivery is naturally going to be fast.In this way our platform help to solve the problem of customer and lead them to live an easy, manageable and happy life.

Feature

buy item from nearby shop(local vendor)
stock maintenance for vendors
educate the vendor
simple interface
download bill
add to cart
compare prices
secure payment gateway(PayPal)

In this way the facility,services which our platform GrowferGrain provide solves the problem of both customer and vendors.

How we built it

We have used various technologies like asp.net framework,c# and for frontend we have used html,css,javascript and Mysql database.

Technologies used

asp.net,
javascript,
css,
html,
jquery
mysql,
c#

Challenges we ran into

We have faced many challenges like various type of errors ,database connectivity problem but we have solved it with effective team discussion.
We have also faced code synchronisation problem but we have solved it with github.
Adding a secure payment gateway is the biggest issue which we have faced but we have solved it through PayPal gateway.

What we learned

We learned to use various resources to make our project more effective.
We also learnt workflow of small business.

Accomplishments we are proud of

We successfully developed difficult features like Add to cart, Payment Gateway , Stock Maintenance , Bill Generation.

What's next for GrowferGrain

Next we are planning to implement the live database.We can also include the live order tracking.
We can add some more small businesses.
We can give some offers and discounts to customers.