Inspiration
Small businesses and online merchants need a clear way to understand their checkout activity and monitor transactions. Payment workflows can become difficult to manage when order information, payment status, and merchant insights are scattered across different interfaces.
We wanted to explore how a unified merchant-facing experience could make these activities easier to understand. This led to PayPilot AI, a prototype focused on merchant visibility, checkout interaction, and transaction tracking.
What it does
PayPilot AI is a merchant commerce dashboard with a locally implemented demonstration checkout workflow.
The current prototype includes:
- Merchant Dashboard: Displays transaction activity and summary metrics using data from the local backend.
- Demonstration Checkout: Allows users to select payment options and adjust product quantities.
- Transaction Tracking: Records completed demonstration checkouts and generates transaction and order identifiers.
- Confirmation Experience: Displays transaction details retrieved from the backend.
- Backend API: Provides endpoints for application health, checkout processing, and transaction retrieval.
The application supports two simulated checkout options: Card Demo and PayPal-style Demo.
Important implementation note: These are local demonstration transactions. The current version does not process actual PayPal payments, initiate real settlements, or verify transactions through the PayPal Sandbox or live API.
How we built it
We used a frontend generated from Google Stitch as the starting point for the interface, then integrated it with a custom backend.
The frontend
Built With
- api
- backend
- css
- development
- express.js
- frontend
- html
- javascript
- json
- node.js
- rest
