Produce Pal (Ctrl Alt Elite)

Inspiration

We focused on two main goals: helping Small Businesses thrive and helping restaurants and grocery stores handle surges in online orders. We see local businesses thriving with better foods as a result of their connections with local farmers because they will have more access to healthier and fresher ingredients. When restaurants or grocery stores experience large increases in orders, they can turn to Produce Pal to find local farmers to provide additional produce.

What it does

Produce Pal allows for restaurants to interact with local farmers by searching the farms' catalogs to find produce. The website also allows for restaurants to make encrypted, secure transactions via a third party system to pay local farmers for produce.

How we built it

We designed the prototype for this website on Figma and developed the app using React and NCR's APIs, specifically BSP.

Challenges we ran into

NPM configuration errors
Post request issues on BSP
Connection problems
Time management

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Collaborating to resolve issues related to get and post requests on BSP
Worked through issues related to yarn and npm on the React site

What we learned

How to work with APIs
How to use the "prototype" feature to link elements in Figma
The art of collaboration

What's next for Produce Pal (Ctrl Alt Elite)

In the future, we would like to create our own encrypted and secure payment system within the platform. Additionally, we want to implement our own delivery system between customers that is guaranteed to be safe.