If time is money, you'll certainly be saving time!

Check Yourself Out! (No mirror required.)

Inspiration

Have you ever waited hours, or even days to get your check after finishing your food? Neither have we, but we still wanted to make a hack that removes this annoying part of going out to eat.

What it does

Our project hooks into existing Point of Sale systems and creates an alternative self-checkout system. Simply select the individual items that you wish to pay for and check out using our easy online billing solution.

We've also created a modern front-end in order to ensure that checkout is as easy as buying something off of Amazon. No unnecessary options are displayed, just the relevant items and payment options.

How I built it

We built the backend of the site using pure Node.js, then used Express in order to make the backend accessible from anywhere. We also used Bootstrap.js in conjunction with HTML/CSS to generate a clean frontend, and currently hook into the NCR API in order to retreive and send all of our data, including orders and products.

Challenges I ran into

Neither of us have any experience with web apps or web design, so we essentially had to learn all of these technologies from scratch.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

We're proud of producing a final product that works -- much more than we were expecting to do!

Try it out!

Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/Ptomerty/Check-Yourself-Out
Create a .env file with your client_id and client_secret
Run node backend.js and enjoy!

What I learned

Our group learned how to successfully integrate backend and frontend in order to create a completely working web-app. We also learned how to access and use data from NCR's SilverAPI.