Bizmate AI

Inspiration

Small shop owners often manage sales, stock, expenses, staff attendance, and salary calculations across notebooks, spreadsheets, WhatsApp messages, and memory. Bizmate AI gives small businesses one reliable command center that works both as a Firebase-backed app and as a safe no-login demo.

What it does

Bizmate AI helps a shop owner manage multiple shops, inventory, sales, printable bills, expenses, staff, attendance, payroll calculations, CSV exports, reports, and light/dark mode.

Key workflows include:

Add and switch between shops
Track inventory with SKU, purchase price, selling price, quantity, and reorder level
Record sales from inventory items with automatic price filling
Generate printable bills for sales
Track expenses
Manage staff
Mark staff present or absent
Calculate present days, absent days, daily wage, and salary payable
Export current views to CSV
Use Demo Mode without login or backend setup

User experience

The app now opens with a polished forest-themed glassmorphic login page inspired by modern product landing screens. It includes a full-screen illustrated background, top navigation, a translucent login/register card, Demo Mode entry, and a persistent dark mode option.

Demo Mode

A major focus was making judging reliable. The app includes a one-click Try Demo flow that seeds realistic shop data and stores changes in localStorage. Judges can test inventory, sales, bills, expenses, staff attendance, payroll, exports, and dark mode immediately without creating an account or depending on Firebase availability.

How we built it

The frontend is built with vanilla JavaScript modules, HTML, CSS, and Vite. The production backend path uses Firebase Authentication and Cloud Firestore. The demo path uses the same UI and state flow but routes mutations through localStorage-backed data.

Challenges

Firestore setup created real deployment issues: disabled APIs, database setup, rules deployment, and index-building errors. We solved these by simplifying queries, using local sorting, deploying rules, and adding Demo Mode so backend state cannot block judging.

Accomplishments