Dovrsign

Dovrsign is a public E-Commerce Kiosk Application.

Dovrsign is an Android Kiosk Application created to present a retailer's entire product catalog to its store visitors and for staff use. Its designed to present E-Commerce like features including checking out to a POS system and posting revenue to their accounts. The application is built to work with the Shopify platform and Dovr Media's in-house catalog-publishing application because these two are already used together to keep our Shopify stores updated. The kiosk app updates its product catalog every day, with the latest pricing changes, newest products, and up-to-date product information. This application can be used on kiosk machines like ELO, tablets, and smart-phones.

How to complete this?

We use Shopify's Admin API to work with our catalog publishing application and together we post this catalog data to the kiosk application, which will format the data to a SQLite table, ready to access everyday. Any changes to the data done on their servers would be reflected on the kiosk app. Push notifications are used to notify the application internally to perform a series of tasks in the background including requesting data refresh on demand. Then, build out the features of the application including pages to display their catalog items, a product page, show different variant options per item, filters, search bars, and patterns to display relevant products based on the currently viewed item.

Integration of Shopify's POS was also required to checkout items on the spot. Shopify posts their purchases on their Orders API so they'll also show up on their admin portal. Users are able to create a wishlist and save it to themselves while the retailer tracks it for their sales department.

• Research for UX/UI Designs

  Learn how an E-Commerce application works, both from our competitors and from other companies to integrate into our design of the application. That includes features required for any E-Commerce app like searching based on SKU numbers, titles, displaying variant options like color, firmness options, and organzing the navigation of products with collections and filters.

• Build the application

  Choose Android as the platform to build the application because alot of the kiosk machines run on Android OS. Piece together the features that would help view the products, its information, variant options, and the capabilities to search them as well as checkout with them using Shopify's POS. Afterwards, create a wishlist system that tracks items saved by the user and sends this data to the retailers for sales purposes. Finally, create a automation system to request new data daily to keep it recent/up to date.

• Testing

  Test the application on a kiosk machine and start tests with selected retailers to collect feedback and improve design.