Convention Helper (app? page?)

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Convention Helper (app? page?) #8

Open elzilrac opened 11 years ago

elzilrac commented 11 years ago

Convention helper app- needs an offline mode for conventions without internet, as well as a desktop version.

Tasks it needs to accomplish: -handle collecting emails for signup -display store merchandise and pricing

have 2 views: a tiled view of many products for browsing, and a detail view for individual items -email interested people a product link and image (eg if it's out of stock) -auto load in products from the artist's "store" on our site -email receipts -record keeping, record how many units have sold, count number in stock -calculate taxes -create a summary of convention sales -hook up to handle payments and entering shipping information (need internet)

phildini commented 11 years ago

Other requirements:

be able to work in high latency and low/no bandwidth environments
be cross-platform
NO BAD STATES! Creator should never have to debug or try to fix. Limit of fixing should be restarting the app.

Initial thoughts:

easiest way to make this cross-platform would be a webapp that makes HEAVY use of local storage.
however, easiest way to get functionality may be the go native. hmm...

elzilrac commented 11 years ago

Native desktop apps are a paaaaain. Aren't there html/js/ruby cross platform apps for android and ios?

phildini commented 11 years ago

Ah. I wasn't suggesting doing a native desktop app. God forbid. I meant having a separate web app, ios app, android app, etc.

There are lots of cross-platform libraries, but there's pros and cons with each. It'll be easier to decide on a tech stack when we can move the product requirements into firm tech requirements.

All the purchasing functionality is going to require an internet connection, no real way around it. Since internet is notoriously bad at cons, we should think about some way of saving orders, then emailing people later as a confirmation.

That being said, our starting point should probably be assuming there is internet, and then developing a version that can work without.

elzilrac commented 11 years ago

Yeah, I'm thinking not allowing any payment other than cash for transaction if there's no internet signal. But you can still queue up product notifications.

phildini commented 11 years ago

Completely agree. In a perfect world, you could allow it to run unattended, since no actual orders would be placed. People would just be queueing orders to confirm later.