xshop-docs

XShop High Level Design

Intro

XShop is a SaaS platform for Egyptian shops, that helps keep up with Egypt’s digital transformation and financial inclusion.

Main Features

Inventory & PoS

• Shop owners get an up-to-date system to manage their shops with minimal cost
• The system consists of a portal for the shop admin to manage staff members and define different types of users like managers, cashiers, and data entry clerks
  • cashiers can create invoices for customers
  • data entry specialists enter new products available in the shop
  • the system tracks sold products and update the DB accordingly

Financial Inclusion

A portal for governmental supervisors to track the shops’ incomes and calculate taxes accordingly (extract reports)

Online shopping

• A marketplace for customers to order products online
• This will be available based on shops that turn on this feature
• A customer shall use xshop’s mobile app to search for products
• Search results shall be from the nearest shop, per se
• A user can track the status of their order and get an invoice upon payment

AI recommendation system

• Tracking user activities will help us
  • Inform shop owners/managers about products of high demand
  • Recommend products for customers to buy based on their shopping history

Cashless payments

• Integrate different online payment methods
  • For the shops to pay their subscriptions
  • For the customers to pay for their orders online

User Scenarios

• A customer shopping online
• A customer shopping physically
• A cashier creating an invoice for a customer
• A cashier receiving a returned product
• A clerk enters new incoming products
• A shop admin creating a cashier user
• A shop admin creating a manager user
• A shop admin editing their system settings
• A shop admin paying for their plan

XShop mainly consists of xshop-web & xshop-mobile, The above scenarios are described in the graphs below.

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XShop web flow

XShop mobile flow