Grocer Plus -eCommerce
Grocer Plus is an innovative shopping list application designed to revolutionize grocery and home item management.
TEAM SIZE
8 Members
ENGAGEMENT LENGTH
6 Months
Overview
Grocer Plus is an innovative shopping list application designed to revolutionize grocery and home item management. This app empowers users to efficiently plan and organize their shopping by reducing food waste and ensuring they purchase the right items and quantities. With features like optional notifications for food expiration, recipe suggestions, and receipt management, Grocer Plus transforms the shopping experience. Users can sync their shopping lists with preferred stores for convenient pickup or delivery, all while maintaining safety and quality. The app also offers detailed spending insights and reimbursement tracking, making it a comprehensive tool for smarter grocery management.
Goals
- Streamline grocery and home item shopping.
- Reduce food wastage through expiration notifications.
- Provide recipe suggestions based on expiring items.
- Facilitate easy tracking of shopping receipts and expenses.
- Enable direct integration with stores for pickup or delivery.
- Offer customizable notifications for pantry and fridge items.
- Enhance user convenience with automated expense tracking.
- Support receipt marking for reimbursement purposes.
- Improve shopping efficiency and time management.
- Ensure high-quality and safe shopping experiences.
Challenges
The primary challenges included integrating accurate real-time notifications for food expiration, which required precise tracking and timely alerts. Ensuring smooth receipt management and tracking posed difficulties due to varied receipt formats and reconciling expenses. Additionally, synchronizing shopping lists with multiple store systems while maintaining optimal app performance demanded a careful balance. Ensuring that the app remained user-friendly and responsive under these complexities was crucial, requiring a multifaceted approach to overcome these hurdles effectively and meet user expectations.
Solutions
To address the challenges, we developed a real-time notification system with precise tracking to ensure timely expiration alerts. We created a versatile receipt management feature capable of handling various formats and providing clear expense tracking. For syncing with store systems, we employed efficient APIs and optimized the app’s performance to handle real-time updates smoothly. Continuous testing, user feedback, and iterative improvements ensured that the app remained reliable and user-friendly, meeting high standards of functionality and ease of use.
Features
1
Expiration Notifications
Customizable alerts for items nearing expiration, helping prevent food waste and manage pantry items effectively.
2
Recipe Suggestions
Access popular recipes based on soon-to-expire pantry items, facilitating meal planning and reducing food waste.
3
Receipt Storage
Store and organize shopping receipts within the app, simplifying expense tracking and retrieval at any time.
4
Reimbursement Tracking
Mark receipts for reimbursement and easily track and submit them for financial claims or expense reports.
5
Spending Tracking
Automatically track and categorize spending, providing visual insights into expenditures by store or category.
6
Shopping List Sharing
Sync your shopping list with preferred stores for convenient pickup or delivery, enhancing shopping efficiency.
7
Pantry Management
View and manage items in your pantry, including tracking expiration dates and organizing your inventory.
8
Expense Comparison
Visualize spending patterns with detailed charts, helping analyze and compare expenses by store or category.
9
Store Integration
Seamless integration with stores for easy pickup or delivery options, ensuring a smooth shopping experience.
Technologies Used
Design
Figma
Invision
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe After Effects
Mobile App Development
Kotlin
Swift UI
Backend Development
Node js
Postgre DB
TypeScript
Firebase
Twilio
SendGrid
AWS
Final Product
Previous
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Success Metrics
200k
Downloads
85%
User Engagement
50k
Active Users
75%
User Retention
Client Feedback
The Grocer Plus app has greatly improved how we manage our grocery shopping. The real-time expiration notifications and recipe suggestions are incredibly helpful, reducing food waste and making meal planning easier. The ability to store and track receipts directly within the app has simplified our expense management. Integrating with stores for pickup and delivery has been a game-changer for convenience. Overall, we’re very satisfied with the app’s functionality and the positive feedback from our users has been overwhelmingly positive.
Andrew Parker
Owner – Brainworks