IS480 Team wiki: 2012T1 Shopaholic Development
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Initial Brainstorm
We have decided to improve the current spree model. However, there are 2 approaches we could take as follows:
Path 1 - Providing a plateform as a common meeting place
Providing a Platform for Spree Organizers and Participants to Meet and Transact
Path 2 - Function as a Spree Organizer
We are the SOLE Spree Organizer handling all transactions with Participants
Our Chosen Path
Path 1 - A Portal for Spree organizers and Participants to meet
We will be taking Path 1.
We would function as a spree Organizer, and handle the order consolidation, ordering and shipping of items to customers.
Model 2 would involve us having to do all the handling of sprees. We would not have the time to do it. Also, some establised spree organizer has already set up their own sites to conduct sprees. Hence, if we were to go with this idea, it would not be original, and it not substantial and benefitial at all.
We have decided to go achead with spree model 1, to creat a plateform where spree organizers and participants can meet and transact. This model would be self-sustaining, with us just maintaining the portal. Currently sprees are being carried out on livejournal, blogs and forums. It is messy, as it is rather difficult to find specific sprees to join when you want it, as it may be unavailable, or the post has been pushed down in ranking.
This portal would serve as a one-stop portal where people could organize or join spree easily. Our portal would provide the following functions, to ease the spree-ing process:
For Spree Organizers | For Spree-ers |
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'Pin-It' Function to add item from merchant site into own shopping cart | Order Management system to consolidate orders |
Paying for orders easily without the hassle of adding new payee each time for when spree-ing with different spree organizer | Easy consolidation of funds from a spree. Do not need to manually check for payment from each spree-er |
Participants would be able to rate Spree Organizer upon completion of spree. Spree-er is also able to raise disputes if necessary, which would hold the funds to be given to spree organizers | Rating of Participants to establish one's reputation in reliability when organizing sprees. |
Participants would no longer have calculation error when calculating required amount to pay to Spree Organizer |
The New Spree-ing Process
For Spree Organizer
For Spree-er
Function List
Pin-It Framework |
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Information Extraction |
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Error Reporting |
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Shopaholic Portal |
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User Management |
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Cart Management |
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Spree Management |
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Credit Management |
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Administrator Functions |
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Customer Support |
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The "Tag & Bag" Plugin
Flow of events when the "Tag & Bag" Button clicked
How data is Captured
Step 1 | Step 2 | Step 3 | Step 4 |
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