Portal

With our portal, we want to support local authorities and merchants. We want to connect merchants with closed stores to their customers. And we want to keep in mind, that not every merchant has a sophisticated digital strategy - or even a homepage.

Cornerstones of the project

• Local authorities can register in our portal and get their own sub-portal
• Within each local authorities' sub-portal merchants can register
• Merchants can create a profile, describe their store and their offerings
• Customers can find merchants within a local authorities portal
• In additional iterations, we can add e-commerce functionality
• The project is divided into two main components
  • The customer-facing site is based on Shopware
  • The merchant / local authority facing site communicates via APIs to Shopware

Project Overview

The project is divided into two main components - The customer-facing site is based on Shopware - The merchant / local authority facing site communicates via APIs to Shopware

Another non-software component would be the hosting

Portal for merchants

• Landing page, where local authorities can sign up to the portal.
  • Goal: Mail to the provider of the portal (e.g. Shopware), so that the sub-portal for the local authority can be set up
  • Each local authority could be a SalesChannel in Shopware
• Onboarding of merchants within a local authority
  • Goal: Merchant can log in, maintain his/her profile and add products
• Details: Portal For Merchants
• Projekt in Github
• Slack Channel

Portal for buyers

• A buyer can browse all offerings within a local authority
• Each local authority could be implemented using SalesChannel
• A buyer can see the merchant's profiles and products of merchants
• Details: Portal for Buyers
• Projekt in Github
• Slack Channel

Hosting

• The Hosting of the portal
• Details: Hosting
• Projekt in Github
• Slack Channel

Side-Projects

In addition to the main project, there are additional side projects, which will add more details, comfort and functionality to our solution

App

• App or PWA which will allow merchants to easily make a photo of their products, describe them and upload it to the platform
• Details: App
• Projekt in Github
• Slack Channel

Delivery

• Creative ways of shipping products to the customer
• Details: Local Delivery
• Projekt in Github
• Slack Channel

Service Bookings

• Allow merchants to advertise their services, e.g. webinar
• Details: Service Bookings
• Projekt in Github
• Slack Channel

Voucher Funding

• Allow customers to purchase vouchers and redeem them later at the merchant
• Perhaps connect with donations
• Details: Voucher Funding
• Projekt in Github
• Slack Channel