DeSales

GitHub Repo - https://github.com/hitarthkhurana/DeSales

https://youtu.be/z2E3OThmZOU

🚀 Inspiration 🚀

We envisioned a retail checkout process that gets the Customer's Transactions along with their order data with enhanced security and transparency all in one place thus solving a major problem. We also wanted to incentivize customers to use Blockchain when they make good retail purchases. All of this led to the creation of DeSales. 

💡 What it Does 💡 

DeSales is a B2B Self-Checkout Platform that revolutionizes retail experiences by enabling live item scanning directly into customer carts. Utilizing the NEAR Protocol, customers can complete transactions securely and swiftly. We promote healthy lifestyles by offering discounts on nutritious grocery choices and rewarding customers with exclusive NFTs integrating blockchain rewards into everyday shopping.

  Tech Stack   

Next.js, React

Rust Smart Contracts

NEAR Protocol

MongoDB

Neurelo

🤔 Challenges We Ran Into 🤨

• Integrating barcode and real-time item scanning
• Blockchain transactions showing order details
• Minor Script errors while minting NFTs

🏆 Accomplishments 🏆

• Making a decentralized product ready for large-scale businesses
• Highly Scalable and Customizable Product according to Customer's needs
• Live Item Scanning integrated with transactions on NEAR

📚 What We Learned 📚

• Practical Application of on-chain transactions in a retail environment
• Complexities involved in integrating various technologies like Next.js, React, and MongoDB with the NEAR Protocol
• Importance of User Interface while making an industry-level product

🚀 What's Next? 🚀

Our product has unlimited scope for modifications and scalability according to the user's needs

• Expansion of the product to include more features such as loyalty programs, promotional offers, and more comprehensive user analytics
• Pilot Testing then leads to acquiring mid-sized retailers as customers move on to the big sharks next.