POS-Simulator for Retail Stores-SE Project🛒

Overview

POS Simulator is a web application designed to implement a point-of-sale (POS) system for physical retail stores. Offers a range of features to streamline and secure retail operations, including:

• ➡️Secure Authentication: Staff and admin can securely log into the system.
• ➡️Product Management: Search products by barcode, calculate quantities and total prices, and update stock in the backend database.
• ➡️Payment Options: Customers can choose from various payment methods, and a bill is generated accordingly.
• ➡️Admin Features: Admins are alerted if product stock goes below a threshold, can visualise daily sales, per-terminal transactions, and end-of-day stock levels.

Tech Stack-MERN Stack

How to use

• Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/gantasrilaitha/POS-Simulator-SE-Project

• Database creation:

  • For mongodb compass (local db): Create a database named "pos" in mongodb compass and insert some items into the collections whose schema is defined in cd server/models/
  • For mongodb atlas (cloud db):
    Step 1: Create a project in mongodb atlas. ex: point_of_sale_simulator-seproj
    Step 2: Navigate to the project created and create a database under Deployment in left pannel. Create a shared cluster(free sandbox)
    Step 3: Navigate to Network access under Security in left pannel and add the i.p address 0.0.0.0/0 so that it can be accessed by anyone & anywhere
    Step 4: Goto Collections tab in your database & insert the required documents and collections whose schema is defined in cd server/models/
    

• Configurations for deployment: Create a .env file in /pos/server/config directory and store the URI(mongo atlas connection url format)="mongodb+srv://:<user_password>@<XXX.XXXXX.mongodb.net>/<db_name>?retryWrites=true&w=majority&appName=<cluster_name>" and PORT(you can use any port number as per your convenience).

• Frontend (Client):

  cd client
  npm run dev

• Backend (Server):

  cd server
  npm start

• Open, to see the application running locally: http://localhost:5173/

• Open, to see the application running on Vercel, after deployment: POS

Have a look

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Note

All documentations wrt to project are available in the repo. Have a look!

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