Barter and Flip

We are Tech Inc, and we are creating a phone/computer app called Barter and Flip. The purpose of the app is to create business to business relationships through the local area to find discounted inventory or to sell overstock inventory. We are different from other apps because we are focused on business to business transactions and help build relationships between each other. Our biggest competition will be craigslist but what sets us apart is we will focus on business to business where craigslist focuses more on consumer to consumer or business to consumer. We made a rating system for everyone to use so you can rate how the transaction went and see what people think about them so they know if they can be trusted or not in everyone's profile Our app will be able to make a profit by selling analytics to manufacturers. We will also have a tier system within the app. Our biggest goal is to bring the business community together and to help each other when they don’t know what to do with overstock inventory and for them to help get rid of it while getting money back but selling it or trading it for a good deal. We are still in the beginning stages of everything but if we end up doing good with local businesses we will eventually want to branch out and bring in bigger businesses and corporations.

This is our homepage here you can see all the options you can click on and look at.

You can access:

• marketplace
• about us
• buying and selling inventory tabs.

When you click on the market place tab this is where you can the view buying inventory, selling inventory, and sign up tab. The buying tab is where you can find stuff, so you buy or trade whatever the other businesses posted. The selling inventory is your profile and show what you overstock inventory you are trying to sell or trade. The sign-up tab is where you can sign-up, so you are able to post and look at what everyone overstock inventory.

On this page you, this is where you set up your account so you are allowed to post and view other people post of overstock inventory.

The information that is needed to sign-up are:

• Business Name
• UBI Number
• Business address
• Business Email
• Contact Information

On this page you can view what other businesses are trying to get rid of. Here you can see the picture of the inventory and see the details of it as well. It will show the inventory name, the quality of the product, the quantity of it, and the business name and business contact information of the stock.

The selling inventory page is pretty much your profile. Here you can look at your profile and see the status on the inventory you have posted and manage whatever you want from here. Here is also where you can also see the ratings you have received from a sell or trade you have done. It will show what you have bought in previous transactions, which shows the date of transaction, Business bartered with, inventory received, inventory sold as well as a picture of the product.

On the About Us tab you can check more about me and my group and what our particular skills are.

• Sydney Erdman is a Systems Analytics major
• Isaac Nokes is a Finance and Accounting major
• Enrique Juarez is a Business Management and Business Management Information Major.

This was a very different type of project that had me use skills I never really used before but was a great learning experience overall. Just like any project we ran into some issues. My skills are in Business Management and Business Management Information System, so designing an app isn't really my specialty. My other teammates were also not very knowledgeable in this for their specialties are in accounting and data analytics, so we had to bring our heads together to see how we want to design to be. Luckily, we had to work with another class that had to do coding to help us out. So, this helped us solve the problem of how we are even going to make the app. We learned a lot from this person because they were the ones who knew how to code it and we just had to tell what we want and ended up going over it with us as we help make it and learned some coding as well. I ended up learning even more about coding and designing an app at the same time. I had some coworkers and friends look at our design to see what they thought about and got some insight about it which helped us a lot to make it even better. At the end If I were to give someone advice about making their own business and app, I would probably say take your time with designing it and make sure you know how to get people interested it and how you are going to promote it. I would also do what we did and see what other potential or future users think about it to see what they like and what they don’t like so you can make the appropriate changes. We are still in the beginning stages and have some more work to do and testing as well, and hopefully make this app grow in the future.

Thanks for reading!