Web App Development for the Food Industry – Pecan
Pecan is a set of systems for streamlining operations of any food establishment. IT Craft engineers developed envisaged solutions for managing food businesses from scratch and delivered a flexible payment processing system.
- Team 30 members at peak
- Type Point of Sale
- Industry Food and Restaurants
- Platforms Web, Mobile, Cloud
About the project with Pecan
IT Craft helped Pecan build a complete set of systems that enable food service establishments to manage all aspects of their businesses.
The system allows them to process any type of orders, accept and track payments in real time, customize menu items, pass orders to on-demand delivery platforms, connect servers and kitchens, collect data and generate reports, and more.
The client wanted to streamline business operations with the envisaged solutions, ensuring that food services businesses could manage all required activities from one system.
IT Craft’s role lied in delivering an MVP of the envisaged POS system and working on its expansion after the initial launch to keep end users’ engagement high.
Client’s expectations
- Build a POS system that could seamlessly process and track orders of any food service and dining business
- Create complex yet flexible logic for advanced functionality, ensuring that any business could tailor any feature to their specific workflow
- Accept and conveniently track all conventional payment types in real time
- Accurately process numerous overlapping input parameters that can affect the result during the check calculation
- Efficiently handle change management to ensure quick deliveries of system updates and scaling
Services we provide
- Mobile app development
- Cross-platform development
- Web application development
Technologies We Use
Angular
React Native
Java
.NET
MariaDB
Electron
MySQL
Azure
The assigned IT Craft team focused on full-cycle web app development, ensuring that the client system met the needs of different types of food establishments.
The key project contributions included:
- Estimating a high-level timeline for the main milestones
- Providing a detailed breakdown for each milestone composed in a way that ensured MVP delivery within a tight timeframe
- Designing a unique development workflow with active involvement of the establishing tight product owner and cross-functional collaboration that allowed us to incorporate client feedback on a near-daily basis
- Providing an architectural vision of the technical stack for a robust and performance product
- Delivering systems for tracking stocks and inventory levels
- Designing and optimizing databases for order management, inventory, and employee data
- Building a hybrid system that enables data storage and processing locally or in the cloud, depending on the task
- Working with third-party solutions to provide seamless integrations with multiple payment processors
- Ensuring on-the-go order management, making features of the traditional terminal available in a mobile app
- Introducing fast extraction and analysis of financial data that was further used to generate financial reports
Results of the collaboration with Pecan
IT Craft’s on-demand app development services enabled the client to develop a POS MVP that was ready for feature expansion within nine months. High system stability with a low level of bugs and issues reported by users secured a reliable user experience, leading to high user retention rates.
Our team ensured:
- Setting the release date six months ahead and delivering the product on time while constantly incorporating changing requirements
- A robust payment processing system from scratch with low-level API integration and PCI SSF compliance
- An internal Cloud CRM for efficient management of clients, licenses, and updates
- Strong financial reporting features integrated into the POS system to handle various financial tasks
- Doubled projected user growth within the first year as the client secured 1500+ licenses and 100+ mobile users
- Full-fledged system working on 3000+ stations and growing