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A mobile-first retail intelligence tool that gives floor teams real-time answers in seconds — reducing customer drop-offs and enabling consistent, high-quality service at the point of sale.

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TypeMobile App
IndustryRetail
PlatformiOS & Android
Tech stack
React NativeNode.jsPostgreSQLSSEBarcode Scanning
Key outcomeAnswers in seconds, not minutes
Context & Insight

The problem wasn't the technology. It was the workflow.

Retail teams rely heavily on POS systems for answers. But POS systems are not designed for fast information access during peak hours — they are transaction processors, not information interfaces.

When a customer asks about stock availability, pricing, or product specifications, a salesperson has to break away from the interaction, navigate to a workstation, search through a system built for cashiers, and return with an answer — if they return at all.

The real bottleneck was not technology. It was workflow interruption. Every lookup broke the sales interaction. Every delay increased the chance of a lost sale.

Approach

Designed for how salespeople actually move.

The solution needed to feel instant, lightweight, and unobtrusive. Not another dashboard to log into. Not a system to learn. A tool that gets out of the way and delivers the answer.

We designed a mobile interface that matches how salespeople move on a shop floor: fast, focused, and hands-free where possible. The core interaction is a scan — point the camera at a barcode, get the answer. No typing, no navigation, no friction.

Information is surfaced at the moment it's needed, in the format that is easiest to act on. Stock levels, pricing, and product details are available in under three seconds from the moment a customer asks.

Key Decisions

Why we built it this way.

Every architectural choice was made to serve one constraint: the answer must arrive before the customer loses patience.

React Native

Rapid deployment across multiple regions and devices from a single codebase — critical for a retail environment with a diverse device fleet.

Server-Sent Events (SSE)

Real-time updates without manual refreshes or polling overhead. Floor staff see current stock and pricing the moment it changes.

Barcode scanning

Eliminates manual product search and removes human error from the lookup flow. A scan produces an instant answer.

PostgreSQL backend

Retail-grade transactional resilience. Relational data structure matches the complexity of product catalogues, pricing tiers, and stock levels.

Outcome

Teams answer customers in seconds, not minutes.

The result is a tool that gives retail teams the ability to respond to customer questions in real time — without leaving the conversation, without navigating a POS system, and without the delays that cause customers to walk away.

Reducing that response time reduces drop-offs. Consistent, fast answers enable higher-quality service on the floor — not just for experienced staff, but across the whole team. New staff perform at the level of experienced ones from day one, because the knowledge is always one scan away.

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If you have a workflow problem that a well-built mobile app could solve, we'd like to hear about it.