Kirana friends

Assisting Kiranas (small grocery shops in India) in their growth journey through digital tools

Sector

Retail & FMCG

Technologies

Flutter,Angular,Java,Spring Boot

Database

MongoDB

Cloud Server

AWS S3,AWS Lambda

Client

Kirana Friends(www.kiranafriends.com)

Specific Requirements

  1. System should be scalable with zero down time and with low latency
  2. App should work smoothly in low internet network and low configuration devices

Business Features

We built a mobile app to bring 12 million Kirana owners into a modern, technologically enabled, customer-friendly environment.

Key feature included:
  • User Registration capturing there interests as well
  • Reels, Article and Courses for the users and ability to bookmark them
  • Rating the Articles, Courses
  • Ability to add Daily sales
  • Sale & Stock Budget Calculator
  • Global Search
  • Live Webinar With Recording & Live Chat
  • Group , One on One Chat, Send , Accept /Reject Connection Request.
  • Vendor Information
  • Compliance – Kirana related Certifications
  • Survey forms to get feedback from the Kirana Owners
  • Quiz & Rewards

Technical Solution

  • Setting up auto scalable architecture to scale to large number of users
  • Securing the system using AWS security features
  • Automated daily backup of both database and server instance
  • Integrated Agora for Webinar solution
  • Realtime Live Chat using Firebase
  • Analytics using Firebase and CleverTap
  • WhatsApp integration for regular updates, notifications for Kiranas Store owners
  • Deep Linking to track and allow user to access the functionality easily