The Christian bookstore is a company that is dedicated to helping those in need. Their store fronts sell many items such as Christian reading materials, music, movies, jewelry, and even home décor. What few people know is that the Christian bookstore donates 100% of all its proceeds to charitable organizations in hopes of making a difference in the world. As a customer, wouldn’t it be nice to know where your money went and who it helped? We are introducing a new app that allows customers to track their purchase amount around the world similar to the way you track a UPS package. Customers will be able to see where their money went, what it bought, and who it helped allowing them to feel a more personal connection …show more content…
A website will need to be created in order for people without mobile access to use the app. GPS capabilities will need to be accessed to show customers exactly where in the world their funds are being used. Systems, such as cloud-computing, will be utilized for data storage pertaining to tracking numbers and customer purchases. A communication technology would have to be developed similar to Facebook but on a much smaller scale. It be very simple and could only be seen by the customer and the companies. This would allow frequent updates from the Christian bookstore informing which charity received their funds, from the charity informing the customer what their funds were used for, and who received what the charity purchased. Since all these types of technologies exist, this project is technologically …show more content…
Reasons include keeping track of your dollars spent at the bookstore and creating a relationship between the customer and families across the world. With this application we have designed, it is important to have a smooth transition from our developers, to the users of the application. We understand the importance of the implementation of this software so that we can successfully achieve our goals that we have in place with this application.
Implementation for this application starts with the development team who designs this application, and then later is handed to the users of this tool. We look to make this handoff as if it were invisible. We will use a marketing approach to achieve this strategy. We understand that the implementation will need two teams, the development team and the users. Each one has to move in the same direction as the other. During the prototype stage, users will work hand and hand with the developers to get daily feedback and help with the overall design of the