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Store (business)

Store (business)

Jul 24, 2017

A store is a place which might be able to give away items in bulk (they won't just be giving 1 banana away). It might be any kind of business, usually a shop, a supermarket or factory. Usually they offer what they cannot sell anymore (e.g., food, cloth, flowers, wood, electronics, pallets etc.) or what they do not need anymore (e.g., office equipment, furnitures etc.). Normally, a certain kind of community (e.g., foodsharing) saves the resources and shares them further.

These are the main source of things, food and stuff which will become commons in the yunity community, and this is where much of the management and administration is needed; making sure any relevant agreements are in place, ensuring people will collect stuff promptly and satisfying the store.

Any user can create a store (whether part of the business or not). Every store has a status, one of: Open for cooperation, No contact yet, In negotiation, Cooperating, Is cooperating with somebody else, Does not want to cooperate right now. This helps so that not many people or communities approach the store, in order not annoy them.

Every store has at least one user who is responsible for it. If a store belongs to a chain, the store responsibles are connected in a parent store where communication concerning all stores from the chain is taking place.

The store modules allows for team communication as well as the organisation of pickups.

Mockups

Mobil Mockups

 

 


Desktop

Stage 1 - Rotterdam Development Goals

Feature Set: Create a store

S.1 As a user I want to create a store with a name so that I can identify it. (trello card)
- Name of store has max. 30 characters
- Button: Create Store
S.2 As a store coordinator I want to have a list of all my stores so that I have an overview about my stores (trello card)
- list of stores from the user with the name of each store

Feature Set: Wall

S.3 As a store coordinator I want to have a wall on my Store page so that I can write text posts. (trello card)
S.4 As a store coordinator I want to comment on a post on the wall of my store. (trello card)

Stage 2 - MVP

Feature Set: Team Store coordinator 

As a user who creates a store I want to become automatically part of the team store coordinator of the store I created.

Feature Set: Address and location

Address field with smart search (compulsory at least street name, city, country) (required)
Below the Address field there is a map who is at the beginning focused to the closest definable region
 

Feature Set: Category of Store

Categories of store/business to chose in tick box (required)

 

Feature Set: Status of Store

 

  • Open for cooperation

  • No contact yet

  • In negotiation field with date to define: “since day/month/year”

  • Cooperating field with date to define: “since day/month/year”

  • Is cooperating with somebody else

  • Does not want to cooperate right now

Field: “Description of the current status” (required) (goes into a timeline of status changes of the store - visible for store coordintors
Field only appears if status is "Cooperating" : "Describe the normal pick-up procedure and what everyone needs to know who is part of the store/business (max. 500 characters)"

Feature Set: Create a store with better functionality

Name of store/business (required) text box of max. 30 characters with smart search for existing stores in the same country with the same name e.g. Bio = suggestions “Bio Company”, “Bio Insel"
When creating a new store: If user is in one or more communities they have the section "Does this store/business will belong to one of your communities?"
List of communities in a drop-down, the one the user is the most active first, if community is related to a special resources, like e.g. foodsharing, than this the main category already selected, only sub categories to choose

Feature Set: basic Store functions

Notification on the wall if a new member is accepted or left the store team

Feature Set: Store Management Pick-Ups

Store Coordinators can create Pick-up times (7 week days, with one or several time (slots) per day e.g. 4am or 3-6pm)
Store Coordinators can set an unique pick-up date
Store Coordinators can see history of Pick-Ups
Store Coordinators can decide if they want new members only be able to chose a pickup date with an experienced store member
Store Coordinators can a notification mail if no one has signed up to pick up (Text: Dear #name of user# you are store Coordinator for #store name and link# Apparently no one has signed. Please make sure that someone from your team or yourself takes care of the pick-up. Love yours yunity Team)
Store Coordinators can set the average pick up time how long a pick up takes: 1min, 3min, 5-10min, 10-20min. 30-60min
Store Coordinators can delete pick-up dates manually
Store Coordinators can set the max. amount of pick-uppers per day with a warning if more than 3 are selected that: „we recommend you to ask the store for the maximum of pick-uppers per pick-up


Feature Set: Advanced Store functions

Message all Team members in a kind of channel like slack
Store Coordinators can chose if the store is suitable for introduction pick-ups
Store Coordinators can Change/Add/Delete Team members
Set color frame of users according to their status in a store
 
 


 

 

Stage 3 - Distant Goals

 

"Settings" will lead to the setting page of store/business
Store/business belongs to community:
List of communities in a dropdown where user belongs to with the most active ones first
When user does not belong to any community, a text instead: “Start your own community where you can bundle stores, groups, pages and manage your members” with a big button “Create a Community
Show the experience of a member of the store in different colors: grey = beginner (first 3 pick ups), brown = normal, blue = expert
Member can chose their status (inactive, jumper, active, power saver) automatically set members to inactive when they have not pick-up in the last 4 weeks and notify user and store Coordinators 
If store does not belong to a community there is displayed:
Do you want communities to request your store to join their community (yes= standard)
 The store/business page has several introductory mini pop ups after store has been created, who explain what can be done:


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