Cherp

For owners of a small business who feel “too large” for excel and “too small” for out of the box erp solutions-- we bring you Cherp. The easy to use inventory & order management system that will allow you to focus on your business, and we’ll remember all of the details for you-- large or small.

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Table of Contents

• Technologies Used
• NPM modules Used
• Features
• Project Status
• Room for Improvement

Technologies Used

• Tech 1 - JavaScript
• Tech 2 - Node.js
• Tech 3 - MySQL
• Tech 4 - CSS
• Tech 5 - HTML5
• Tech 6 - Heroku

Node Modules Used:

• mysql2
• sequelize
• connect-session-sequelize
• express
• express-handlebars
• express-session
• express-fileupload
• xlsx
• bcrypt
• dotenv

Features

Ready Features:

1. Allows the user to signup and login with the account created

2. Allows the user to add products
3. Allow the user to delete a product
4. Allow the user to edit the quantity of the product
5. Allows the user to drag or upload an excel sheet that will automatically upload all the products and quantity into the inventory

6. Allows the user to view the current inventory

7. Allows the user to create a new customer

8. Allows the user to view current customers
9. Allows the user to view all the orders of each customer and the due date of them
10. Allows the user to create new orders for customers
11. Allows the user to delete orders

9. Allows the user to generate a report of the current products and quantity and the demand for each product

Project Status

Project is: in progress

Room for Improvement

Room for improvement:

• TBD

To do:

• A report function that tells users when re-orders are necessary.
• The ability to search for all relevant data points from the dashboard.
• The ability to edit order details.
• The ability to intelligently seed user inventory where duplicates exist.
• The ability to seed orders & order details.
• Styling overhaul.