Flora and More Mobile Application

Description
The Flora & More App is the official form of communication with its’ Silvervase members. It aims to provide endless inspiration and tools to help grow any floral businesses. With the app you can browse our product categories, find specific items available, group and organize items you love, browser inspirational arrangements, scan and get specific information on arrangements or products, get access to deals of the week and the in-market experience and so much more.
Challenge
The primary challenge for developing this mobile application was pulling the product data from Flora & More’s data storage facilities. Flora & More’s uses and Inventory Management and Point of Sale system to manage their product and inventory. The technical challenges for us came in the way of limited API documentation and very limited access to the data storage facilities and actual data itself. Our team essentially overcame these challenges by exposing the data through the API in a blind sense. We depended on our experience with similar systems to complete this programming challenge.
Solutions
We took a strategic planning and full cycle development approach and engaged in the following activities:
- Comprehensive business analysis
- Functional and technical analysis of other mobile applications process’s with working models of various feature sets.
- Collaborative specification and requirement authoring
- Story boarding, screen wire framing and prototyping
- Full cycle end to end development mobile application and back end administrative development
- Beta testing with beta test groups
- Deployment and publishing to iTunes Connect and Google Play marketplaces.
- Continued Support and Maintenance
Since the Flora / Silvervase team knows how plant varieties grow, keeps up with the latest techniques for improving freshness and overall quality, and understands the importance of keen attention to detail in untethered creativity, one of FAM’s main goals is to share all that knowledge with their members and designers.
Impact
With the introduction of the new Flora and More mobile app, FAM Customers and Designers can now stay up to speed with all the expertise of the Flora Team. App users, members and designers get instant access to floral products, arrangements, arrangement ingredients, accessories, pricing, great discounts and deals of the week. It a really cool app for those in the floral industry .. useful for everything from researching product, shipping and even a source of inspiration.