Shop Chain: An Android Application Simplifying the Shopping Experience in Day-to-Day Life

Abstract

With the surge in the number of people using smartphone devices all over the world, the mobile computing industry has been thriving. There are around 3.6 billion smartphone users worldwide as recorded till 2020 and we expect it to be 4.3 billion by 2023 [1]. In India itself, we have 696 million smartphone users, and it is expected to be 875 million by 2023 [2]. With the increase in the population going online, online shopping has become very convenient. But we still face issues with shopping online at local stores or booking appointments at local hair salons like hunting for a particular item from the store to store only to find it’s unavailable or the shop is closed. Through our application “ShopChain”, we improve the local store shopping by providing them the opportunity/platform to get their stores online so they can update the customers with live updates about their store.