MSU student developed website as a solution for problem of crowding at shops

Help store owners to maintain crowd data from the app can help administration to track people

The whole country is under lockdown to fight against
Coronavirus. The time is testing everyone as they are going through a phase
which they never experienced before. One such problem is maintaining social
distance which is at present the most effective remedy to contain the deadly
virus.

A student of BBA at The Maharaja Sayajirao Universty fo Baroda,
Yesha Dhiren Shah, has developed a website as a solution for the problem of
crowding and queuing at the shops of essential items. The website is for the
common person or customers and a mobile app for store owners to respond. The
startup has a website – click4q.com which has simple concept
functions.

1. The store owners
who wish to address customers can register on the website with a minimal fee of
Rs.20 for a week and Rs.50 for a month

2. The customers or
housewives can select from the merchants they visit regularly/prefer through
their name or through the unique link of that merchant generated by the
website. 

3. The customer will
submit a list of the items they need to that merchant simply through website click4q.com

4. The customer will
also select a time slot for example: from 7:00 to 7:05 to collect their
orders. 

5. Website generates a
unique token automatically unique which the merchant can use to identify and
give the ordered goods at the given time slot to that costumer.

6. For, the store
owners to manage the orders easily, an app is built, having features for
accepting, cancelling or delaying the order with the option of handling items
not available. 

7. The merchants can
put in the working hours of their shop and change the duration of time slots to
5 minutes, 10 minutes or 15 minutes, they can even set the frequency of
costumers per minute.

With this simple arrangement the store owners need to address
only one consumer at given time slot who will simply ‘collect ‘ goods
physically, pay and leave. This will help to reduce queuing, waiting, crowding
and gathering at stores to a great extent. 

This arrangement prefixes the timing of arrival and departure of
the customer. Also eliminates the time of preparation of goods as the store
owner will keep the goods ready. Moreover, the data from the app can help the
administration to track people coming into the contact of a store owner and
trace the chain of contacts if needed.

Yesha has tried to implement by action, the basic learning of
the first year BBA course which taught her that ‘sustainable businesses always
solve problems’. She aims to bring about a change and contribute positively in
current scenario with this start up as a youngster. 

The website and concept was developed with professional help
from Samay Software who moved their skill and staff swiftly to bring the
concept into the action. The concept is ready and Yesha is now trying to get
store owners and customers to take benefit of this concept.

Yesha was supported by Center for Startup and Innovation, Office
of Career Advancement for Students of The Maharaja Sayajirao University of
Baroda and numerous activities under Students’ Startup and Innovation Policy of
Government of Gujarat.