For anyone running a small to medium business, finding the right manufacturer, contractor, logistics partner, IT partner - the list goes on- has always been difficult. These folks rely on word-of-mouth recommendations, incomplete online resources or cold-calls. It's also extremely difficult to verify the credibility or reliability due to the lack of transparency.
With IdentiFly, customers will be able to post a request and have vendors come to them. They will be able to compare the costs and benefits of choosing a particular partner. This will be the online marketplace for small to medium businesses to identify partners they need, on the fly.
Customer(s) - a company looking for a vendor/supplier to fulfill its needs
Vendor(s) - a company looking for business
Request(s) - a request for tender a Customer makes in relation to a need
Response(s) - a tender by a Vendor in response to a particular request
- Home page with scrollable view of active listings
- User authentication and account management
- Create requests with form validation
- Database filtering
- Contact from vendor to customer
- Users can view all requests in a real time reel from the home page
- Customers can create a new account
- Customers can create a Request through a form
- Customers can can review, edit or delete their older requests from their profile page
- Customers can view responses from potential Vendors
- Vendors can view details of current requests from home page
- Vendors can submit a response to a Customer regarding a particular request
- Database and routes created with Django
- User authentication
- Fully functional CRUD application
- Fluid navigation from Navbar
- Responsiveness
- Django static files
- urlpatterns
- Django packages
- django-post-office
- django-postman
- django-simple-search
- djrill
- requests
- whitenoise
- django-private-chat
- django_tables2 *
- django-crispy-forms *
- djmoney *
- django-bootstrap3 *
- Response form for Vendors to Customers
- Side by side comparison view of Vendor responses
- Database of all Vendors
- Review and rating system for both Vendor and Customer
- Django is very opinionated
- A robust community is important when learning a new technology
- Simple ideas sometimes require complex work arounds
- Change up your pace when coding