Project description:
What? Following the theme of "Uploading the real world to the Internet", our team will build an e-commerce chatbot to "Upload restaurants/shops to the internet", enabling brick-and-mortar small businesses to sell their products online without having to set up any website or webshop.

How? Powered by Facebook Messenger, restaurants/shops will have a chatbot that lives inside their Facebook Page. The bot will present products to visitors, let them add products to their basket, checkout and pay for their orders - all within Facebook Messenger.

Why? We find this case useful for many restaurants affected by the COVID-19 lockdown. In Vietnam, for example, small businesses and consumers are used to interacting with each other via Facebook Page and Messenger instead of websites or webshops. With our solution, we help them leverage their existing Facebook Page and Messenger to give a full e-commerce experience to their customers, complete with checkout and payment. Restaurants also have access to their own dashboard where they can manage their orders and products. With this, we will also help restaurants avoid staff lay-offs by having them deliver food.

Public-access results:
Chatbot: https://m.me/111916790476527
Shop owner's dashboard (use any credentials): http://pioneer-shopbot.tk/

Initial design:
An example case: https://bit.ly/2y4wy6K
An example flow of visitor's interaction with the chatbot: https://bit.ly/3b4NJnh
Shop owner's simple dashboard: https://bit.ly/2y6NsSk

Team members:
Crys Nguyen
Cuong Hoang
Long Tran
Huan Doan

Git repo:
https://github.com/crysttn/pioneer-shopbot