Category

Sample Picture

Romantic

Birthday

Grand Opening

Condolence

Anniversary

After several rounds of discussion, Beautiful Blooms would like to have the following essential features to be included:

· Inventory management that includes setting up products, adding and removing products and pricing updates.

· Sales management that allows consistent order taking, taking delivery details, update of order status etc.

· Further features to be integrated in the application are the ability to filter products by category and sorting by price.

Based on you understanding, the application should display the below main menu to allow Beautiful Blooms to repeatedly perform the 2 key features.

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1. Inventory management

2. Sales management

0. Exit

Enter option:

Before presenting the main menu, your application needs to load the existing from “Products.txt” (Appendix A) into a collection*.

* you can decide to implement using either Dictionary or List.

Details of the 2 key features are presented below:

1. Inventory management

This feature allows the user to perform the following: (through a sub-menu)

a. View /Update blooms

b. Add new blooms

c. View / Update add-ons

d. Add new add-on

e. Back to main menu

a. This feature will list product details, as shown in Appendix A. At the end of the list, the program will display a prompt:
To update an item, enter the item code. Or enter 0 to go back to previous menu.
If there is no item with item code, display appropriate error message and return to sub-menu.
Program will display the item name, price, and status, if the item code exists.

User can enter the new price and/or new status to proceed with the update.
Any updates should also be effected into “Products.txt”

b. To setup a new item, these data elements should be collected:

· Name of item

· Item code: this has to be unique. Can be manually entered or automatically generated

· Price.

· Category: There are 5 fixed categories – Romantic, Birthday, Grand Opening, Condolence, Anniversary

The new item is created, added into the collection, with status “Available”. The “Products.txt” file is also updated with this new item.

c. This feature will list all the available add-ons, as shown in Appendix B. At the end of the list, the program will display a prompt:
To update an item, enter the item code. Or enter 0 to go back to previous menu.
If there is no item with item code, display appropriate error message and return to sub-menu.
Program will display the item name, price, and status, if the item code exists.
User can enter the new price and/or new status to proceed with the update.
Any updates should also be effected into “Addons.txt”

d. To setup a new add-on, the following information must be added:

· Name of the item

· Item code. This must be unique. It can be manually entered or auto generated.

· Price

The new addon is created,added to the collection, with the status ‘Available’. The ‘Addons.txt’ file is also updated with this new item.

2. Sales management

This feature allows to take orders, view orders and update orders according to their process. These options should be presented in the sub-menu)

a. Create order

b. View order

c. Back to main menu

a. When creating an order, the list of products is first displayed. At the end of the list, 3 options are displayed:

1) Filter products by category

2) Sort products by price

3) Order item

If “1” is entered, then these options will be displayed:
1) Romantic
2) Birthday
3) Grand Opening
4) Condolence
5) Anniversary

0) Go back
Select filter category

User can select the category by entering the appropriate number. For example, if the user enters “2”, then only products in the “Birthday” category will be displayed. At the end of the list, these options will be displayed:

1) Order item
2) Back to filter category
3) Back to main menu

If user enters “1”, the user will proceed to the Order item section (see below)

If “2) Sort products by price” option is chosen”, then the products will be listed in ascending order of price. At the end of the list, these options will be displayed:

1) Order item
2) Back to main menu

Order item section
When user chooses “Order item”, a prompt will be shown:
Please enter item code:

System should validate item code and only allow available items to be selected.
Next, the system will display the list of add-ons, e.g:
Available add-ons:
A001      Chocolates                                   $8
A002      Customized Handwritten card     $12
A003      Soft Toy                                       $16
Enter item code for addon, or 0 to skip.

Next, the system will prompt the user to enter:
- customer name

- recipient’s name

- message for recipient (limited to 300 characters)

- Store pickup or Delivery? ($35 for delivery)
(if delivery is selected, the below information will be required)

- delivery address

- delivery date

- same day delivery? (Additional charge of $35 applies).

The system will be display a summary as shown below:
----------     Order Summary       ---------
Item:        Angel Eyes     R001         $85
Addon:    Chocolates     ADD001         $8

Delivery date:  28 Aug 2023

Same day delivery:  No                   $0
Delivery charges:                             $35

Total                                                  $128

Customer’s name: travis Lin
Recipient’s name: Linda Foo
Message for recipient:
I love you XOXO
Delivery address: 123 ABC St, America 12345
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Enter 1 to confirm, 2 to edit info, 0 to cancel :

If “1” is entered, an Order ID is generated. Order ID will follow this format: BBO-23-XXXX, where XXXX is a running number starting from 0001. The order is saved with the status “Open”. If “2” is entered, the user will be prompted to enter all information starting from customer name, then shown the summary again. If 3 is entered, nothing is saved.

b. When view order option is selected, the list of orders will be displayed.
- Only orders with “Open” is shown by default.
- At the end of the list, the following options are shown:
1) Edit/Cancel order
2) Filter order by status
3) Back to main menu
If “1” is selected, the user will be prompted to enter the order number. If order number exists, options will appear depending on its current status:

If “2” is selected, the user can choose the option to filter (see the different status above), and only Orders with that status will be shown.

Below are suggestions for BONUS features for consideration. You do not have to incorporate all of them and you may include your own additional features.

a. Using Python Date library
- Set delivery fee to increase by $10 if delivery falls on Sat or Sun.
- Change order status to “Deliver today” if order delivery is currently today and not Ready yet.

b. Use OOP

- Use Objects to manage Products and Orders

c. Product popularity rating
- Add option to add a rating for products e.g 4.5/5 by 8 users
- Option to sort items by rating