Our web application “Pocket Shelves” ensures small business owners save money by simplifying inventory management for our users. According to Small Business Trends, it’s estimated that businesses around the country lose over 300 billion dollars annually due to poor inventory management [1]. Pocket Shelves allows users to document and edit inventory live, as well as track and organize inventory physically with barcodes. Pocket Shelves also features analytics to help the user better manage their inventory financially. Pocket Shelves allows the user to share their information among an established group with easy to use permissions to restrict use. The user-interface of our application was built to work on any browser with the Bootstrap framework. The backbone of Pocket Shelves was written in Python 3, built with the Flask micro-framework, and primarily using PostgreSQL. Proper inventory management has never been easier, thanks to easy to use applications like Pocket Shelves.
