[hawksy]

I ran a grocery ecom marketplace earlier. Getting catalogue up and running from each store used to take pretty long time, POS wont have images but just barcodes and short names.

So we developed this tool called Stockpile. It had 1) Admin app - web 2) Mobile data collection app

Every day the server identifies products that do not have images, and from which store.

The on field data collector goes to the corresponding store. The app will display bar codes and short names.

He goes ahead and scans the bar code and takes image.

Over time we also added intelligence in the office admin app to fuzzy match product names and reduce the effort of offline data collection.

Using this, we could onboard a store and make them online with 12000 SKUs within 4 hours.