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An Integrated Management Platform for Subscription of Magazines Nada Ahmed1, Dr. Ramananda Mallya K2, Shradha Padukone3, Mashitha H M4, Muhammed Nazim Yoosaf 5 Dept. of Information Science and Engineering, Mangalore Institute of Technology & Engineering, Moodbidri. Associate Professor, Dept. of Information Science and Engineering, Mangalore Institute of Technology & Engineering, Moodbidri. ---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------new subscription, update their contact or address Abstract - In today’s age of modern technology, one of the 1,3,4,5
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information or to make payments. All the manual difficulties in managing the records by the vendors can be rectified by implementing this system.
commonly seen age-old practices both in rural and urban areas alike is the use of registers to keep track of newspaper, and magazine subscribers and manual calculation of their fare each month. This results in more time consumption for doing basic tasks such as adding the details of a new subscriber, updating, and managing the details of the hundreds and thousands of already existing subscribers, and calculating the individual fares for their respective subscription. There is no proper database used to store and maintain the information. To solve this issue, we have come up with a system to implement an integrated platform for efficient subscription management system.
For the vendor, the system aims to provide a systematic approach to add and store the details of new subscribers and their subscriptions and other details such as contact and address information, to view the information and details of already existing subscribers and their subscriptions and to view the list of newspapers and magazines and their respective number of copies. For the customers, we aim to provide them with a platform that can be used to take a new subscription for newspapers and magazines, to update their already existing subscription and to be able to make use of various modes of payment to pay the monthly or yearly fare for their subscription.
Key Words: Mobile Application Development, Subscription Management, Security, Android
1. INTRODUCTION
2. BACKGROUND
Newspapers are rich source of information. Lots of people rely on newspapers for learning current affairs and world happenings. Newspaper reading as a habit is very good for everyone. Many people still read newspapers despite the popularity of news apps.
The main goal is develop a system that helps with time management and helps with easier management of hundreds and thousands of data with respect to subscribers and their respective subscription as well as details regarding newspapers and magazines.
Research shows that people still prefer making decisions based on the information they find on printed newspaper. Now there is a trend to reduce screen time, which is possible when people read printed newspapers and magazines instead of relying on digital platforms for reading newspapers [1]. So, to encourage people to do the same, our approach is to make the subscription process easy and flexible by creating an application [2].
A survey was conducted on the newspaper vendors highlighting the pain points of their sorting process and working [3]. It describes the evaluation of the same and proposes a tangible solution for increasing their efficiency. This is an industry serving a revenue of 290.4 billion rupees and 100,000 registered newspapers and periodicals (as of 2015) that is predicted to only grow with civilization. User surveys were carried out along with a questionnaire to understand the working methodology. Insights suggested that the vendors maintained manual records while arranging bunches of newspapers leading to errors and delays in an industry that functions on time and speed. Each vendor had approximately 600–700 papers to sort every morning. To considerately reduce the temporal demand in these situations, a design intervention was proposed for the newspaper distributors and vendors using the trending technology of this time - wearable’s. These currently manual tasks can be made faster if digital assistance is provided. The presented solution can be further used for occupations
We have come up with a system to implement an efficient subscription management system. Subscription management is nothing but a systematic way of storing and managing the details of the newspaper/magazine subscribers, their subscriptions, and other details such as contact and address information making it easier for the vendors to retrieve the information when needed. All this information will be stored in a common database. Along with this, the vendor can also store details about the newspapers and magazines that they deliver. The subscribers can access this system and can use it to add a
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