Butchers Management System

Overview

This system centralises the operations of an organisation that runs several butcher shops. It covers branches, employees, salaries and bonuses, meat categories, products, sales, expenses and reporting.

Everything is managed from a Laravel admin panel with AJAX-powered screens and role-based access for every administrator.

The challenge

With several branches, it is hard to see what each shop sells, spends and pays its staff. The organisation needed sales, expenses and payroll in one system, with reports per branch and for the whole business.

My role

I designed and built the system: its modules, permissions, reporting engine and admin interface.

Technical challenges

• Branch-level visibility. Sales, expenses and employees belong to branches, and reports work per branch or across all of them.
• Payroll in the system. Monthly salaries and bonuses are calculated and tracked per employee, with full history.
• Reliable reports. Reports combine sales, expenses, salaries and bonuses and export to PDF and Excel.
• Secure multi-admin access. Several administrators work at once, each with their own role and permissions.

Outcomes

The organisation manages all branches from one place, with sales, expenses, salaries and bonuses tracked together and reports available per branch or for the whole business.

Lessons learned

• Attach everything to a branch from day one; it makes every report easier.
• Payroll features need history, not just current values.
• A consistent admin pattern lets new modules ship quickly.