Overview About Itfox

Working in the IT outsourcing format on several projects simultaneously, the company ItFox faced difficulties in planning and distributing the workload of employees, which negatively affected the profitability of the projects. Realizing the importance of effective time management, ItFox decided to develop its own employee workload management system. The search for ready-made solutions on the market was unsuccessful - the existing systems were either too complex or did not correspond to the company's business processes. The first step was a detailed analysis of all internal processes. Based on the collected information, a prototype was created, which formed the basis of the developed software. A team including a manager, developers, and testers was formed to implement the project. The manager set the tasks, the developers took them up, and the testers were involved at the testing stage. This approach allowed the project to be completed within the planned 1-month period and to obtain a working version of the system. The functionality of the developed ItFox Gant system includes: - Employee work schedule with visualization of workload by sprints (5 working days) with color indication (green - full, red - overload, gray/yellow - partial); - Workload chart showing the overall and project involvement of each team member for prompt response to uneven workload; - Monitoring system for invoice dates and payment statuses for effective accounts receivable management. Result: After the implementation of ItFox Gant, the company got rid of the problems of downtime and overload of personnel. The management received a complete picture of the workload of employees both at the current moment and for several months ahead, which allows them to respond promptly to changes and prevent "surprises" in the form of downtime of teams.

We have been working with our client – the largest restaurant holding company “London Restaurant Group” for more than 3 years. You can read the story of how we created applications for them in the previous our blog article, but right now we will tell you about Restotchet – this program was written specifically for “LRG” to close the need to improve the quality of cost and income accounting in the restaurant business. In managing a restaurant, it is important to keep proper cash flow records. Sometimes this becomes a big problem, because in addition to common income and expenses, it is necessary to account for spending on food production, calculate employee salaries and more. Restaurant managers are constantly faced with the dilemma of how to keep track of expenses and income from different sources. The difficulty is that there may be several restaurants and each has its own characteristics, while the manager is alone and it is important for him to see all the expenses and understand the overall picture for all locations. If you do accounting in excel, the discrepancies in the format of reports from different restaurants are inevitable. Sometimes even the form of the report in one and the same restaurant can be different. So we had the task: To consolidate all expenses and revenues in one program and make it easy to view the final report so that managers can analyze the big picture. The development of the web application can be divided into the following stages:  1 Writing a prototype. First we wrote a test version on the 1C platform and uploaded all kinds of expenses and income there.  2 Testing. At this stage we studied the mechanism we had written, tested it in action and detected flaws. During this time we have stepped on a lot of rake holes, spent weeks on the harmonization of reports, and also significantly simplified the interface and removed all the redundant and improved the UI.  3 Integration. Here we adjusted the joint work of the program with other systems, such as:  R-keeper and iiko – they transmit information about the daily sales with details.  StoreHouse and 1C-catering – they transmit information about the cost of food, low-value and fast-moving items  1C-accounting – transmits information about cashless payments, depreciation of fixed assets, etc.  Client-Bank – allows to load cashless payments directly to Restaurantaccount.  4 Choice of platform. In our work we used microservice architecture for integrations, Python server language and Django admin, FastAPI, React on front end. In the end we chose the technology we used to write the final version.  At the end we had a universal Restoreport, which:  -Gives the restaurateur or business owner the ability to quickly and easily monitor key financial indicators.  -Allows the management personnel to delegate tasks  –Connects all employees-accountants, managers, storekeepers, financiers-into a single system  Implementation: Project implementation involved: project manager, designer, 2 frontend developers, 2 backend developers, tester, team leader.  The following functions were implemented in the process of work:  -Role manager who sees planned and current spending with advances and actual expenses  -Accountant’s role, who sees the balance sheet, may see the journal of transactions  -Role of the owner, who sees all transactions and can make various types of reports.  Results  The usefulness of Restoretchet for the restaurant business is obvious.  Thanks to the implementation of this software, the customer was able to:  -Fastly delegate restaurant management to any employee  -Quickly get reports on the restaurant from any device  -See unified reports with the possibility of detailed analysis  User friendliness  -The new software complex uses modern technology  -Easyly accessible from any browser  -Integrates with main information systems of restaurant business.  If you have any questions or would like to create a similar project, just leave a request and we will call you back!

A mobile app for IOS and Android, helping one book tours and transfers while visiting countries all over the world. Goal: Our client needed a mobile app, which would allow tourists to receive all the information about tours in the country of their visit, book tours and transfers via the app. Realization: Our team included a project manager, a designer, backend and frontend developers, and a QA. During the process of the work our team managed to implement the following functions: choice of location tour catalog tour information tour booking transfer booking informational blocks (privacy policy, terms of use, etc.) Some extraordinary features: filters, based on the number of people, tour duration, and its type (walking, auto, etc.) opportunity to book a tour for a certain date transfer booking, based on different tariff plans (standard, comfort, business, etc.) Results: The app is a part of a major project, which aims to entail tourist agencies, catering services, and other entertainment enterprises. During the testing phase, our project has received positive feedback, being improved on the go.

Project: Developing a mobile app for IOS and Android platforms; Task: The task was to develop a mobile app for online astrological forecasts; Implementation: The implementation of the project was complicated by the need to obtain correct data on the location of various planets. Most similar services give incorrect results under certain boundary conditions. We made a decision to deploy our own server for calculating the position of the planets, where we could configure the conditions according to the customer’s wishes; Technologies: TypeScript, Express, Postgress, ReactNative.

Project: Developing a mobile app for IOS and Android platforms Task: It was necessary to develop a mobile app for a chain of restaurants and bars; Implementation: The app must allow bar and restaurant users to participate in the loyalty program as specified by the customer. For this purpose, the user can show the QR code of the app to the serving waiter to get additional privileges. A special feature of the app is that, depending on the account, the user sees either the client interface or the interface intended for maintenance personnel. Results: Mobile app for IOS and Android platforms; Web server for data storage; Technologies: TypeScript, Express, Postgress, ReactNative.