PeerCommerce is a university-based digital commerce ecosystem built using Zoho Creator (Low-Code Platform).
The platform enables students to:
- Offer paid services (skills)
- Sell physical or digital products
- Book peer services
- Purchase products
- Manage wallet-based transactions
- Track financial activity via ledger
- Automate workflows and notifications
- Use AI-based classification and prediction
- Operate through a secure student portal
This application was developed as part of a Low-Code Application Development coursework project.
Universities have multiple student talents and micro-businesses, but there is no structured internal platform to:
- Monetize peer skills
- Track service lifecycle
- Maintain financial transparency
- Manage inventory-based student businesses
- Automate booking and approval processes
PeerCommerce solves this by creating a structured, governed internal campus commerce ecosystem.
- Role-based student profiles (Buyer / Service Provider / Product Seller)
- Wallet balance tracking
- Account approval workflow (Blueprint)
- Portal-based authentication
Students can:
- List services with pricing
- Book peer services
- Track booking lifecycle
- Auto cost calculation
- Wallet validation before booking
- Automated ledger entry
- Email notifications
- Scheduled reminders
Requested → Accepted → In Progress → Completed → Closed
Students can:
- List products
- Manage stock
- Process multi-item orders
- Subform-based order items
- Auto stock deduction
- Auto wallet debit/credit
- Conditional formatting for low stock
- Seller notification for pending orders
Placed → Confirmed → Packed → Delivered → Closed
A centralized Transaction Ledger ensures:
- Full financial traceability
- Automatic wallet update via workflows
- Credit/Debit classification
- Source tracking (Service / Product / Refund)
This guarantees financial governance within the ecosystem.
- Auto fetch provider details
- Cost calculation
- Wallet validation
- Stock verification
- Ledger auto-entry
- Booking reminder 1 day before service
- Seller notification if order pending > 24 hours
- Booking confirmation
- Order delivery confirmation
- Account approval
- Reminder alerts
Blueprint ensures structured lifecycle control:
- Service Booking Blueprint
- Product Order Blueprint
- User Approval Blueprint
This guarantees controlled stage transitions and role-based action restrictions.
AI features implemented:
- Service category prediction based on description
- Product demand prediction based on past sales
AI fields are trained and deployed using Zoho Creator AI models.
Implemented reports:
- Active Services Report
- Earnings by Provider
- Product Sales Report
- Wallet Summary
- Booking Kanban View
- Conditional Formatting (Low stock / Cancelled records)
- Total Users
- Total Revenue
- Active Services
- Top Providers
- Revenue trends
Designed to integrate with Zoho Analytics for advanced BI.
- Secure student login
- Role-based access
- Restricted financial data visibility
- Self-registration with domain restriction (if enabled)
- Permission sets configured per user type
Platform: Zoho Creator
Type: Low-Code Application
Architecture Style: Relational Form-Based with Workflow Automation
- Forms with Lookup Relationships (One-to-Many)
- Subforms (Parent-Child structure)
- Deluge scripting for business logic
- Workflow engine (Form + Scheduled)
- Blueprint engine
- Portal framework
- AI model framework
- Reporting & Dashboard engine
- User Profile
- Transaction Ledger
- Service Listing
- Service Booking
- Product Listing
- Product Order (with Order Items Subform)
- User → Services (1:M)
- User → Bookings (1:M)
- User → Orders (1:M)
- Service → Bookings (1:M)
- Product → Order Items (1:M)
- User → Ledger (1:M)
- Application deployed in Zoho Creator Live Mode.
- Portal enabled for student access.
Portal URL:
https://peercommerce.zohocreatorportal.in/
- Open Portal URL.
- Register using university email.
- Await admin approval (if enabled).
- Login and explore:
- List Service
- Book Service
- Add Product
- Place Order
- View Wallet
This project demonstrates practical understanding of:
- Low-code application development
- Data relationships using lookup fields
- Subform modeling
- Workflow automation
- Conditional validation logic
- Scheduled processes
- Blueprint-based business process modeling
- Financial ledger implementation
- AI model training and usage
- Portal configuration and governance
- Dashboard and reporting systems