Mobile App for Purchase in Vending Machines

The work is devoted to a mobile application for purchase in vending machines, as well as simplifying the purchase algorithm for the user. The work was developed within the framework of the treaty with company, which owns the net of vending machines. In work the basic principles of the vending machine operation, the structure of the purchase algorithm in these automata, the ways of its modification and improvement were considered. Also in the work are considered the architectural principles of building mobile applications and ways to organise the interaction of the mobile client with the server As a result, an application was obtained that allows users to make purchases in the existing network of vending machines using their smartphone to select products and pay for the purchase. Creating an application for purchase in vending machines greatly simplifies the buying process. This allows you to use bank cards for payment and buy more than one product in one purchase cycle. Facilitating the purchase also stimulates buyers to make more purchases and purchase more goods, which increases the profits of machines. The work contains 36 pages, 3 chapters, 13 figures, 3 table, 9 sources, 4 applications. Keywords: Vending, Mobile application, Apple Pay, QR-code, iOS-development,