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# Brainstorming

Problems            | Business Needs |  Features 
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It is cumbersome for the average employee to create useful reports based on the information of a not standarized spreadsheet. | To get visual and meaningful reports based on the information they have stored. |Build a scalable dashboard where the administration can analyze most of the information they have|
Donators have no way of telling how are things going.|They need to improve costumer experience with their donation platform.|Allow individual donators to manage and see the status of their donation request.
The routes are based on the knowledge of the employee managing the Excel sheet |Administrators need a way to orgnanize the couriers routes based on the deliveries and pickups.|Allow the administration to manage donations pickups and deliveries.
Problems with assigned routes arise often with no immediate way to notify the donators and/or couriers. |A way of notifying the donators about the status of their goods pickups.|Allow couriers to notify departure, arrival, pickup and deposit for each donation.
Donators are not privvy to the status of the recollection other than the initial call and when they meet the couriers | A way to constantly notify donators of what is going on with the recollection process | A dashboard for donators to see the status of their donations.
Sometimes donators exceed the quantity they said they were going to donate and it throws a wrench into the planification of Cáritas | A platform to record these discrepancies and notify them to the donators | Notifications to donators about irregularities in their donation process.
Couriers often don't know where to go so they use Google Maps | A way to receive the route before going on the road |A dashboard to get the status and information about all of their deliveries and pickups.
There isn't a standard way to record quality |A standarized way to record quality of goods| A consistent data repository of information to categorize goods based on measurable qualities.
Donators are not held accountable when they fail to meet the donation they initally offered | A system to notify and flag donators when they breach the donation agreement | Notifications to donators about inconsistencies in the donation amount

## Vision Statement Brainstorm
* Enhance Cáritas ability to help those in need by  streamlining their processes with a reliable and robust donations management system.
* Provide Cáritas with a donations management system that optimizes the process of recollection and delivery of donatives
* Introduce a donations management system that provides better organization between Cáritas, potential donators, and transport

