Training Kit

Training Kit

Introduction

iVend Extensibility Training Kit is a comprehensive 5-day training program targeted for developers looking to incorporate additional business logic, screens etc. in iVend Retail. 


iVend Retail 6.5 Extensibility Training Kit

The Training Kit has been specially designed to focus on extensibility through the use of add-on applications, receipt customization, and web APIs.


Attendees will gain practical hands-on experience to develop after completion of hands-on labs.

  • Describe the features, benefits, components of add-on development

  • Use the add-on development framework to customize the application to suite business processes

  • Design, develop, and run custom add-ons

  • Use iVend Retail Web APIs to integrate with third party software

  • Use the Report Designer to generate custom reports as per business needs

  • Create, package, and apply version control to the Add-On application


Training Curriculum

The 5 day training curriculum is as under:

 

Day 1 – Add-On Application Development

iVend Retail Add-on framework is used for extending GUI, writing Custom Business Logic and enhancing application functionality. The extended business logic is deployed as an add-on application centrally at the Enterprise (HO) which then gets automatically replicated to the entire Retail Landscape. Click HERE to access the Day 1 Training Content


Day 2 – Integration using iVend Web API

iVend Retail application provides a rich bundle of API functions that can be leveraged to integrate with any standard ERP without the hassle of platform dependency. This API is a collection of methods in WCF Service for updates, retrieving and manipulating data in the iVend Retail. iVend Retail Web API has discoverable endpoints and conforms to the industry standard WS*1.1 protocol thereby guaranteeing interoperability across all platforms that understand the SOAP payload. Click HERE to access the Day 2 Training Content


Day 3 – Dashboard and Report Designer

iVend Retail Dashboard items can be used to visualize data on the dashboard in various ways and apply filters to analyze data at different detail levels iVend Report Designer is a user friendly tool that speeds up the report creation with the help of wizards and editors. It allows creation of the report templates where the whole report can be visually separated into multiple pages and rendered reports can be saved into more than 30 different file formats. Click HERE to access the Day 3 Training Content


Day 4 – iVend Database and Payment Processor

iVend Database gives the complete overview of iVend Retail database structure. It includes table scheme information with constraints implemented. Users would be able to get some useful information like offline POS configuration table structure and the stored procedures utilized in iVend to process data. iVend allows third party payment processor integration. After this training user would be able to implement and deploy a third party payment processor through custom programming. Click HERE to access the Day 4 Training Content


Day 5 – Business Case Based Workshop

Business case based workshop exercises cover a few sample business cases that are being catered as a solution on top of iVend Retail via the Extensibility framework. These workshops have been designed in an instruction based format to give clear ideas to the programmer, about application and strength of iVend Extensibility. Click HERE to access the Day 5 Training Content



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