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Apple iPhone QuickOrder proof of concept for Starbucks, genius

Link: QuickOrder – GENOCO by Phil Lu

“Get your coffee fix, fast!” iPhone/iPod Touch application that allows the users to purchase their favorite Starbucks drink without waiting in line. This application also includes QuickPay, a swipe transaction system using semacode technology.

I picked this up via MacRumours. A smart chappy by the name of Phil Lu knocked up these screenshots illustrating how an iPhone/iTouch ‘QuickOrder’ application could work. It’s unfortunately proof-of-concept at the moment but I could really see myself using something like this. Nice work Phil!

Take a look…

First, you login at the shop front…

interactive_quickOrder_t

Then you select your desired coffee…

interactive_quickOrder_1

Then do a bit of customising…

interactive_quickOrder_2

Then you pay…

interactive_quickOrder_3

Complete with semacodes! I wonder what Noah and the team at Gomobo.com make of this — they’re basically doing this (albeit without the fancy iPhone graphics) across a lot of America already.

You know what? I just did a search on Gomobo and found that ‘Del Taco’ here in San Francisco are Gomobo-enabled. They are literally round the corner. Well I never. I’ll need to try it out.

6 COMMENTS

  1. I agree the iPhone example is nice, but it just amazes me that there isn’t more of this going on already – it seems so obvious somehow! Does anyone know if the barcode readers on standard tills can handle this as a payment method, or do they need another reader adding?

  2. We’ve had the capability to do this for over a year on other phones – in addition we can tie in GPS for location/directions and Starbucks loyalty card information. Finally instead of generating a 2D barcode which requires new infrastructure we can generate a 1d barcode in real which can be read by all the current readers.

    Cheers,

    Peter

  3. I discovered your homepage by coincidence.
    Very interesting posts and well written. Thx for sharing it, keep up the good work..

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