Build an Order Management App in Under 5 Minutes

See How Aire AI App-Builder Builds an Order Management App in Under 5 Minutes 

Building custom business applications can often take days or even weeks. But with the Aire AI app-builder, you can significantly reduce that time. In this article, we’ll walk through the process of creating an Order Management app for a manufacturing company in under five minutes, using Aire’s intuitive tools.

Step 1: Setting Up the Prompt

The first step in the Aire AI process is using the Aire prompt-builder. This feature allows you to create a clear and concise prompt for the AI to understand your business needs. You have several input fields to choose from, but for this demo, we’ll keep it simple by entering only two key details:

• Type of Business: Manufacturing Company
• Type of Activity: Orders

You could refine the prompt further using optional fields, but we’ll let Aire take the reins from here.

Step 2: Selecting Modules

Next, we add the essential modules for our app. Aire gives you control over the scope and complexity of your data model. For this example, we select a medium scope, which generates a comprehensive set of modules tailored to the app’s needs.

The generated modules for our Order Management app include:

• Order Item
• Shipping Info
• Billing Info
• Supplier Detail
• Product Inventory
• Product Pricing

These modules cover most of the essential data points for managing orders in a manufacturing company. You can always adjust these by adding or removing modules as needed.

Step 3: Adding Fields

Once the modules are set, it’s time to populate them with fields. Again, you can control the complexity, so we choose a large scope to give Aire plenty of flexibility in creating fields for each module.

For example, in the Order Item module, Aire generates fields like:

• Quantity
• Unit Price
• Total Price
• Discount
• Production Status

Each field comes with a predefined field type, such as text, number, dropdown, or date/time, all configured automatically. If necessary, you can edit, delete, or add your own fields, but for now, we’re happy with Aire’s selections.

Step 4: Creating Relationships

After defining the modules and fields, Aire builds relationships between them. These relationships are crucial because they allow the app to connect related data, such as linking an order item to its billing information or product inventory. This process only takes about a minute and a half, but it’s incredibly important for ensuring the app functions as intended.

Aire will also explain the logic behind each relationship it creates, giving you clarity on how the data model fits together.

Step 5: Generating UI Pages

Now that the data model is complete, it’s time to build the user interface (UI). Aire can automatically generate the following UI pages:

• Home Page with metrics, charts, and record lists
• Dashboard Page with key visualizations
• Record List Pages for each module
• Record Pages for each module

Creating these pages manually could take a day or two, but Aire does it all in about 15 seconds. These pages give the app a fully functional front end, allowing users to interact with the data seamlessly.

Step 6: Previewing and Deploying the App

Once the UI pages are ready, it’s time to see the app in action. We click Preview App to deploy it in Corteza, the open-source platform where Aire apps are hosted. The deployment takes a few minutes, but once it’s done, you can interact with your fully functioning app.

In Corteza, you’ll find your record lists, record pages, charts, and metrics – all automatically generated by Aire. You can further customize the UI by adding elements such as calendars, maps, progress bars, and tabs. Corteza also lets you integrate workflows and connect to third-party data sources for enhanced functionality.

Step 7: Finalizing and Deploying the App

After reviewing the app in Corteza, you can return to Aire’s Builder, which gives you additional tools to fine-tune your app. From here, you can let Aire suggest more modules, fields, and relationships if needed. Once you’re satisfied with everything, deployment is just a single click away.

And that’s it – a fully functional Order Management app built and deployed in less than five minutes. With Aire AI, what once took days or even weeks can now be done in a fraction of the time, freeing you to focus on other important tasks.

Conclusion

The Aire AI app-builder revolutionizes the way we create business applications. By automating the process of generating data models, fields, relationships, and UI pages, it eliminates much of the manual work traditionally involved in app development. Whether you’re a business owner or a developer, Aire provides a fast, efficient way to build customized apps without extensive coding. In just five minutes, you can have a fully functional app ready for use, saving you time and effort.