Known Merchant
What Say You, Friends? Linking Friendship and Big Data for Local Retail.

Challenge
The Dandy Group launched Known Merchant, a platform to connect local retailers with real time data to make better business decisions. Leading business management, branding, strategy, and product development, Known Merchant is an enterprise software solution and connection point for cloud-based point-of-sale systems.

Applicable to any POS marketplace, Known Merchant first launched in the singular category of wine retail with the mission to build trust with merchants through offering a tool to build better customer relationships.

Goals
Provide a friendly platform for users and merchants to interact through
Provide a platform agnostic interface that would help retailers understand real-time product trends

Action
As a mobile-first platform, Known Merchant offers an innovative, social-driven product leveraging peer-to-peer recommendations to create a social interaction between merchants and customers, while providing dashboard analytics and insights.