Last week at Knowledge I partnered up with Robert Fedoruk and Travis Toulson for the CreatorCon Hackathon. We had a blast and I think we did pretty well for only having 8 hours to put the application together. Our application was a real-time point of sale system on ServiceNow.

In many organizations, a good percentage of employees will still approach the help desk directly without going through self-service. This forces the help desk to manually create the requests on the spot. There isn’t really a quick and easy interface for this, so having a point of sale system would greatly expedite the process for face-to-face transactions with the help desk.

We built our application using Service Portal making use of record watchers and integrated it with the native mobile app for bar code scanning. It uses the Service Catalog and with no custom tables needed. The application was built with touch screens in mind with support for gestures. And best of all the whole application operates across multiple devices all in real time.

When the transaction is complete, it sends a push notification receipt to the users mobile device.

Could your organization use an application like this? If so I would love to hear about it. It’s not just limited to point of sale, could also be used for inventory management, supply chain management, warehouse management, etc.