Order-to-cash lifecycle
A six-stage flow — new, accepted, invoiced, dispatched, paid, completed — with invoice capture, payment recording, and cancellation that returns stock automatically.
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Case study
ODA
A mobile-first order management and field-sales platform running a national salon-products distribution network across India — designed, built, and operated end to end by ARK Angel Labs.
Distribution
Field sales
Mobile web
Client project
Visit app.odazone.com ↗
Overview
One system for every party in the chain
ODA runs the day-to-day commerce of a salon-products distribution business: salons order stock, distributors and warehouses fulfil it, and the sales hierarchy above them — area managers, regional managers, finance, head office — tracks every order from creation through acceptance, invoicing, dispatch, and payment. Every screen and every query is scoped to the user's role and territory, and the whole thing runs in any phone browser off a ten-digit mobile number and a PIN: no app store, no installs, usable on low-end field devices.
The platform also carries the operational periphery that usually lives in separate tools — salon onboarding, inventory, trainer scheduling, demo-kit ordering, field expense claims, and sales analytics. ARK Angel Labs designed and built it for a client and has operated it in continuous production since early 2024.
8 rolesfrom salon owner to head office, each with its own view
42 regionsof territory-mapped field sales across India
6 stagesof order lifecycle, visible to every party at once
Since 2024in continuous daily production use
Capabilities
What the platform does
Territory management
Every salon is mapped to its distributor, area manager, and regional manager across 42 sales regions — and each manager's app shows only their own patch.
Salon onboarding
Field staff create a salon with GST and PAN details and provision the owner's login in one flow, guarded against duplicate phone numbers.
Inventory & dispatch
Stock on hand per source, movement history, a dispatch workflow, and automatic stock return when orders are cancelled.
Training operations
Salons request on-site trainings, head office assigns trainers around their blocked dates, and demo kits are ordered with quantity limits on restricted products.
Field expenses
Expense reports with photographed receipts uploaded from the phone, reviewable centrally and exportable to Excel.
Insights & rankings
Interactive sales dashboards, brand and region summaries, manager leaderboards, and spreadsheet export on most screens.
Role-scoped access
Eight roles, scoped in the database on every query — not just hidden in the interface — so an out-of-territory record simply doesn't exist for that user.
In the product
A closer look
Engineering
How it's built
- Lightweight by intent. Three no-framework, no-build single-page apps — login, mobile field app, desktop back office — load fast on low-end Android devices in the field.
- Authorization at the data layer. Business logic and role-based scoping live in roughly 130 stored procedures, so territory boundaries survive any client, not just the UI.
- Continuous delivery. The front end deploys automatically on every merge, with a typical deploy of about ninety seconds.
- Audited operations. Server-side logging of user and order actions gives support teams a full trail — "what happened to this order?" is answered by typing its number.
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