Abstract

Supermarkets in Uganda simplify the life of many Ugandans by providing easy and quick
shopping day and night; some even operate 24 hours a day. This has prompted the
supermarkets in Uganda to provide and improve shopping. The purpose of the study was to
design an online mobile shopping application that is used by people to shop using their
mobile phones at any time of their convenience. The online mobile application was designed
to focus on improving shopping services to avoid congestion in supermarkets in Uganda.
Uchumi supermarket Kabalagala branch was taken as a case study where both the user and
the clients were interviewed for the purpose of requirement elicitation. The online mobile
shopping application system at Uchumi supermarket in Uganda has been designed to work
with the Information technology unit or department (IT) to manage clients’ accounts and
details, and the databases of the supermarket. Operating system (xp service pack 2 onwards)
DBMS that will manage the database activities. Php and Java, to allow program access to data
in the database