NON-PROFITS CHARITY DONATION SYSTEM USING MOBILE COMPUTING - UniSZA

1.4 ScopeThe scope of this project are mainly focuses on the development of application fordonors out there who are intended to donate things but do not have any idea where todonate it. Scope for this application are specifically for Terengganu’s state only interm of listed welfare home. There are also two main users for this applicationdenoted by admin and donor.1. Admin-The role of an admin is login account of the application to make anychanges by reading, updating or deleting the application.2. Donor-The donor can donate the item by clicking based on the category andsearch any listed welfare home.1.5 Limitation of WorkBehind every sophisticated application, there must be obstacle and limitationto achieve it. There are also go for this application, below are listed the limitation ofthis application:I.II.Might not involving banking method if the donors donate in term of money.Donation item are specifically for food, stationery and clothes only.4

1.6 Expected OutcomesThe expected outcomes for this Charity Donation Application after completingthe development is user can easily make a donation only by using mobile application.Donor also can save their time to make a donation. These results represented toachieve the objectives project which is to design mobile application of non-profitcharity donation. Results obtained will assist donors to donate the donation item in acorrect channel without any cheating issues.5

CHAPTER 2LITERATURE REVIEW2.1 IntroductionThis chapter continue with the studies of non-profits charity donation systemusing mobile computing. As we know that mobile computing is too mainstreamnowadays. By using mobile computing, donors can make a donation on anytime oranywhere. Back then, there are also traditional way to make a donation. According toWiepking (2006) ,the author finds that age to positively affect donations toorganisations using appeal letters as a fundraising method in the Netherlands. Incontrast, the author also finds that older people have a lower probability of donating toorganisations soliciting by means of door-to-door collections. As the years passing by,all the traditional method can be diminished. Security and the ways for donors todonate are more efficient by using mobile. Donors do not have to worry about thesecurity of their donation's item.6

2.2 Information SystemInformation system is used for this development of charity donationapplication. This mobile computing is categorized as information system is because ofthe information given to donors. Most of this application is all about information fordonors regarding the application or welfare home. Information system is one of thebest system because it can provide useful information and user which is donors itselfcan interact all the time. Besides, information system are also be able to storeinformation despite capable of data processing and responding to its end user byproviding the answers to all set of queries. The main purpose of information systemsare to provide the right information to the right people at the right time. It is used totrack, store, manipulate and distribute the information from gathered data toappropriate persons when necessary. Based on Knight & Silk, (1990) they stated thatinformation systems should best interacts and communicates with the end user inorder to provide the accurate required information.In order to get information system, there are several steps that need to beachieved. First, we must know what data used for the application. Data don't becomeinformation until we have successfully linked meaning to them. If we fail to buildcommon meaning and understanding, data remain just a bunch of unconnected events.In this application, data needed like all the categories types are very important notonly for the information for donors but also that need to be keep for database.Information given in the application for the donors must be knowledgeable andunderstandable by the user. If not there will be a miscommunication between user andapplication.There are also a few of advantages of implementing information system in themobile application. Advantages that can be obtain if implementing information system7

are in terms of communication. By the use of mobile computing, communicationbetween donors and recipient become easy, quicker and cheaper. Besides, availabilityalso is one of the advantages. It is because information system made it possible fordonors to donate anytime and anywhere. Lastly,creation of new types of jobs .It is oneof the best advantages of information systems is the creation of new and interestingjobs. Computer programmers, systems analyzers, hardware and software developersand web designers are just some of the many new employment opportunities createdwith the help of information technology (IT).2.3 Mobile ComputingThis application is using mobile computing as a platform for user which isdonors to donate item. Mobile computing is a device that allow people to access dataand any information in anytime and anywhere. It also can be called as a humancomputer interaction. Mobile computing can be connectivity, social engagement andpersonalization at the same time. Platform use are exclusively for android user whichis as Android Based. Mobile computing also can increase in productivity. Mobiledevices can be used out in the field of various companies, therefore reducing the timeand cost for donors and themselves. This would be one of the main advantages ofmobile computing, it is not restricted to one location in order for donor to donate theitems.8

2.4 Application and system for donationThere are few system and application that already available for donors to donate.But not all the available system and application are user-friendly. So, CharityDonation Application comes out with the solution which is user-friendly. There aresome adding features for this application in order to ease the donors to make adonation.2.4.1 Existing Application (DONATE.OM)There are some application exist to assist donors out there to donate.Unfortunately, the scope is out of bound. As an example, this application is exist inthe play store for user to download but it is not really a friendly application which iscan confused the user to donate. Everyone can reach this application but not all peoplecan donate. Language preferred also not recommended to our country because thereare only two choices which are English and Arabic. This application is only focusedon certain country that used English and Arabic as their third or daily language.Figure 2.1: Interface of Donate.Om Application9

2.4.2 Existing System (Aman Palestin)This system is created by non-government organization for people to donate tothose country that are in trouble especially in Palestin. They will collect all thedonation at one time and will give when the times come. Unfortunately, this kind ofdonation channel only exist in web that might cause trouble for donor to donate. If thiskind of donation exist in term of mobile computing, this will ease the donor to donateanytime and anywhere because the size of mobile itself is small and can be carriedanywhere.Figure 2.2 : Interface of Aman Palestin System10

2.4.3 Existing System (Telekung Project)‘Telekung Project’ is another channel for donor to make a charity. But, thisproject exists only on advertisement in media social. There is no specific applicationor system for this project. In order to donate, some traditional user might think this isnot a legitimate channel for them to donate. They might be worried that their donateditems are not going to receive by a correct person. So, they make a decision by notmaking any donation. By developing this mobile application, all the donor’s doubtfulcan be get rid because they already know that this is a true channel to donate anythingthat they want.Figure 2.3 :Interface of Telekung Project11

2.4.4 Comparison of existing system and applicationThere are three existing application that have been developed which related todonation application or system. Each of this application and system have their ownpro and cons. All this application and system are compared according to specificcharacteristics. The three main existing application and web that currently availableare ‘Telekung Project’, ‘Aman Palestin’ and Donate.OM. Among all the existingsystem and application, Charity Donation Application proposed the mostcharacteristic needed by the donor such as it can be either in web based, ubiquitouswhich is donor can donate anytime and anywhere by using mobile. Next characteristicis various item can be donate .Charity Donation Application give donor choiceswhether to donate food, stationery or clothes. And lastly is, donate according categorycharacteristic. For this characteristic, donor has to choose the category based on theitem that they are going to donate. Below are the details of comparison table.12

Table 2.1 :Comparison of characteristic between the system or application.CHARACTERISTIC NAPPLICATIONWEB BASEDNOYESNOYESUBIQUITOSNONOYESYESVARIOUS ITEMNOYESYESYESNONOYESYESCAN BE DONATEDONATEACCORDINGCATEGORYBased on categorization above, it can be conclude that Charity DonationApplication is the most systematically application so far. It is because this applicationis proposed based on the characteristic that need by the user. Example characteristicthat need by users are as web based, ubiquitous, various item can be donate anddonate item according category. So, Charity Donation Application is the mostpreferable application for donors.13

2.5 Related StudiesTable 2.2 :Comparison of related research studies.AUTHORYEARTITLESUMMARIZATIONWAY OFIMPLEMENTEDBryanG. 2009HughesMETHOD,Information about the non-Text messageSYSTEM ANDprofits may be dis played invia shortARTICLE FORsome embodiments of themessageDONATIONSinvention.After selecting aserviceON MOBILEnon-profit icon, a user can(“SMS) to theCOMMUNICAmake a donation of anaddressTIONindicated kind and amount toDEVICESthe non-profit represented bythe non profit icon. In someembodiments, after pledginga monetary donation, thecommunication provider tothe mobile communicationdevice collects the donationvia the communicationprovider's bill and gives atleast a portion of the donationto the indicated non-profit.George W. 2005M. MullSYSTEMSAn electronic donor directedSystem debitANDcharitable donation Systemcard.14

METHODSdesigned specifically for theFORWWW/Internet wherebyCHARITABLEdonors can direct theDONATINGdisposition of donations.Participating charitableinstitutions can identify goodsand Services needed anddonors can donate money tobe applied for those Specificneeds by the institutions.Kevin2010SYSTEM ANDA system and method forOnlineJeromeMETHOD FORdonations using onlineGamingGORMLEYDONATIONSinteractive games with,etUSINGplayers using social networks.al.(2010)ONLINEUsers play games whereinINTERACTIVEwinning results in othersGAMESdonating to their selectedrecipient, such as a cause,charity, school.Based on the studies that been done recently, we can conclude that not allexisting application and web are suitable for all stages of age. As an example, forsystem and method for donation using mobile online interactive games is using onlinegaming method in order to gain the donation. Thus, this method is not suitable for allstage of ages seems its only can be played by the teenager but not for folks. It is the15

same goes for the method of using text message via short message service. Thismethod is not so reliable today because people nowadays only using Whatsappapplication for texting. So, Charity Donation Application is proposed to ease alldonors at all stage of ages who wish to donate and donor-only can download CharityDonation Application in Playstore.2.6 SummaryTo conclude, a literature review gave the details and some research on therelated studies. Using mobile computing is also one of an effective way for donors outthere to donate instead of using a system. Despite that, it is also a nowadays trend thateveryone is using mobile in their daily life. So, this will not become a problem for theuser to use the mobile and admin no need to prepare the user’s manual to guide themon how to use.Because people nowadays are already in IT generation.16

CHAPTER 3METHODOLOGY3.1 Methodology for Mobile AppsWaterfall methodology is going to use in order to complete this CharityDonation Application. Waterfall methodology is the simplest methodology amongothers. There are six phases used in this methodology which are requirement, design,implementation, testing deployment and maintenance.3.1.1 Phase 1: RequirementRequirement needed in this application is gathered. The purpose of gathering theinfo is to develop the application successfully and satisfied the user when they use thisapplication. The development of application are based on available application andthere is an improvement in this Charity Donation Application.Most requirementsneeded are as follow:I.II.Available WebsitesAnalysis available application3.1.2 Phase 2 : DesignAfter collecting the requirement needed, the next step is designing theapplication. This phase plays an important role because of the way the design ispresented can attract the user. Otherwise, this application is not interesting for the user17

to use. A context diagram is developed in this phase. After that data flow diagramlevel 0 and 1 is generated. Lastly, the entity relationship diagram (ERD) is developed.3.1.3 Phase 3 : ImplementationThis system is mobile application based. In order to run this application,Google Chrome and server are used. Charity Donation Application is developedusing Android Studio. Database software used is MySQL and XAMPP as server.3.1.4 Phase 4 : TestingIn this phase, each level is testing. If there is any error during this phase ,design activity will be performed again. Alpha testing is conducted during thisphase. In Alpha testing, developer is present while testing so the problems willrecorded and errors encountered during testing. Alpha testing also close for public.3.1.5 Phase 5 : DeploymentThe system is deployed at the user side, after it has undergone through testing.After the deployment of the system, routine maintenance work is carried out. Once thesystem has been deployed, in case the user asks for any changes or enhancements,then the entire process is restarted.3.1.6 Phase 6 : MaintenanceOnce the application is in good state, it will show that the application satisfiedthe requirement. Free from bug and user can use this application.18

3.2 Project RequirementProject requirement consists of two parts which are software requirement andhardware requirement. All these requirement tools are very important in order todevelop successful application.3.2.1 Software RequirementTable 3.1 below listed type of software needed:Table 3.1: List of software requirementsNO.1.SOFTWARECordovaPURPOSESoftware used to code program of the project.Cordova is use torun and test the application.2.NOTEPAD To code the program and connect application to database.3.XAMPPType of local server used.4.PHPProgramming language used.5.MySQL DatabaseSoftware used for keeping the data6.MICROSOFT WORD Use for documentation of application.20137.GOOGLE CHROMEBrowser to run the localhost and also for searching theinformation.19

3.2.2 Hardware RequirementTable below listed type of hardware needed:Table 3.2: List of hardware ESSORIntel Core i5-7200U CPU @ 2.50GHz3.MEMORY4.00 GB RAM4.OPERATING SYSTEMWindows 105.SYSTEM TYPE64-bit Operating System6.MOBILE PHONENexus 5X7.GOOGLE CHROMEBrowser to run the localhost and also for searching theinformation.20

3.3 Framework And DesignFramework designed below represented the whole Charity Donation Applicationflow.3.3.1 FrameworkFramework is an illustration layered structured which it is represent theapplication flow. There are a few layers need to be done of such as operating systemand network layers. Based on figure 3.1, there are two entities involved which areadmin and donors. Data such as admin details, report details, login details anddonation details which are highlighted in blue arrow in the figure below are storing indatabase. While output such as information, report, login confirmation and donationstatus which are highlighted in pink arrow in the figure below are receiving by adminand donors. After data have been stored in database, all the information are retrieveinto mobile application such as Android Based.Figure 3.1: Framework of Charity Donation Application21

3.4 Process Model3.4.1 Context DiagramFigure 3.2 shows the main process of Charity Donation Application. There aretwo main entities involved which are user and admin. Each of the entities play theirsrole in this application. Admin role are managing the data that given by user such asread, create, update and delete. The data are storing in database. Admin just need tokey in their username and password in order to pass through this application. Admin’sdata inserted into the database.While for the user, the role is to sign up or sign in first. If the user or donor arefirst time visited this application, user must sign up their details first to be keep indatabase. Otherwise, they just insert their username and password. Then, there areinterface of grouping of item according to category that user need to choose whichcategory are belong to their donation items. Next, go through choosing welfare homeand set date, time.Figure 3.2: Context Diagram for Charity Donation Application.22

3.4.2 Data Flow Diagram Level 0Figure 3.3 shows the details of the application. This application carried outfive process altogether .This five processes are include with two entities which aredonor and admin. Then, there are also three data storage for this application that needto be keep in database. Admin play very important role in this application compared

4.13 Command for Charity Donation Application 43 4.14 Command for Charity Donation Application 44 4.15 Coding for Charity Donation Application 44 4.16 Coding for Charity Donation Application 44 4.5 Testing 45 4.5.1 Introduction 45 4.5.2 Test Case 4.5.1 Login Admin