Automated Billing system is a system that allows the process of paying and receiving bills online. The aim of this study is to design and implement an Automated Billing System for Supermarket. In achieving this aim, the following specific objectives were laid out as follows to develop an application software that will provide monthly, weekly and yearly economic / financial reports to the end-user and make an easy to use environment for users and customers.
The motivation that led to the implementation of the proposed system is that the existing system, collection of customer’s information and items details was done manually and it is time consuming. The existing system uses so many papers and even a small transaction require many papers to fill. Also, there is difficulty in reports generation in the existing system.
The methodology adopted in this study is the object oriented analysis and design methodology (OOADM) which is a technical approach for analyzing and designing an application or system by applying object throughout the software development process. The programming language used is HTML, CSS, JAVASCRIPT, PHP, SQL and JQUERY. The reason why web programming languages was used is because, it is platform independent and it is a web based application. This project will be of benefit to Enterprises and Shopping Malls / Supermarkets. The expected result is an Automated Billing System for Supermarket that will process customer’s selected items in a supermarket, and the system will generates an accurate bill for payment purpose.