Expiry Notification System

A desktop-based inventory management system...

A desktop-based inventory management system that notifies small business owners of products nearing expiry. Built with Python, PyQt5, and SQLite, this tool provides a simple GUI to manage and monitor product inventory.

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📦 Features

• Add, search, and delete product entries
• Tracks product expiry dates
• Desktop notification alerts (now powered by plyer for cross-platform support)
• Simple and intuitive PyQt5 interface
• SQLite-powered data persistence

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🚀 Run via Docker

docker pull techceo/expiry-notifier:latest

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On Windows (VcXsrv required):

$env:DISPLAY="host.docker.internal:0.0"
docker run -it --rm -e DISPLAY=$env:DISPLAY techceo/expiry-notifier

On Linux:

xhost +local:docker
docker run -it --rm -e DISPLAY=$DISPLAY -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix techceo/expiry-notifier

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🐙 GitHub Repository 🔗 https://github.com/TechCeo/Expiry-Notification-System

🐳 Docker Hub Repository 🔗 https://hub.docker.com/r/techceo/expiry-notifier

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🛠 Tech Stack

• Python 3.11

• PyQt5

• SQLite

• Plyer (replaced win10toast for cross-platform notifications)

• Docker

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👤 Author

• Yusuf Adamu (TechCeo)

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