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Abstract
In recent times, people have lost their lives due to the consumption of expired products bought from stores because of the inability of these stores to detect expired products on their counter and show glasses. This drags the name of these companies to mud, hence the choice of this innovation. This project is aimed at developing an alert system which notifies shop owners and managers of products and goods which are about to expire in their business domains. The researcher developed a product expiration system that manages products’ production dates and their expiration period in a computerized manner. The Application program interface (API) of the system was designed and coded in Visual Basic 2010 programming languageoperational tool that were executed using System Analysis and Design Methodology (SSADM); while MySQL was used at the backend, integrated with the Personal Home Page (PHP) scripting language which controls the expiry alert Short Message Service (SMS). The system was tested in windows 10 and it performed creditably well. The results from the system include an expiration schema that has the ability to send notifications about goods that have a month to expire. Keyboard: Product, Expiry, Computerized, System, SMS