🧾 Automated Mess Billing (Django)

A Django-based web application developed for the Women's Hostel in my college. It manages student data, tracks hostel attendance, and generates mess bills based on student absences. This helps reduce manual billing errors and streamlines hostel administration.

🎯 Key Features

• ✅ Student Information Management
  Store personal, and room-related details of hostelers.

• ✅ Room Allocation
  Assign and manage hostel rooms for students.

• ✅ Attendance Tracking
  Track daily presence or absence of students.

• ✅ Mess Bill Generation
  Automatically calculates mess bills based on attendance records (absences reduce the bill amount).

• ✅ Admin Dashboard
  Easy-to-use interface for hostel staff to manage all operations.

• ✅ Image Optimization
  Student profile images are auto-converted to WebP format and standardized dimensions.

🧠 Technologies Used

• Python 3.10+
• Django 5.x
• SQLite (for development)
• Pillow – for image processing
• HTML/CSS – for templates
• Virtualenv – for dependency isolation

📜 License

This project is for academic use only. If you use or extend it, please give proper credit.

🙏 Acknowledgments

• The Django open-source community

• My college hostel office staff for feature input