Our work

E-commerce replatform

A custom Laravel commerce platform for a retailer whose catalogue and pricing rules had outgrown packaged software.

Client
Specialist retailer
Type
E-commerce
Year
2023

The challenge

The retailer sold configurable products with customer-specific pricing and volume rules that the packaged platform could only express through a stack of plugins. Each one slowed the store down, broke on update, and made the checkout harder to trust. Stock and pricing were re-keyed from the ERP by hand.

The technical solution

Rather than add another plugin, we rebuilt the commerce logic as a custom application and kept the parts of the business that are genuinely standard standard.

  • Laravel commerce core modelling product configuration, contract pricing and volume rules directly
  • Vue.js product configurator with live pricing and validation against real stock
  • Two-way ERP integration for catalogue, stock and order status, replacing manual re-keying
  • Checkout rebuilt with recoverable payment handling and clear failure states
  • Performance budget enforced in CI, so the catalogue stays fast as it grows

Tech stack used

  • Laravel
  • Vue.js
  • MySQL
  • Ubuntu

The outcome

  • Pricing and configuration rules expressed in the platform rather than worked around
  • Catalogue, stock and order status synchronised with the ERP automatically
  • A checkout whose failure states are handled rather than hidden
  • A plugin stack removed, and with it a recurring source of breakage on update

Platforms in daily use.

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