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Service 05

Commerce & Platforms

Storefronts, POS systems, and marketplaces engineered for real transaction volume and real edge cases.

Commerce systems fail in the details — the refund that doesn't quite reconcile, the discount that stacks wrong, the checkout that times out during a spike. We've built storefronts, point-of-sale systems, and multi-vendor marketplaces, and we design for those edge cases from the start rather than patching them after a support ticket.

Whether you need a custom storefront, an in-house POS system, or a marketplace connecting multiple sellers, we build on top of proven payment infrastructure while keeping the parts that matter to your business fully custom.

What's Included

  • Custom storefronts & checkout flows
  • Point-of-sale & inventory management systems
  • Payment gateway integrations (Stripe, PayPal, and regional providers)
  • Multi-vendor marketplace architecture
  • Order management & fulfillment systems
  • Reconciliation & reporting dashboards

Our Approach

We map the full transaction lifecycle — including refunds, disputes, and failed payments — before writing checkout code, so the unhappy paths are designed on purpose instead of discovered in production.

checkout.config.js
1const providers = {
2  payments: ["Stripe", "PayPal"],
3  platforms: ["Shopify", "WooCommerce", "Custom POS"],
4  database: ["PostgreSQL"],
5};

Where commerce builds actually break — and how we avoid it.

Checkout looks simple until real money, real retries, and real edge cases hit it. This is what we design around from the start.

01

Idempotency Keys on Every Charge

A retried payment request can never double-charge a customer — every mutation carries a unique key the gateway checks first.

02

Card Data Never Touches Our Servers

Tokenization and hosted fields keep raw card numbers with the payment provider, cutting PCI compliance scope dramatically.

03

Webhook Signature Verification

Every payment callback is cryptographically verified — an attacker can't fake a "payment succeeded" event by guessing your webhook URL.

04

Inventory Drift Alerts, Not Just Logs

Reconciliation jobs actively alert when system-of-record inventory disagrees with reality, instead of quietly writing to a log nobody reads.

05

Explicit Refund & Dispute State Machine

Every order has a defined set of valid states and transitions — "partially refunded after a dispute" is a designed case, not a bug report.

06

Load-Tested Checkout Paths

The checkout flow specifically — not just the homepage — is load-tested against realistic sale-event traffic before it matters.

Signs this is the service you need.

"Checkout abandonment is high and we don't know why."

Often a friction or trust issue in the flow itself — we instrument first, then fix.

"Refunds are a manual nightmare."

A sign the unhappy-path logic was never really designed — very fixable.

"Inventory numbers don't match reality."

Usually a sync issue between systems that don't talk to each other reliably.

"We're not confident we'd survive a sales spike."

Load testing against your actual checkout flow answers this before it's a crisis.

About this service.

Can you build on Shopify / WooCommerce instead of custom?+

Yes — we'll recommend custom vs. platform based on your actual requirements, not a one-size-fits-all pitch.

Do you handle PCI compliance considerations?+

Yes — we design payment flows to minimize your compliance burden, typically by keeping card data with the payment provider.

Can you migrate us from our current platform?+

Yes, including data migration planning so historical orders and customers carry over cleanly.

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