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Commerce + Back Office

A store your accountant will love.

The problem#

Selling online is the easy half. Any template gives you a storefront and a payment button. None of them give you what happens next: a compliant tax invoice with a gap-free number, a purchase order to your supplier, a record of what was actually received against it, a batch you can trace when someone asks, and a straight answer about who owes you money.

So brands end up with a pretty shop bolted to a spreadsheet, and the spreadsheet is where the business actually lives.

The approach#

One system, both halves. In front: a storefront with a catalogue, cart, payments and a journal, art-directed rather than templated. Behind it: vendors, purchase orders, goods receipt and rejection notes, raw material intake with traceability lots, consumables stock, GST tax invoices numbered gap-free per financial year, bills, payments, and a finances view with proper ageing.

It was built for a real food brand, with real compliance requirements, which is why the unglamorous parts are the ones that work best.

How you get it#

As a template adapted to your brand: your products, your photography, your GSTIN and invoice series, your bank details, deployed to your own hosting. What you see here is the shape; the contents become yours.

[ how it arrives ]

Three ways to get it.

  • Template

    The base you see here, adapted to your business — your branding, your workflows, your compliance details — and deployed to your infrastructure or mine.

  • Custom

    Built around your problem from the start, using these parts where they fit.

[ requirements ]

What you'll need.

PlatformWhat you need
CustomersAny modern browser — the storefront is public
Your teamA browser; the back office is web-based
HostingYour own hosting account, or mine
PaymentsA Razorpay account in your business’s name

[ licensing ]

What you may do with it.

The adapted build is yours: your hosting, your payment account, your customer data, and the source. No revenue share and no per-order fee — I am not a middleman in your sales.

[ questions ]

What people ask.

Are the invoices actually GST-compliant?

Yes — proper tax invoices with a gap-free number series per financial year, your GSTIN and HSN codes, generated as PDFs from the system rather than typed up afterwards.

Can I use my own payment provider?

Razorpay is wired in and used for the reference build. Another provider is a change I can make during the adaptation.

What if I do not have product photography yet?

The design accounts for that — image slots degrade honestly rather than showing broken frames. Photography can arrive after launch without a rebuild.

Does it handle purchases as well as sales?

Yes, and that is the unusual part. Vendors, purchase orders, goods receipt, rejection notes, raw material lots and consumables stock are all in the same system as the storefront.

[ talk to me ]

Want Commerce + Back Office shaped around your business?

Tell me how you work today. If this is the right starting point I’ll say so, and if it isn’t I’ll tell you that instead. You’ll be dealing with me directly — the person who wrote it.

[ adjacent ]

Closer experiments.