NovaCommerce

The challenge

Most small shops outgrow a static site the moment they need real commerce: product data, cart logic, checkout and order tracking. The concept is a storefront where the catalog is served by an API, prices are always computed server-side, and the owner gets a dashboard for orders — a clean pattern that can sit in front of any payment provider.

What I plan to build

• Product catalog served by a structured catalog API with search and filtering
• Cart and checkout flow with server-side price validation at every step
• Order management dashboard with status transitions and history
• Payment-gateway integration pattern, documented and isolated behind one module
• CSV import for products with validation and error reporting
• Automated tests for cart, pricing and order state transitions

The principle is separation: the storefront renders, the API decides. Prices, stock and order state are never trusted from the client. The payment integration is isolated behind a single documented module, so swapping providers is a configuration change, not a rewrite.

Schematic mockup drawn in CSS — not a screenshot of a built product.

Status

Concept stage. The API contract, data model and checkout state machine are defined; the build is planned. No real payments are processed in this demonstration.

Next steps: Build the catalog API and the storefront, then the checkout flow and the order dashboard with tests, and publish the working result here.