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Anon E-Commerce

Fashion & Apparel E-Commerce Platform

B2C apparel storefront and multi-role operations platform featuring size-by-colour variant control, flash-sale countdown scheduling, deterministic coupon and gift card precedence, Stripe/COD checkout, and courier tracking.

Client
Anon Clothing Brand
Industry
Fashion & Apparel / Retail
Domain
B2C E-Commerce
Region
India
Project Type
Custom Client Project (Storefront + Admin)
Kode Company branding — Build. Solve. Evolve. (Anon E-Commerce)

Project Overview

Anon E-Commerce is a custom B2C fashion storefront and administrative application developed for the Anon clothing brand in India. It unifies consumer shopping journeys—collection discovery, variant selection, promotions, checkout, and returns—with dedicated operational controls for apparel retail.

Built on a Next.js frontend and Express.js/MongoDB backend hosted on AWS, the platform enforces variant-level inventory integrity across size-colour matrices, fixed pricing calculation precedence across flash sales, coupons, and gift cards, and strict order state transitions from checkout through fulfillment or size exchange.

Business Challenges

Fragmented storefront, inventory, and promotional management

Handling apparel catalogues, variant stock, and discount rules across disconnected tools increased operational overhead.

Conflicting totals when flash sales, coupons, and gift cards overlap

Inconsistent order of discount calculations created discrepancies between cart previews, payment charges, and partial refunds.

Overselling popular size/colour combinations during seasonal campaigns

High-traffic promotional bursts caused race conditions on limited apparel SKUs without checkout reservations.

Developer bottlenecks for routine storefront merchandising

Updating homepage banners, featured drops, and scheduled campaigns required code deployments instead of admin tooling.

Solution & Engineering Approach

A unified storefront and role-based admin platform coordinating SEO-optimized collection merchandising, atomic variant reservations, deterministic pricing precedence, verified-buyer reviews, and Courier/COD fulfillment.

End-to-End Platform Workflow

  1. 1Merchandising, Variant Setup & Banner Scheduling
  2. 2Collection Browsing, Filtering & Wishlist
  3. 3Cart Merge, Variant Reservation & Fixed-Order Pricing
  4. 4Stripe Online Checkout or Cash on Delivery Confirmation
  5. 5Transition-Enforced Packing & Delhivery Tracking
  6. 6Proportional Returns, Size Exchanges & Gift Card Refunds

Key Capabilities & Functional Modules

Apparel Merchandising & Variant Discovery

  • Organizes seasonal collections, categories, fabric care notes, size charts, and distinct SKUs per size-by-colour combination.
  • Supports fast filtering across size, colour, price, rating, and collection alongside persistent wishlists and verified-purchaser moderated reviews.
  • Self-service homepage banner, promo block, and campaign scheduling with automated expiry hiding so non-technical marketers control storefront merchandising.

Deterministic Pricing, Coupons, Gift Cards & Flash Sales

  • Enforces a strict five-step calculation order—Flash-Sale/Base Price -> Coupon Discount -> Shipping -> Gift Card payment deduction -> Stripe/COD balance—preventing cart vs refund discrepancies.
  • Supports percentage, fixed, free-shipping, and BOGO coupons guarded by atomic global and per-user redemption counters.
  • Models non-guessable gift cards as split-payment methods (preserving revenue accounting) with partial balance reuse and rate-limited validation.
  • Runs server-timed flash sales with live countdowns and optional SKU quantity caps, automatically re-validating expired promo prices prior to payment capture.

Checkout Reservation, Fulfillment & Size Exchanges

  • Guest carts merge seamlessly into customer accounts upon login while temporary checkout locks guard popular apparel sizes during promotional surges.
  • Supports cards, UPI/digital methods via Stripe, and rule-based Cash on Delivery alongside Delhivery shipping labels and customer tracking views.
  • Enforces strict step-by-step order status transitions, proportional coupon-adjusted refunds on partial returns, gift-card-first refund allocation, and size-exchange inventory verification.

Role-Based Store Administration

  • Separates administrative access across Super Admin, Product/Catalogue, Inventory, Order/Support, and Marketing Manager roles with real-time per-request permission checks and activity audit logs.

User Roles & Operational Responsibilities

Customer & Guest Shopper

Explores collections, saves wishlists, applies coupons or gift cards, completes Stripe or COD checkout, tracks deliveries, and initiates returns or exchanges.

Catalogue & Inventory Managers

Maintain apparel attributes, size charts, size/colour SKUs, CSV stock updates, and out-of-stock/back-in-stock alerts.

Order & Support Managers

Process fulfillment transitions, inspect return requests, coordinate size exchanges, and handle refunds.

Marketing & Super Admins

Schedule banners, flash sales, coupons, and gift cards within governance guardrails while administering RBAC roles and permissions.

Architecture Rules & Edge-Case Resilience

  • Order snapshots preserve item prices, applied promo terms, and shipping addresses immutably even if customers later delete saved addresses or admins adjust catalogue pricing.
  • Scheduled background jobs automatically start/end flash sales, expire timed gift cards, and release abandoned checkout reservations.
  • Decimal currency representation, UTC server timestamps, idempotent payment webhook checks, and reconciliation tasks protect order accuracy during flash-sale traffic spikes.

Confirmed Technology Stack

Frontend & SEO

  • Next.js (SSR & SEO Storefront + Admin Application)

Backend & Data

  • Express.js
  • REST APIs
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • JWT

Payments, Shipping & Messaging

  • Stripe (Online + COD Workflows)
  • Delhivery
  • Twilio

Cloud Infrastructure & Jobs

  • AWS (Hosting, S3 Media Storage, CI/CD)
  • Cron Jobs

Intended Brand & Storefront Value

Intended architectural and operational benefits based on system design goals

  • Consolidates merchandising, variant inventory, order processing, and promotional campaigns into one cohesive retail system.
  • Gives marketing teams autonomy over banners, flash sales, coupons, and gift cards without engineering overhead.
  • Protects profit margins and revenue reporting accuracy via transparent calculation precedence and stock reservations.
  • Enhances buyer conversion and post-purchase confidence through clear tracking, size charts, and streamlined size exchanges.

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