Case Study

Craftangels

2024 Live 8 months 2 Devs Ecommerce Marketplace

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Overview

A multi-vendor e-commerce marketplace connecting sellers with buyers with product management, shopping cart, checkout, vendor management, and real-time communication.

Business Challenge

Handmade sellers were stuck on single-vendor shops and social media — no multi-vendor marketplace, no real-time buyer chat, and clunky checkout.

Why It Was Built

Built a multi-vendor marketplace for handmade products with seller dashboards, real-time buyer-seller chat, Razorpay payments, and a mobile app.

Target Users

Artisans and handmade-product sellers wanting their own storefronts, plus buyers looking for unique handmade goods.

Architecture

Laravel 12 marketplace core with per-seller dashboards and commission splits; Razorpay for payments; Socket.IO for buyer-seller chat; React Native app mirrors the web marketplace.

Deployment

Laravel app on VPS with MySQL and a Node socket server; React Native Android app distributed alongside.

Scalability

Vendor-isolated data scales as sellers join; chat offloaded to socket server; API-first for mobile parity.

Challenges

• Single-vendor limitation
• No real-time communication
• Basic checkout
• Limited mobile experience

Solutions

• Multi-vendor marketplace
• Real-time communication
• Multiple payment options
• Mobile app

Summary

Multi-vendor handmade marketplace with Razorpay payments, live buyer-seller chat, and mobile app.

Technologies Used

Laravel 12 PHP 8.2+ MySQL React Native 0.82.1 Razorpay Socket.IO WebRTC

Third-Party Integrations

• Razorpay payments
• Socket.IO chat
• Multi-vendor dashboards
• React Native app
• Order & commission engine

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Results & Metrics

Expanded seller base

Better buyer-seller communication

Flexible payments

Mobile accessibility

Sellers get their own dashboard and buyers can chat before buying — a real marketplace, not a listing page.

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CraftAngels Team

Product

Project Timeline

Phase 1: Core platform foundation

Phase 2: Product management

Phase 3: Shopping cart

Phase 4: Checkout integration

Phase 5: Vendor management

Phase 6: Real-time communication

Phase 7: Mobile app

Phase 8: Push notifications

Measurable Outcomes

A working multi-vendor marketplace with live chat, payments, and both web and mobile storefronts.

Designed & developed by Ankush Gautam

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