Multi-store commerce operations, unified.
A Laravel-powered control plane orchestrating stores, products, orders, payments and notifications across a multi-tenant marketplace.
- Role
- Full-Stack Engineer
- Timeline
- Multi-phase, production
- Industry
- Marketplace / E-Commerce
- Status
- Live
What this system is
Locate is a Laravel-based admin platform designed to manage multiple stores from a single dashboard. The system allows platform owners and administrators to control stores, store owners, products, orders, and user roles through a clean and scalable architecture.
What we needed to solve
Managing multiple stores, admins, products, and orders without a centralized system leads to scattered data, manual workflows, and limited visibility for platform administrators.
How we shipped it
Developed a Laravel-based admin system that centralizes store management, product control, and order tracking within a role-based dashboard, providing better organization and easier system administration.
How the system is wired
A three-tier system: a Laravel admin dashboard, a REST API consumed by three native mobile clients, and a Firebase + Telr integration layer for notifications and payments. All clients share a single authoritative database with role-aware authorisation.
Laravel Blade + role-based access for platform operators.
Versioned endpoints serving customer, delivery, and admin mobile apps.
React Native customer / delivery / admin apps over the shared API.
Firebase push, Telr payments, and broadcast pipelines.
Engineering choices
In the wild
The mobile ecosystem
Native shopping experience: discover stores, browse, checkout via Telr, track orders live.
Driver companion with live order assignment, navigation handoff, and proof-of-delivery.
Operations on-the-go: live KPIs, approvals, broadcasts, and incident triage.
Services and data
Multi-role authentication with policy-driven authorisation.
Stores, store-owners, products, categories, media handling.
Order lifecycle, status transitions, and notification triggers.
Targeted push notifications across customers, drivers, and admins.
External surfaces
Hosted checkout + webhook reconciliation for orders.
Push delivery with topic + token targeting.
Public REST surface consumed by all three companion apps.
What admins control
Real-time KPIs across stores, orders, and revenue.
Onboarding, approvals, suspension, and store-level analytics.
Per-store inventory, categories, and media.
Lifecycle view from cart to delivery, with payment reconciliation.
Composer for targeted notifications and announcements.
Hard problems, handled
Managing multiple stores, admins, products, and orders without a centralized system leads to scattered data, manual workflows, and limited visibility for platform administrators.
Developed a Laravel-based admin system that centralizes store management, product control, and order tracking within a role-based dashboard, providing better organization and easier system administration.
Maintaining performance under realistic production load.
Indexed queries, paginated lists, image optimisation, and lean client bundles kept the platform responsive end-to-end.
Built to stay fast
Design and interaction
Ready to ship and operate
What it does
Why we chose what we chose
Built on Laravel, PHP, MySQL.
Mature ecosystem, strong typing where applicable, and predictable performance characteristics for the workload.
REST-first integration boundary.
Keeps clients (web, mobile, partner) decoupled and trivially swappable without coupling to a single transport.
Results
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