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Building Professional E-Commerce for the Trades Sector

Trade and DIY businesses need more than a simple shop. Here’s how we delivered a full store and admin console with a pragmatic monolith.

Building Professional E-Commerce for the Trades Sector

The challenge

Businesses in the trades and DIY space need a professional online store and a reliable admin back-office—without the cost and complexity of an over-engineered platform.

The solution

We built CraftCommerce: a customer-facing store plus a complete admin console for catalog, orders, and operations—tailored to how trade businesses actually sell.

Architecture

A well-structured monolith with Angular, Spring Boot, and MySQL. For this product scope, a single deployable system was faster to ship and simpler to operate than premature microservices.

Business results

An end-to-end store and admin ready for day-to-day operations—clear ownership of the catalog, orders, and customer journey in one place.

Takeaway

Choose architecture for the problem. When domains are cohesive and the team is small, a clean monolith often beats a distributed system you don’t need yet.

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