POUR ELLE
E-commerce / Digital Commerce
Project Overview
Full digital commerce platform: catalogue, orders, cart, currency conversion, international delivery, WhatsApp assistance and a customer review system.
The Problem
POUR ELLE needed more than a product catalogue: a real commerce operation covering ordering, international customers and post-purchase support, not just a showcase site.
The Objective
Build a full digital commerce platform covering the entire customer journey, from browsing to international delivery.
My Approach
- •Product catalogue with search
- •Order management and shopping cart
- •Multi-currency support (XOF, EUR, USD)
- •International delivery
- •WhatsApp customer assistance
- •Customer review system
- •Bilingual FR/EN storefront
Technology
Architecture
A Node.js/Express backend (deployed on Render as a Web Service, not a static site) serves a plain HTML/CSS/JS storefront from a public/ folder, plus a separate admin area. Data lives in a local SQLite database rather than a hosted database service. Authentication uses hashed passwords and JWT sessions; file uploads go through Multer; Helmet, CORS and rate limiting protect the API.
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Results
After several rounds of adjustments with the client, she was happy with the final product.
Challenges
Making the storefront properly responsive, absorbing extra pages the client kept adding beyond the original scope, and integrating payment-method APIs.