eCommerce · India

ShopNest: One Inventory, Every Channel — Scaling a D2C Brand Beyond the Marketplace

A rapidly growing Indian D2C home-and-lifestyle brand was selling through marketplaces, a basic storefront, Instagram, and 12 physical stores — each with its own inventory truth. Festival-season traffic crashed their store twice, and marketplace commissions were eating margin. The founders wanted a brand-owned omnichannel platform that unified inventory, survived Diwali-scale traffic spikes, and turned first-time buyers into repeat customers. Devlex Infotech delivered ShopNest as their full commerce backbone.

ShopNest
2.7xGrowth in Direct Online Revenue
41%Higher Repeat Purchase Rate
99.99%Uptime Through Festival Sales
Timeline7 Months
Team10 Members
PlatformsiOS, Android, Web
IndustryRetail & D2C eCommerce
RegionIndia
Challenges → Solutions

How We Solved It

Challenge

Inventory Chaos Across Five Channels

Stock counts lived separately in marketplace panels, the web store, and store POS systems. Overselling during sales events forced cancellations that damaged marketplace ratings and burned ad spend on orders that could not ship.

Solution

Real-time Omnichannel Inventory Hub

We built a central inventory service that syncs stock in real time across the web store, Amazon, Flipkart, Instagram Shopping, and all 12 POS terminals. Channel-level safety buffers and automatic delisting at low stock eliminated overselling entirely.

Challenge

Storefront That Collapsed Under Festival Traffic

The legacy monolith crashed at roughly 8,000 concurrent users — a fraction of Diwali campaign traffic. Every outage during a sale translated directly into lost revenue and a flood of support tickets.

Solution

Headless, Auto-scaling Commerce Architecture

ShopNest runs as a headless commerce stack — a Next.js storefront on a CDN edge backed by containerized microservices that scale horizontally on demand. The platform absorbed a 14x Diwali traffic spike with sub-second page loads and zero downtime.

Challenge

No Customer View Beyond the Last Order

With purchase history fragmented across channels, the brand could not segment customers, personalize offers, or run an effective loyalty program. Retention marketing was reduced to blanket discount blasts.

Solution

Unified Customer Data and Loyalty Engine

Every order from every channel now feeds a single customer profile with RFM segmentation, powering personalized recommendations, WhatsApp win-back journeys, and a points-based loyalty program redeemable online and in stores.

Delivered

Notable Features Shipped

  • Headless storefront with sub-second page loads on mobile
  • Real-time inventory sync across marketplaces, web, social, and POS
  • Unified customer profiles with RFM segmentation
  • Omnichannel loyalty program with in-store redemption
  • One-click checkout with UPI, cards, wallets, and COD intelligence
  • Returns and exchange portal with automated refund workflows
Engineering Stack

Technology Behind ShopNest

Front End

  • Next.js
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind CSS

Back End

  • Node.js
  • NestJS
  • GraphQL
  • RabbitMQ

Database

  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Elasticsearch

Cloud & DevOps

  • AWS
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Cloudflare
Business Impact

What It Meant For The Client

Direct channel revenue overtook marketplace revenue within a year, restoring margin the brand had been surrendering in commissions.
Overselling cancellations dropped to zero, repairing marketplace seller ratings and reducing customer support volume.
Festival sales became a growth event instead of an infrastructure emergency, with marketing free to push campaigns without fear of outages.
Unified customer data turned retention into a science — segmented WhatsApp journeys now drive a meaningful share of monthly orders.
“Last Diwali we did 14 times our normal traffic and the site did not blink. Devlex built us infrastructure we thought only the big marketplaces could afford.”
R Rahul M.Founder · India
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