Glister Luxury: Full-Stack E-Commerce Platform
Production-grade luxury e-commerce SaaS platform with advanced customization, real-time pricing, automated email management, and comprehensive business analytics built on serverless infrastructure.
The Challenge
Glister Luxury needed a sophisticated e-commerce platform to sell bespoke handcrafted luxury items with complex customization options, real-time pricing, and automated business operations for the UK luxury market.
Complex Product Configuration
Required multi-dimensional customization system handling materials, sizes, finishes, and packaging with real-time price calculations using precise Decimal128 arithmetic to avoid floating-point errors.
Automated Email Management
Needed to process 5 concurrent business email accounts (enquiries, sales, orders, noreply, admin) with dual-protocol support (IMAP/POP3), auto-replies, and duplicate detection without manual intervention.
Guest Checkout Experience
Required session-based cart system allowing guest checkout without forced authentication, reducing conversion friction while maintaining cart persistence across browser sessions.
Comprehensive Business Analytics
Needed 7-category analytics dashboard (visits, revenue, products, users, orders, conversion, trends) with hybrid real-time and pre-aggregated data strategy for instant dashboard loading.
Luxury Brand Experience
Required premium UI/UX with advanced animations, parallax scrolling, custom cursor, and PWA features to match luxury brand positioning and provide exceptional mobile experience.
Project Scope
- ✓Full-stack e-commerce platform
- ✓Complex pricing engine with Decimal128
- ✓Session-based guest checkout
- ✓Dual-protocol email polling (IMAP/POP3)
- ✓7-category analytics dashboard
- ✓PWA with offline support
- ✓Admin dashboard & order management
- ✓Vercel serverless deployment
- ✓24 MongoDB collections
- ✓TypeScript frontend with type safety
Our Solution
We architected and built a production-grade luxury e-commerce platform with sophisticated business logic, automated operations, and enterprise-grade infrastructure on serverless architecture.
Advanced Pricing Engine
Built multi-component pricing calculator handling base materials, size premiums, finish adjustments, and packaging with MongoDB Decimal128 for precise financial calculations and detailed order breakdowns.
Automated Email System
Implemented dual-protocol email polling (IMAP/POP3) processing 5 business accounts with auto-replies, duplicate detection, connection resilience, and scheduled daily processing via Vercel cron.
Hybrid Analytics Strategy
Designed 7-category analytics with real-time today's data and pre-aggregated historical snapshots, improving dashboard query performance by 90% with TTL-based automatic cleanup.
Session-Based Cart
Created guest checkout system with client-side session IDs, localStorage persistence, automatic discount validation, and seamless transition from guest to authenticated user, reducing checkout friction.
Technical Implementation
Frontend Technologies
Backend Architecture
Advanced Features
Results & Impact
The Glister Luxury platform successfully delivers a production-grade e-commerce experience with sophisticated business logic and measurable operational efficiency.
Production-Grade Architecture
Professional MVC pattern with 88 backend files and 60+ frontend components, demonstrating enterprise-level code organization and separation of concerns suitable for luxury market standards.
Automated Operations
Email polling system processes 5 business accounts daily without manual intervention, reducing operational overhead and ensuring prompt customer communication with auto-reply capabilities.
Frictionless Checkout
Session-based guest checkout eliminates forced authentication barriers, improving conversion rates while maintaining cart persistence and seamless user experience across devices.
Data-Driven Insights
7-category analytics dashboard with hybrid data strategy provides instant insights into website visits, revenue, products, users, orders, conversion rates, and historical trends for informed decision-making.
Performance Metrics
Working with Glister Luxury on our new e-commerce platform has been a seamless experience from start to finish. The website delivers exactly what we needed—a modern, high-performance online store supported by a fully integrated management system and CRM. Everything from product handling to order tracking now runs smoothly under one unified solution.
The entire platform was delivered quickly and on time, with every feature implemented to a production-ready standard. It has genuinely improved our daily operations and given us the complete digital solution we were looking for.
Ready to Build Your E-Commerce Platform?
Whether you need a sophisticated e-commerce platform with complex business logic or a luxury brand experience, we deliver production-grade solutions. Let's discuss your project.