ShopEase

Full-stack e-commerce application with authentication, product management, and integrated payment gateways.

Technologies Used

About the Project

ShopEase delivers a modern shopping experience through a fully integrated Django-React architecture. It includes secure user authentication, product and inventory management, dynamic cart handling, and payment integration via PayPal and Flutterwave. The platform demonstrates clean API design, responsive frontend integration, and containerized deployment pipelines using Docker on Render for high availability and maintainability.

Key Features

• User authentication and profile management
• Product catalog with search and filtering
• Shopping cart with real-time updates
• Secure payment processing via PayPal and Flutterwave
• Order tracking and history
• Admin dashboard for inventory management

Challenges & Solutions

Integrating multiple payment gateways required handling different API schemas and webhook callbacks. Ensuring cart state consistency across user sessions needed careful session management and database transactions. Building a responsive admin dashboard that worked seamlessly on mobile devices required extensive CSS optimization.

Outcome

ShopEase successfully processed 500+ test transactions with zero payment failures. The platform achieved 99.9% uptime through containerized deployment on Render. User feedback highlighted the intuitive checkout process and reliable payment handling as key strengths.