Scaling a multi-vendor marketplace to 10,000 daily orders

The Challenge

ShopWave was a growing marketplace struggling with a legacy platform that could not handle increasing traffic. Page load times exceeded 5 seconds during peak hours, the checkout flow had a 70% abandonment rate, and sellers had no self-service tools to manage their inventory or orders.

Our Solution

We rebuilt the entire platform on a modern architecture using Next.js for the storefront and a microservices backend. The new checkout is a single page with guest checkout support. We built a seller dashboard for inventory, order tracking and analytics, and implemented a smart search engine with filters and recommendations. A Redis-based caching layer handles traffic spikes gracefully.

Key Features Delivered

• Multi-vendor marketplace with seller dashboards
• One-page checkout with guest support
• Smart product search with filters
• Real-time order tracking
• Automated email and SMS notifications
• Coupon and flash-sale engine
• Multi-currency and multi-language support
• Admin analytics dashboard