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Sahaj Rana edited this page Apr 8, 2026
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Multi-tenant e-commerce platform — white-label ready for any brand.
Released: February 2026 – April 2026 The platform evolution. Online payments, a fully live UI editor, over-the-air updates, automated build pipelines, a complete GST engine, and deep white-label customisation for every screen.
- ✅ Reliable live preview — any property change in the editor now reflects immediately in the live preview on both mobile app and web, simultaneously.
- 🏷 Selection label toggle — top-right toggle in the editor canvas hides section-name chips without removing selection borders; preference persisted across refresh and screen changes.
- 🛡 Save guard — "Save & Publish" delays activation briefly after page load, preventing accidental overwrite of saved settings before they finish loading.
- 🧭 Hide, reorder, rename nav items — drag-and-drop list in the UI editor; changes reflected in live preview immediately.
- 🔤 Auto home label — if the Home label is left blank, the app auto-fills the first syllable of the brand name.
- 👁 Context-aware items — nav items for optional features are only shown in the editor when that feature is enabled for the brand.
- 🌫 Blur Background Color — new property controls the gradient background of the branding blur circle; defaults to the brand's light primary colour.
- 🔵 Top Bar Background Color — separate property for the solid background behind the blur gradient, editable alongside Blur Strip Color.
- 🛒 Floating "View Cart" bar — appears automatically on mobile when items are in the cart; hidden in desktop view.
- 🎨 Full theming — background colour, border, border radius, shadow, width (%), alignment (Left / Center / Right), bar height, and bottom padding all configurable.
- 👁 Preview mode toggle — bar shown in the editor via a visibility toggle, independent of actual cart state.
↕️ Bottom padding — the padding value propagates to all pages where the bar appears.- Default: 96% width, 8 px bottom padding; 100% = full-bleed.
- 🖥 Desktop price section — Add to Cart button colour, border, radius, width, height, font; variant selector border, fill, text colours and radius. All independently configured.
- 📱 Mobile sticky bottom bar — bar height, border radius, shadow; show/hide variant dropdown; dropdown fill, border, text, font size, height, width; Add to Cart button colour, border, text, font, width, height. Default border radius: 12 px.
- 🖱 Tap-to-add fixed — Add to Cart button on mobile web now correctly receives tap events.
↕️ Vertical centering — both sides of the bottom bar vertically centred regardless of bar height.- 🔤 Per-element font sizes — individual font-size properties for all text elements in the variant selector.
- 📋 Cart item row — background, text colours, quantity button colours, border radius.
- 🧮 Cart summary section — per-row colour properties for subtotal, discount, delivery, GST, and total rows.
- 💳 Checkout section — button colour, text, radius, border; address selector text/icon colours; payment mode selector colours, border, and radius.
- 📌 Sticky checkout bar — checkout button and address row stick to the bottom of the screen on mobile.
- 🔤 Button labels — "Tap to pay" (online) / "Tap to pay — COD" (cash); consistent across mobile app and web.
- 🖼 Cart preview page — dummy cart with mock products for live UI editing; empty cart state togglable as a contextual section.
- 📋 Plans page — new screen added to the bottom of the admin left panel showing all subscription tiers.
- 🅘 InstrumentSans typography — plans screen uses InstrumentSans as the font family throughout.
- 🔀 Single / Multi-seller toggle — slider switches between single-seller and multi-seller marketplace pricing.
- 🔗 Compare Plans — links to the public pricing comparison page.
- 🔍 Empty state on load — search screen immediately shows a placeholder illustration and helper text instead of an infinite loading state before the user has typed anything.
- 🗂 Full theming — grid columns, background colour, icon size, label colour, card style, and spacing all configurable from the UI editor.
- 📱 Card-based mobile lists — Porter and Sellers app list screens render readable mobile card layouts instead of horizontal-scrolling data tables.
- 🔵 Ad Click ID tracking — click ID from Meta ad links captured on admin panel load and sent with the registration event, enabling accurate ad-to-signup attribution.
- 🟢 Browser ID tracking — browser identity from Meta Pixel stored and sent alongside the click ID at registration for server-side deduplication and improved conversion accuracy (~9% improvement).
- Both tokens cleared after successful registration (one-time use).
- 💸 Two GST modes —
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Mode A (
order-level): flat GST % added on top of the order total. -
Mode B (
product-based): GST already baked into the product price; shown as informational only, never double-counted.
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Mode A (
- 🧮 Per-item GST rates — each product or part carries its own GST rate; falls back to the store-wide setting when absent.
- 📦 Immutable order snapshots — delivery cost, GST mode, and per-item rates are locked into every order at creation time so historical orders never recalculate incorrectly.
- 🚚 Configurable delivery fee — delivery fee read from store settings; never hardcoded.
- 🔢 Buyer GST number on invoice — buyers can enter their GSTIN; it prints on the generated invoice.
- 📊 Kit/bundle GST — kit totals correctly respect the active GST mode.
- 🔐 Staff login — username + password login path for non-owner staff accounts (sub-admin, delivery admin).
- 🔍 Google sign-in — Google sign-in connected; new accounts auto-created, existing accounts prompted to sign in.
- 💾 Session persistence — admin session restored on page refresh; no re-login required.
- 📱 Responsive admin layout — panel adapts to mobile and tablet widths; sidebar collapses on small screens.
- 🌐 Dynamic favicon — admin fetches the brand favicon from store settings and swaps it at runtime.
- 🔖 Vendor terminology — "Seller" consistently renamed "Vendor" across all UI text.
- 🎨 Live UI theming — admins configure per-section styles from the editor; all apps fetch and apply them on launch automatically.
- 🔤 Dynamic fonts — font family configured per brand; applied at runtime in both the mobile app and web with no app update required.
- 📐 Global spacing & typography — one section controls section spacing and font sizes globally across the app.
- 🃏 Product card theming — border radius, image height, padding, title/price colours all configurable per brand.
- 🗂 Category grid theming — icon size, label colour, column count, and background colour from the admin editor.
- 🖼 Live preview — admin UI editor shows a web preview that updates in real time as properties are changed; no page reload needed.
- 🧰 Section selection highlight — clicking a section in the preview outlines it clearly for editing.
- ✏️ Section navigator — left panel lists all editable sections; right panel shows properties for the selected one.
- 🛩 Over-the-air updates — app supports patch delivery without an app store review cycle; minor fixes ship in minutes.
- 🔄 Automated build pipelines — Android + iOS builds automated for all apps across all brand variants.
- 📲 Zero-touch white-label builds — app identity configured at build time; no manual setup required per brand.
- 🧾 Payment Gateway integration — online payment collection integrated end-to-end; handles success, failure, and back-press edge cases correctly.
- 💳 Cash on Delivery — COD toggle at checkout; buyer selects COD or online from a dropdown selector.
- ⚡ Real-time payment verification — payment status updates in real time after the payment callback; no polling needed.
- 🧾 Buyer invoice — buyers can view and download their invoice from order details.
- 🆔 Clean order ID display — internal suffixes stripped before any order ID is shown to users.
- 🛒 Enhanced empty cart — ongoing orders displayed inline when the cart is empty so buyers always have context.
- 📧 Transactional notifications — email + push notification sent to buyer on order dispatch and delivery confirmation.
- 🌐 New brand onboarding — additional white-label brands onboarded with independent configurations and app icons.
- 🚀 Multi-brand automated deployment — a single script builds the web buyer app and deploys it to each brand's separate hosting; no manual setup required.
| Apps | 4 mobile apps (Buyer, Sellers, Porter, Super Admin) + web buyer |
| White-label brands | 6 independent brands on one platform |
| Themeable sections | 15+ sections fully configurable via the live UI editor |
| Payment methods | Online Payment Gateway + Cash on Delivery |
| OTA updates | Patch delivery — ship fixes without app store review |
| GST engine | Two modes, per-item rates, immutable order snapshots |
| Ad attribution | Click ID + Browser ID tracking on registration |
Released: May 2025 – December 2025 The foundation release. Core shopping experience across mobile and web, multi-vendor marketplace, delivery management, and white-label multi-brand support.
- 💰 Finance screens — sellers and delivery drivers each have an earnings dashboard showing total, pending, and paid amounts.
- 🚚 Full delivery lifecycle — Accept → En-route → Delivered flow with customer contact integration.
- 📱 Seller app polish — order list, fulfilment actions, and product status chips refined.
- 🖼 Brand logo management — admins can upload and manage their store logo directly from the Settings page in the Super Admin panel.
- 📦 Per-brand companion apps — Delivery and Seller apps now support separate per-brand variants with independent signing.
- 🎠 Slider / banner improvements — home screen banner carousel performance and visual polish improved.
- 🧩 Kits in Super Admin — admin can create Kit bundles (sets of parts), set auto-pricing from part costs, attach entities, and preview kit builds.
- 📝 Rich-text descriptions — rich HTML editor integrated for product part descriptions.
- 🏷 Product entities — custom attributes (e.g. "Engine Type", "Fuel Grade") attachable to any product; filterable in the buyer app.
- 🗂 Entities screen — full fetch, add, edit, delete flow in the admin left panel.
- ⚙️ Auto-price calculator — kit price auto-computed from constituent part prices with manual override.
- 🛍 Kits tab in buyer — dedicated home screen tab showing kit bundles; buyer selects parts to build a kit.
- 🚚 Delivery driver app — dedicated app for delivery staff: order assignment, real-time status updates, and customer contact.
- 🔔 Dual notification system — seller notified on new order; driver notified on assignment; buyer notified on dispatch and delivery.
- 📦 Background notifications — notifications processed correctly even when the app is closed.
- 📊 Import/Export complete — admin can bulk-import the full product catalogue and bulk-export for offline editing.
- 🆔 Order ID uniqueness — order IDs incorporate a per-brand identifier to prevent cross-client collisions.
- 🔄 Pull-to-refresh — all list screens across admin and buyer support pull-to-refresh.
- 🎨 Per-brand app variants — buyer app builds a separate variant per brand with independent app IDs, icons, and signing keys; fully configurable with no manual changes per brand.
- 🔑 Signing key management — separate signing keys for each brand across Buyer, Delivery, and Seller apps.
- 👨💼 Multi-tenant admin — Super Admin panel identifies brands at runtime; one admin panel serves all brands.
- 🛠 Admin product management — product search, sort, and edit flows stabilised across all brands.
- 📤 Import / Export (beta) — product import via CSV/Excel started for the admin panel.
- 🧹 Shared foundation — common components, services, and helpers shared across all four apps; an improvement in one place benefits all apps instantly.
- 🔄 API & profile fixes — profile update flow stabilised; API response handling hardened.
- 🏪 Sellers app — standalone app for vendors: add/edit products, manage inventory and stock.
- 📦 Bulk orders — B2B bulk order flow for wholesale buyers.
- 🧩 Parts & kits in buyer — buyers can browse and order parts through a Kit → Parts hierarchy.
- 🔐 Phone & email OTP authentication — sign-up and sign-in with OTP verification, end-to-end.
- 🏠 Home screen — category grid, product listing with tab-based browse, and top bar.
- 🛍 Product detail page — image gallery, variant selector, and Add to Cart.
- 🛒 Cart screen — item listing, quantity controls, and checkout entry point.
- 🔍 Category browse — per-category product listing screen.
- 👤 User profile — profile setup, preferences, and address management.
- 🔔 Push notifications — order event notifications.
- 🏗 Multi-app platform — four apps (Buyer, Sellers, Delivery Driver, Super Admin) launched together as a unified platform from day one.
Built with ❤️ by the Expendefy team.