🛍️ ShopEase — Django E-Commerce Store

A full-featured e-commerce web application built with Django (Python) backend and HTML/CSS/JavaScript frontend.

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✨ Features

Feature	Details
🛒 Shopping Cart	Session-based (guests) + user-linked carts with auto-merge on login
📦 Product Catalogue	Categories, search, filtering, stock management
🔍 Product Detail	Full info, related products, quantity selector
📋 Order Processing	Checkout → order confirmation → order history with status tracking
👤 User Auth	Register, login, logout, profile with shipping address
🗄️ SQLite Database	Products, Users, Profiles, Carts, Orders — all stored
🛠️ Admin Panel	Full Django admin at /admin/

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🚀 Quick Setup

1. Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Run database migrations

python manage.py migrate

3. Seed sample data (products + admin account)

python seed_data.py

This creates:

• 12 sample products across 5 categories
• Admin account: admin / admin123

4. Start the development server

python manage.py runserver

Open http://127.0.0.1:8000 in your browser.

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📂 Project Structure

ecommerce_project/
├── ecommerce/               # Django project settings
│   ├── settings.py
│   └── urls.py
├── store/                   # Main app
│   ├── models.py            # Database models
│   ├── views.py             # All view logic
│   ├── forms.py             # Registration, profile, checkout forms
│   ├── urls.py              # URL routing
│   ├── admin.py             # Admin configuration
│   └── context_processors.py
├── templates/
│   ├── store/               # HTML templates
│   └── registration/        # Auth templates
├── static/
│   ├── css/style.css        # Complete design system
│   └── js/main.js
├── media/                   # Uploaded product images
├── seed_data.py             # Sample data loader
├── requirements.txt
└── manage.py

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🔑 Admin Panel

Visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/ and log in with admin / admin123.

From admin you can:

• Add/edit/delete products and categories
• Upload product images
• View and update order statuses
• Manage users

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📸 Adding Product Images

1. Go to /admin/ → Products → select a product
2. Upload an image in the Image field
3. Images are stored in media/products/

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🗺️ URL Map

URL	Page
/	Home / featured products
/products/	Product listing with filters
/products/<slug>/	Product detail
/cart/	Shopping cart
/checkout/	Checkout (login required)
/orders/	Order history (login required)
/orders/<id>/	Order detail
/register/	User registration
/login/	Login
/profile/	User profile
/admin/	Django admin

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🛠️ Customisation

• Add payment gateway: Integrate Stripe or Razorpay in views.py → checkout()
• Email notifications: Configure EMAIL_* settings and send on order creation
• More categories: Add via admin panel or seed_data.py
• Production: Set DEBUG=False, use PostgreSQL, configure ALLOWED_HOSTS